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Get inspired and learn from great art with JUST DRAW BOTANICALS and JUST DRAW FINELINER ART!
Hone your artistic skills with creative tips and accessible advice, providing both practical information and inspiration in our new Just Draw series!
Just Draw Botanicals and Just Draw Fineliner Art present collections of dozens of beautiful images by contemporary artists from around the world. Dip-in for advice or flick through the pages for inspiration. Each image is accompanied by a short introduction, information on the approaches, techniques and tools used, and useful tips. This is the perfect guide for artists and art lovers alike.
Just Draw Botanicals
Beautiful Botanical Art, Contemporary Artists, Modern Materials
Just Draw Botanicals presents a collection of 90 beautiful botanical images by contemporary artists from around the world. Dip-in for advice or flick through the pages for inspiration. Each image is accompanied by a short introduction, information on the approaches, techniques and tools used, and useful tips. Advice covers composition, colour, painting techniques and tips for working with plants. This is the perfect guide for artists and art lovers alike.
About the author:
Helen birch is an art tutor and blogger and has been an art lecturer at several institutions across the UK. She is the author of the highly popular drawdrawdraw blog. Her books include Freehand: Sketching Tips and Tricks, Just Add Watercolour and Drawn From Life
Just Draw Fineliner Art
Incredible Illustrations Crafted With Fineliner Pens
Just Draw Fineliner Art presents a collection of more than 85 beautiful blackwork images by contemporary artists from around the world. Dip-in for advice or flick through the pages for inspiration. Each image is accompanied by a short introduction, information on the approaches, techniques and tools used, and useful tips. Learn about stippling and hatching to produce immensely detailed drawings. This is the perfect guide for artists and art lovers alike.
About the author:
Liam Carver is a self-taught artist and illustrator from the south coast of England. His work focuses on minimal monochrome inkwork widely inspired by nature, shapes and the outside world.
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Alleviate stress, foster creativity, and commune with nature with MEDITATIVE STONE ART
Art and nature mindfully combine in Meditative Stone Art, publishing this April from Rock Point! Alleviate stress, foster creativity, and commune with nature while creating beautiful art with Meditative Stone Art.
Let artist Maria Mercedes Trujillo Arango guide you on a meditative art journey, for beginner and expert crafters alike, as she shares her unique and elegant designs for decorating stones. Meditative Stone Art includes 44 illustrated step-by-step projects—21 calming mandala designs and 23 nature-inspired designs, including:
- Single-color mandalas
- Multicolor mandalas
- Flowers
- Leaves
- Butterflies
- Moths
- Beetles
- Fish
Chock-full of beautiful photography and easy-to-follow instructions to get your designs just right, along with drawing tutorials and information about gathering the perfect stones, tools and supplies, and art techniques, Meditative Stone Art will have you feeling inspired, focused, and relaxed in no time.
The author
Maria Mercedes Trujillo Arango is the author of Rock Point’s Meditative Mandala Stones kit and is a self-taught illustrator-crafter from Bogota, Colombia, who now calls New Zealand home. She likes to draw, paint, and embroider. In 2001, she became interested in mandalas and started drawing them and learning more about their history, psychology, and symbolism. Since 2011, she has combined her love of mandalas with painting beautiful stones she has collected.