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1	Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature more books like this by Andy Goldsworthy add to wishlist Illustrates outdoor sculptures created with a range of natural materials, including snow, ice, leaves, rock, clay, stones, feathers, and twigs. see all copies from £16.35! new only from £24.26! \| first editions
2	I Am an Artist more books like this by Pat Lowery Collins, Robin Brickman (Illustrator) add to wishlist A good read-aloud choice, this nonfiction picture book encourages children to see the world through an artist's eye. In simple words and beautiful pictures, it shows how creativity can be inspired by the world around us. "A gentle, attractive nudge to the creative process . . ".--Kirkus Reviews. Full color. see all copies from £3.08! new only from £3.08! \| signed copies
3	Painting the Spirit of Nature more books like this by Maxine Masterfield add to wishlist Now available in paperback, this bestseller reveals the secrets of capturing the essence of a scene using abstract techniques. Masterfield presents new ways to work in watercolor, from pouring inks and adding opaque lines to using crinkled wax paper as resists and collaging paintings together. see all copies from £31.90! new only from £88.38! \| first editions
4	Art Forms in Nature more books like this by Ernst Heinrich Philip Haeckel add to wishlist Multitude of strangely beautiful natural forms: Radiolaria, Foraminifera, Ciliata, diatoms, calcareous sponges, Tubulariidae, Siphonophora, Semaeostomeae, star corals, starfishes, Protozoa, flagellates, brown seaweed, jellyfishes, sea-lilies, moss animals, sea-urchins, much more. All images black-and-white. see all copies from £4.99! new only from £7.50!
5	Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel more books like this by Ernst Heinrich Philip Haeckel, Olaf Breidbach (Contributions by), Richard Hartmann (Contributions by) add to wishlist The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist. Powerful modern microscopes have confirmed the accuracy of Haeckel's prints, which even in their day, became world ... see all copies from £11.49! new only from £11.49!
6	A walk with me more books like this by Gwen Frostic add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! signed copies \| first editions
7	Painting the Allure of Nature more books like this by Susan D Bourdet add to wishlist Watercolor artists will find it easy to paint realistic, atmospheric nature scenes when artist Susan D. Bourdet takes them under her wing. She starts with the basics of watercolor nature painting, then illuminate the finer points from start to finish. It's just the kind of instruction they're looking for. They'll learn how to: Create a reference ... see all copies from £15.89! new only from £16.50! \| signed copies
8	First Impressions: Sketching Nature in Watercolor more books like this by Edward Norton Ward add to wishlist Focusing on simple and swift sketching techniques, the purpose of this text is to enable any artist to visualize a natural landscape before putting brush to paper. Sections on finding subjects and designing compositions are followed by demonstrations of how to paint certain subjects. see all copies from £9.64! new only from £11.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Painting the Secret World of Nature more books like this by John Agnew add to wishlist To look at John Agnew's work is to enter the mysterious and enchanting world of a forest floor, mountainous cliffs and crags, the heights of a rain forest or the surface of a hidden pond. Each painting draws you in to its unique environment. The lifelike environments Agnew has been so extremely successful in creating in his well-known murals he ... see all copies from £7.49! new only from £12.46!
10	Painting Nature in Pen & Ink with Watercolor more books like this by Claudia Nice add to wishlist Anyone willing to learn can celebrate the wonder of nature with Claudia Nice's techniques for combining pen and ink with watercolor. Offering clear, step-by-step instruction for painting a range of subjects, she focuses on the little details first, from soil and leaves to wildflowers and birds. As artists are guided piece-by-piece through the ... see all copies from £9.66! new only from £16.55! \| first editions
11	Creating Nature in Watercolor: An Artist's Guide more books like this by Cathy Johnson add to wishlist Readers will get to know the basic techniques and materials, then travel through different habitats (forest, water, prairie, meadow, field, roadside, mountain, desert and human), painting plants and animals with their newly acquired skills. Perfect for capturing the glory of the great open sky of the dawn prairie or painting a quick study of the ... see all copies from £9.06! new only from £12.73!
12	Drawing from Nature more books like this by Jim Arnosky add to wishlist This companion volume to the PBS-TV series "Drawing From Nature" represents a "spiritual sharing of ideas and techniques by a gifted wildlife artist" (School Library Journal). Photos and drawings throughout. see all copies from £8.11! new only from £28.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
13	Robert Bateman: An Artist in Nature more books like this by Rick Archbold add to wishlist see all copies from £5.92! new only from £31.78! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Humans, Nature, and Birds: Science Art from Cave Walls to Computer Screens more books like this by Darryl Wheye, Donald Kennedy, Professor Paul R Ehrlich (Foreword by) add to wishlist This book invites readers to enter a two-floor virtual 'gallery' where 60-plus images of birds reflecting the accomplishments of human pictorial history are on display. These are works in a genre the authors term Science Art - that is, art that says something about the natural world and how it works. Darryl Wheye and Donald Kennedy show how these ... see all copies from £16.17! new only from £19.77!
15 view cover	Natural Worlds more books like this by Robert Bateman, Rick Archbold (Text by) add to wishlist Featuring more than 130 dazzling new works of art, this book shows us how Bateman's evocative depictions of birds and animals within finely observed landscapes have redefined wildlife painting. see all copies from £8.52! signed copies \| first editions
16	Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade more books like this by Vincent Scully, Jr. add to wishlist A philosophical and chronological history of architecture examines natural and man-made structures from ancient Greece to present-day Manhattan. see all copies from £4.98! new only from £6.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Two Hour Cross-Stitch: 515 Fabulous Designs more books like this by Patrice Boerens add to wishlist Presents small-scale cross-stitch designs that can be completed in a few hours. There are designs for flowers, trees, animals and letters. Each is illustrated with a colour photograph and easy-to-follow chart for colours and numbers of strands used. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £14.96! \| first editions
18 view cover	A\Fable of Modern Art more books like this by Dore Ashton add to wishlist As Professor Ashton develops the conjectures of her book she reveals the interrelations of literature, music, and art and the basic problems which engage or beset the contemporary artist and those who seek to understand and appreciate contemporary art. see all copies from £5.93! new only from £21.19! \| first editions
19 view cover	Sensitive Chaos(pb) more books like this by Theodor Schwenk, J Collins (Translator) add to wishlist Why does water, in streams and rivers, always take a winding course? Do common principles and rhythms underlie the movement of water, whether it be in the sea or in a plant -- or in the blood of a human being? The laws revealed in the subtle patterns of water in movement are shown in this thought-provoking work to be the same as those perceptible ... see all copies from £14.75! new only from £14.75! \| first editions
20 view cover	Political Landscape: The Art History of Nature more books like this by Martin Warnke add to wishlist Politicians and journalists never tire of referring to "the political landscape". This book takes the well-worn metaphor literally and uses it to show how politicized the real landscape of continental Europe has been for centuries. The author finds his evidence of humanity's intervention in nature in the form of monuments and milestones, gardens, ... see all copies from £5.13! new only from £8.72! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Art of Field Sketching more books like this by Clare Walker Leslie add to wishlist see all copies from £8.93! new only from £29.29! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Parsimonious Universe: Shape and Form in the Natural World more books like this by Stefan Hildebrandt, Anthony Tromba add to wishlist The variety of sizes, shapes, and irregularities in nature is endless. Through illustrations and text, the authors of The Parsimonious Universe describe the efforts by scientists and mathematicians since the Renaissance to identify and describe the basic laws underlying the shape of natural forms. Can one set of laws account for both the symmetry ... see all copies from £15.93! new only from £106.54! \| first editions
23 view cover	Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions more books like this by Mr. Keith Christiansen (Editor), Professor Pierre Rosenberg (Editor), Anna Ottani Cavina add to wishlist The work of the great French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) is most often associated with classically inspired settings and figures depicting solemn scenes from mythology or the Bible. Yet he also created some of the most influential landscapes in Western art, endowing them with a poetic quality that has been admired by artists as different ... see all copies from £26.58! new only from £30.81!
24 view cover	Natural Watercolors: Painting from Nature Made Easy more books like this by Richard Taylor add to wishlist Takes the reader logically through the process of recording a wide range of natural objects and landscapes in watercolour. Taylor demonstrates the gradual development of the painted image with full annotation and working illustrations. He also advises on special techniques and suitable palettes. see all copies from £13.31! first editions
25 view cover	The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design, and Use of Past Environments more books like this by Denis E Cosgrove add to wishlist The Iconography of Landscape draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines across the humanities and social sciences to explicate the status of landscape as a cultural image, 'a pictorial way of representing, structuring or symbolising surroundings'. By applying the art-historical method of iconography - interpreting levels of meaning ... see all copies from £23.79! new only from £23.79!

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	2001 Cross Stitch Designs: The Essential Reference Book by Better Homes and Gardens (Creator) see all from £4.75! new only from £11.71!
	Painting Country Gardens in Watercolor, Pen & Ink by Claudia Nice, International Artist (Editor) see all from £8.84! new only from £9.28!
	Time by Terry Friedman, Andy Goldsworthy (Photographer) see all from £14.02! new only from £21.42!
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