Product Description: Pulling together only the best projects from this bestselling author’s three previous books on illumination, this compendium instructs designers on a range of exquisite designs in watercolor and gouache to enhance calligraphy, texts, and a host of other decorative items...read more

Product Description: Lauded as "a transcendent realist" and "a poet of the ordinary," Keith Carter is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose work has been shown in over one hundred solo exhibitions in thirteen countries. At first finding his subjects in the familiar, yet exotic, places and people of his native East Texas, Carter has since expanded his range not only geographically, but also into realms of dreams and imagination, where objects of the mundane world open glimpses into ineffable realities...read more

Product Description: Beginning in December of 1941, the San Francisco Bay area was fully involved in the changes brought about by World War II. Although these are not battle stories, they are war stories, set on the home front during those days after Pearl Harbor when life changed for soldier and civilian alike...read more

Product Description: Over 150 recipies

Product Description: Before lead pencils were invented, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci drew on specially prepared paper with slender rods of solid silver. The resulting line, created by a thin coating of silver being deposited on the surface of the paper, is fine and delicate, with a faint pearly sheen, and should not smudge or rub out...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Patricia Carter has again created a stunning collection of decorative design ideas, this time to illuminate lettering. There are nine complete alphabets offered, including Parchment, Classical Collection and Entwined Roses.

Introduces useful materials and techniques, discusses design, color, and gilding, and shows examples of ornamental borders featuring flowers, grasses, ferns, banners, ribbons, ropework, and stylized leaves