A Beginner’s Guide to Colored Pencil Drawing: Realistic Drawings in 14 Easy Lessons!

Learn to create vividly realistic colored pencil drawings in just a few lessons!

A Beginner’s Guide to Colored Pencil Drawing provides instructions for creating brilliantly realistic drawings featuring rich shadows, bright highlights, smooth gradients, and glowing colors. Learn at your own pace over the course of 14 easy-to-follow lessons!

Each lesson includes blank sketch of the subject so you can focus on coloring techniques, and Faber-Castell color codes are provided so you can faithfully reproduce the example illustrations. Each lesson also includes a tear-out practice sheet with the full sketch so you can dive right in and try your hand at rendering these objects yourself! The practice template sheets are also available online to download and print at home.

This book has everything you need to master a dynamic art that is affordable and satisfying. Take the 14 lessons in 14 days, like a crash course in colored pencil mastery—or take your time. Colored pencils are a favorite medium of hobbyists and increasingly embraced by fine artists as well!

Phosphorescence by Julia Baird

“Both timeless and timely, this is a book of wisdom and wonder” (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March), a deeply personal exploration of what can sustain us through our darkest moments.

After surviving a difficult heartbreak and battle with cancer, acclaimed author and columnist Julia Baird began thinking deeply about how we, as people, persevere through the most challenging circumstances. She started to wonder, when we are overwhelmed by illness, loss or pain, or a tragedy outside our control: How can we keep putting one foot in front of the other? Baird went in search of the magic that fuels the light within—our own phosphorescence.

In this stunning book, she reflects on the things that lit her way through the darkness, especially the surprising strength found in connecting with nature and not just experiencing awe and wonder about the world around her, but deliberately hunting it, daily.

Let's Colour - Mythical Ctreatures, 2nd Edition, 2023

With intricate designs, this meditative art therapy book invites you to unleash your creativity and find inner peace. Let's color our way to tranquility and discover the captivating world of mythical creatures.

DK: Knowledge Encyclopedia: The World As You’ve Never Seen It Before

Change the way you see the world, with a groundbreaking visual approach to the wonders of our planet, in this fully updated edition.

Explore the universe, from the inside of an atom to black holes, then discover the explosive science behind a fireworks display.

New Scientist International Edition - 01 June 2024

Overview: New Scientist covers the latest developments in science and technology that will impact your world. New Scientist employs and commissions the best writers in their fields from all over the world.

Our editorial team provide cutting-edge news, award-winning features and reports, written in concise and clear language that puts discoveries and advances in the context of everyday life today and in the future.