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English
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In “The Exquisite Book of Paper Flower Transformations”, artist Livia Cetti ups the ante with a host of grander and more intricate flowers and projects-more blooms, more petals, stronger stems, and bigger, bolder arrangements! Cetti will teach you how to play with size, shape, color, and texture to create twenty-five vibrant single stems in a variety of natural shapes-globes, spikes, bells, saucers, rectangles, cones, and arcs-including hydrangeas,...
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Great Courses volume 3
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English
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Look first at three physical tools that you can use right away to become a more effective birder. Consider how familiarity with the shape or silhouette of bird families, as well as bird size, aid you in focusing in on exact species. Study the color factors of pigment and keratin, as they produce the dazzling range of bird coloration, and investigate color as an identification tool.
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linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Explore Painter. Learn how to use particle brushes and dynamic speckle brushes; control size, shape, density, and randomness of brush effects; and paint physics-inspired elements.
Particle and dynamic speckle brushes are new to Painter 2015 and 2016. They allow artists to create sweeps of "particles" (speckles, lights, dust, etc.) across the canvas with a single stroke. They are physics inspired, designed to mimic real-world particles as well as...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Covers 825 species, including all the native and naturalized trees of the United States and Canada as far west as the Great Plains. Descriptions present details of size, shape, growth habit, bark, leaves, flowers, fruit, flowering and fruiting times, habitat, and range maps for native species, as well as specially commissioned artwork, up-to-date taxonomy and names, information on the most recently naturalized species, keys to leaves and twigs, and...
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Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Master the age-old art of Japanese gift wrapping with this easy-to-follow papercrafting book. "Perfect Gift Wrapping Ideas:101 Ways to Personalize Your Gift Using Simple, Everyday Materials" turns a time-honored art form into a paper crafter's dream. This is where traditional presentation makes room for whimsy and originality, resulting in a personal touch that becomes part of the gift. From purpose-made paper to wax paper, and from ribbon to a newspaper...
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