Art
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Of Wonder & Delight
A Contemporary Fox Tale by Don Harrison Short
The cheeky, curious fox finds boredom in the day-to-day predictability of the forest he knows as home. Despite the admiration of other woodland creatures, he decides to venture far, only to be enamored by bigger animals than himself. The bears...
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Canada Western Landscapes
Through The Years by Carol Elizabeth Cowan
Inspired by a first publishing of Carol Cowan’s paintings, which generated a great deal of interest, this second edition Canada Western Landscapes is a wonderful collection of her work in water colour, multi-media oils, acrylics. With an artistic...
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Collecting and Studying Ship Portraits
by James Shuttleworth
Ship portraits include paintings, prints, and photographs. A ship portrait is often more than just an image of a vessel. This book focuses primarily on paintings and prints, discussing the content of a portrait and how to interpret the...
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Biełarusian Fine Art: Time and Time Again
Origin, History, Discourse, and Biographies by Zina Gimpelevich
It’s hard to imagine feeling a sense of loss for artwork until you become immersed in the stories of the Biełarusian fine artists Dr. Zina Gimpelevich has spotlighted in her newest book. She brought to life artists whose work was curtailed under...
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Gallan
Conversations inspired by Gurmukhi Alphabets by Ameet Gill
This is my artistic approach to creating a Punjabi cultural dialogue with 83 pages of photographed and graphically reproduced mixed media illustrations, artworks and digital works, combined with a hand written and a typed collection of "Gallan"...
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Doodle Caboodle
by Alison Kervin
Get lost in these 50 abstract watercolor paintings by artist Alison Kervin. Add your own creative interpretation to these whimsical colorful pages. Plan your illustration, or let your pen free-flow. Draw vines, lines, flowers, towers, shapes, or...
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The Art of Carol Janeway
A Tile & Ceramics Career with Georg Jensen Inc. and Ossip Zadkine in 1940s Manhattan by Victoria Jenssen
The Art of Carol Janeway portrays the exotic life and artistic career of a woman whose commercial success as a tile decorator and ceramist in New York in the 1940s and later retirement due to lead poisoning offer a fascinating study. Victoria...
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Linear Perspective SIMPLY PUT
The "It Factor" All Too Often Overlooked by Rene Thibault
Whether you’re an artist or designer, student or professional, author Rene Thibault’s practical guide expertly outlines how combining linear perspective with artistic license can be a valuable reference tool in visualizing three-dimensional...
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Prudence Heward
Canadian Modernist Painter by Evelyn Walters
At a time of disdain for modern art and widespread discrimination against women artists, Prudence Heward challenged the conventional in portraits that capture subtleties of emotion and often reflect her own struggles against illness and family...
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Peetakvik
Inuit Arts and Crafts: History for the Future by Ken Crassweller
This is your invitation to find how, during the 1960s and 70s, a settler’s perspective shaped his view of what happened from his firsthand experiences, what he learned and what he did for better or worse. Then, reading on, learn how government...
