Coloring is a great way to relax and spark your inner creativity. From esteemed 21st-century artist Laurel Burch comes collection of perforated postcards featuring her most renowned artwork to color and send to friends and family or keep for yourself. Printed on high-quality, heavyweight paper for use with colored pencils, markers, gel pens, watercolors, and more, this small-format book invites you to step into Laurel's vivid world of decorative cats, mythical creatures, and human figures!

Artist Laurel Burch has influenced a generation. Now, you can own her fantastical designs in this long-awaited coloring book! Break out the pencils and color original drawings straight from the artist's sketchbook, including never-before-seen designs. The album contains Laurel Burch's signature fauna and flora, with plenty of decorative cats, mythical creatures, and human figures. Recreate the vivid palette of her paintings, as shown on the inside cover, or have fun adding your own flair!

Fill your home with beautiful quilts and crafts! 25 fun, creative projects.

An overview of the art historical antecedents to virtual reality and the impact of virtual reality on contemporary conceptions of art. Although many people view virtual reality as a totally new phenomenon, it has its foundations in an unrecognized history of immersive images. Indeed, the search for illusionary visual space can be traced back to antiquity. In this book, Oliver Grau shows how virtual art fits into the art history of illusion and immersion. He describes the metamorphosis of the concepts of art and the image and relates those concepts to interactive art, interface design, agents, telepresence, and image evolution. Grau retells art history as media history, helping us to understand the phenomenon of virtual reality beyond the hype. Grau shows how each epoch used the technical means available to produce maximum illusion. He discusses frescoes such as those in the Villa dei Misteri in Pompeii and the gardens of the Villa Livia near Primaporta, Renaissance and Baroque illusion spaces, and panoramas, which were the most developed form of illusion achieved through traditional methods of painting and the mass image medium before film. Through a detailed analysis of perhaps the most important German panorama, Anton von Werner's 1883 The Battle of Sedan, Grau shows how immersion produced emotional responses. He traces immersive cinema through Cinerama, Sensorama, Expanded Cinema, 3-D, Omnimax and IMAX, and the head mounted display with its military origins. He also examines those characteristics of virtual reality that distinguish it from earlier forms of illusionary art. His analysis draws on the work of contemporary artists and groups ART+COM, Maurice Benayoun, Charlotte Davies, Monika Fleischmann, Ken Goldberg, Agnes Hegedues, Eduardo Kac, Knowbotic Research, Laurent Mignonneau, Michael Naimark, Simon Penny, Daniela Plewe, Paul Sermon, Jeffrey Shaw, Karl Sims, Christa Sommerer, and Wolfgang Strauss. Grau offers not just a history of illusionary space but also a theoretical framework for analyzing its phenomenologies, functions, and strategies throughout history and into the future.

How artists' magazines, in all their ephemerality, materiality, and temporary intensity, challenged mainstream art criticism and the gallery system. During the 1960s and 1970s, magazines became an important new site of artistic practice, functioning as an alternative exhibition space for the dematerialized practices of conceptual art. Artists created works expressly for these mass-produced, hand-editioned pages, using the ephemerality and the materiality of the magazine to challenge the conventions of both artistic medium and gallery. In Artists' Magazines, Gwen Allen looks at the most important of these magazines in their heyday (the 1960s to the 1980s) and compiles a comprehensive, illustrated directory of hundreds of others. Among the magazines Allen examines are Aspen (1965–1971), a multimedia magazine in a box—issues included Super-8 films, flexi-disc records, critical writings, artists' postage stamps, and collectible chapbooks; Avalanche (1970-1976), which expressed the countercultural character of the emerging SoHo art community through its interviews and artist-designed contributions; and Real Life (1979-1994), published by Thomas Lawson and Susan Morgan as a forum for the Pictures generation. These and the other magazines Allen examines expressed their differences from mainstream media in both form and content: they cast their homemade, do-it-yourself quality against the slickness of an Artforum, and they created work that defied the formalist orthodoxy of the day. Artists' Magazines, featuring abundant color illustrations of magazine covers and content, offers an essential guide to a little-explored medium.

If you want to draw your own blocks in EQ8, this is the book for you! Experienced EQ educator, Kari Schell, takes you step-by-step through each of the drawing styles available in EQ8. You'll learn skills for both pieced and applique drawing while filling your Sketchbook with beautiful blocks! From drawing a simple nine patch to creating a beautiful floral applique wreath, this book will take your drawing skills to the next level!

The coloring pages in this book have been created from charming vintage postcards and artwork. When you color over the various shades of gray, you'll come away feeling like an artist, or at the very least as if you've taken an art lesson. Art teachers, therapists, and community volunteers use this coloring book a resource for experiencing mindfulness. In the Vintage Vibes coloring book series, this is Vol. 5. Perfect for both novice and experienced colorists. Fun & rewarding for all skill levels The hard work of creating light and dark tones to reveal life-like shading has already been done for you by the original artist. Just follow their lead. Take your adult coloring to a whole new level. The result will be masterpieces you'll be proud to share. Make Your Own postcards, instructions included. Full size (8.5"x 11"), full color 74-page interior. 35 unique images featuring nautical scenes, flora, botanicals, and adorable greeting cards.