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  • Home Gardener's Garden Design & Planning

    Designing, planning, building, planting, improving and maintaining gardens

    Series series Specialist Guide
    Beginning gardeners and experts alike will appreciate this practical advice on virtually every aspect of gardening—from choosing a plot to selecting flowers and water features. The instructions and advice encompass plans and proven techniques for planting traditional English, Japanese, herb, and rock gardens, and building structures such as fences and walls, arches, pergolas and trellises, as well ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Home Gardener's Water Gardens

    Designing, building, planting, improving and maintaining water gardens

    Series series Specialist Guide
    Home Gardener's Water Gardens is the essential guide to enhancing an outdoor space with bubbling, gurgling, flowing water. For centuries, water has been a source of inspiration and delight to people of all cultures, making it a common feature of garden design worldwide. The tranquility of water has the power to soothe the senses, while moving water can add an exciting new dimension to a garden. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Flower Painter's Essential Handbook

    How to Paint 50 Beautiful Flowers in Watercolor

    by Jill Bays ...
    Help your artistic talent bloom by capturing the beauty of flowers with your brushstrokes from realistic close-ups to impressionistic landscapes.From Agapanthus to Water Lily, this unique artist's reference provides easy-to-follow, plant-specific information on how to paint fifty of today's most popular flowers.• Learn to draw each basic flower shape and then paint a single detailed bloom• Gain ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drawing & Painting Flowers

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Beautiful Floral Artworks

    by Jill Winch ...
    Learn how to capture the beauty of nature in pencil, pen and watercolour with this inspiring guide from award-winning botanical artist Jill Winch. The first half of the book shows you how to capture the shape, form and texture of a wide range of flowers and their leaves in pencil and in pen and wash. The second part shows how to work in watercolour, the medium of choice for most botanical artists, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Acrylic Artist's Bible

    An Essential Reference for the Practicing Artist

    by Marylin Scott ...
    This guide to painting techniques and subjects includes photos, diagrams and illustrations, providing instruction for both beginner and advanced artists.With its great flexibility, acrylic paint can mimic the appearance of oils, tempera, and watercolors in unique ways, each method pictured in a separate step-by-step demonstration. The author also examines the use of acrylics with airbrush, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contemporary Landscapes in Mixed Media

    by Soraya French ...
    A great guide for painters who want to experiment with mixed media and make their landscape paintings more adventurous.Popular artist and teacher, Soraya French, encourages readers to experiment with mixing media and to create more adventurous paintings and broaden their artistic horizons.The media that Soraya uses in this book are acrylics, pastels and collage and she shows how to bring the best ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Advanced Mouldmaking and Casting

    by Nick Brooks ...
    The scope and potential of mouldmaking and casting is fascinating, and makes it one of the most exciting processes available to today's craftsmen. Its opportunities have been developed and expanded further by a range of new methods and materials only recently made available to the domestic market. ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • 30 Bite-Sized Oil Painting Projects on 6 Colour Themes (3 Books in 1) Explore Alla Prima, Glazing, Impasto & More via Still Life, Landscapes, Skies, Animals & More

    This art instruction tome forms the perfect companion to a new set of oil paints. It will be a long time before the prospecting artist need ever find inspiration on what to paint again.An amalgamation of 3 art instruction books: 10 Bite-Sized Oil Painting Projects Book: 1, 2 and 3 means a wealth of ideas can be found here in one place. Find over 1000 instructional images and in depth instructions ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Backyard Building

    Treehouses, Sheds, Arbors, Gates, and Other Garden Projects

    Series series Countryman Know How
    Here is the very best of backyard building: Popular building authors Jeanie and David Stiles—whose treehouse once garnered a spread in Architectural Digest—have gathered dozens of original plans for treehouses, playhouses, and sheds, as well as a summer house, tea house, garden arbor, and functional workroom.Backyard Building will cover backyard accessories, the fundamentals of tools and materials ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Complete Guide to Building With Rocks & Stone

    Stonework Projects and Techniques Explained Simply

    by Brenda Flynn ...
    Humans have been building with stone for thousands of years, dating back to the ancient pyramids and the Sphinx. You can bring the aesthetics of stonework to your house and property with help from The Complete Guide to Building with Rocks & Stone. ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Kew: The Watercolour A to Z of Trees and Foliage

    An Illustrated Directory of Techniques for Painting 24 Trees

    Trees have inspired artists for generations. This unique watercolour artist's guide offers easy-to-follow, plant-specific information on how to paint a wonderful selection of the most popular species of trees. Beginning with a useful section on materials, the book then comprises an illustrated directory of 24 trees, from Acer to Zelkova. Step-by-step sequences show how to paint each one in a fresh ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Realistic Textures

    by Diane Cardaci ...
    Series series Drawing Made Easy
    With step-by-step projects that are designed to help sharpen artists' skills and heighten their confidence, this book demonstrates simple techniques for rendering the textures of everyday objects, such as metal, wood, plastic, hair, fur, feathers, and more. This 64-page book simplifies the process with easy-to-understand instructions and comprehensive illustrations. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus