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A step-by-step guide to drawing dogs and puppies including a list of basic materials and warm-up exercises to improve drawing technique.

Instructions, with suggested exercises, for drawing cats and kittens.

Rhyming text describes how various insects camouflage themselves to proctect against predators.

Here is a book for anyone tired of speaking flat, colorless, homogenized English. Pennsylvania Dutchman Gary Gates provides a glossary, read-aloud section, songs, recipes, and more in this delightful, inwaluble introduction to Dutch-ified English. Learn the meaning of "rutch" and "spritz," what a "clod" and a "crotch" are, how to pronounce and make "Cussin Rachel's Snitz und Knepp," and what has happened to food when it's all. As you read this book...

Shows ways to draw all kinds of things from the world of the supernatural from ghosts to vampires to haunted houses.

In this comprehensive guide, acclaimed artist William F. Powell invites you into his artistic world as he shows you how to render a variety of beautiful flowers in pencil. After sharing helpful tips for choosing materials, shading with pencil, and creating floral arrangements, he explores drawing techniques with step-by-step demonstrations that feature his own personal method for developing a drawing to its fullest potential. And the lessons feature...