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Stroll through the natural world with zendoodling! Following easy step-by-step instructions, learn how to take simple lines and shapes and transform them into intricate dainty daisies, frilly feathers, twisty trees, and more. With extra tips, tricks, and craft ideas, young artists of every ability will have fun drawing these tangled creations. Grab a pencil, relax, and draw your own nature zendoodles!

Most of us know that creativity and time outdoors are good for our wellbeing, yet so many of us struggle to find the time or motivation to step away from our screens. But theres a solution! Combining quick and easy exercises with the latest research on nature connection, wellbeing and creativity, The Green Sketching Handbook will inspire you to pick up a pencil and get started. Inspired by her own journey from climate scientist who hadn't...

"Find inner calm and happiness in this beautiful, meditative and earthy watercolour instruction book from nature lover, teacher and artist Inga Buividavice. Art therapy and the act of painting is widely acknowledged to bring positive mental health benefits, as it helps us centre ourselves, focus our intentions and engage creatively with the world around us. This beautiful guided watercolour book combines these aspects with the healing powers of nature...

Told as an imagined conversation between Christo and Jeanne-Claude, husband and wife artistic collaborators, this exploration of love and art shows how their once-in-a-lifetime, thought-provoking public installations captivated the world.

"This book will introduce and depict the artistic process, illuminated by award-winning wildlife artist, Linda Feltner. According to Feltner, it all begins with curiosity and obsessively close observation of the subject, which moves to the creation of loose sketches and drawings, and culminates in a finished artwork, or the "final" stage. While it is not a how-to manual, the book does pull together drawing basics and more intermediate and advanced...

"With art supplies in tow, a young artist explores the wonders of his urban forest during all four seasons. Using a variety of artistic mediums, the boy creatively depicts the smaller parts of the forest that make up the larger whole. Throughout the pages, readers will find: charcoal rubbings, rock art, photographs, sponge paintings, snow sculptures, cut-paper collage, and so much more! The boy uses his imaginative renderings to express his appreciation...

""Through a glass, darkly" is the biblical phrase that Vincent van Gogh borrowed in a letter to his mother, Anna Cornelia, when reflecting on his clouded perception of those closest to him. Painting, on the other hand, was a more certain venture. Van Gogh's relationship to the object is tirelessly recounted in a number of paintings and drawings that privilege an intimacy between viewer and viewed. The close examination of objects in nature was one...

Visits with five American artisans and artists who celebrate nature and the American landscape in their work: Patrick Dougherty, creator of large-scale installations that address environmental issues; Michelle Holsapfel, woodcarver and sculptor of boxes, bowls, and trompe l'oeil pieces; Mary Merkel-Hess, a fiber artist who makes sculptural works with paper, reed, and paint; Preston Singletary, a glass artist whose designs reflect his Tlingit heritage;...