The Man with the Golden Flute - Sir James, a Celtic Minstrel

Markers are an amazing and very versatile tool but are sometimes under appreciated when it comes to drawing and sketching.  This is the first in a series of books especially written for the e-book devices which will teach rendering and marker techniques.  This book focuses on the concepts on how to use markers and how to create metal shapes using those markers.  The book contains step by step examples of how to create the metal looks for brass, stainless steel and aluminum from refrigerators to lamps. The book also contains many finished examples and photographs as real world examples to draw from.

This book is enhanced for e-book readers with color screens.

About the Author.

Donald A. Gerds is an award-winning designer holding a BFA and MA. Starting working for Douglas Aircraft in 1957 in there interior design department. In  1960 he started his own design office in 1965, returned to Douglas for the interior of the DC-10. In 1970 began teaching design at Santa Monica College.  He has written three books “Perspective the Grid System” “Markers for Advertising Comps” and “Markers for interiors, Exteriors and Product Design which is no longer in print.

Multiple grand slam tennis champion and entrepreneur, Venus Williams and 46 of her colleagues, friends, and mentors deliver a volume of invaluable wisdom, motivation, and inspiration. Come to Win demonstrates how the principles of competitive athletics translate into business success. With contributions from a wide range of men and women who reached the very top of their games—including former CEO and bestselling author Jack Welch, fashion designer Vera Wang, actor Denzel Washington, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—Venus Williams’s Come to Win is a book every aspiring professional, coach, and sports enthusiast should read.

Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw.

In this book, Bert Dodson shares his complete drawing system-fifty-five "keys" that you can use to render any subject with confidence, even if you're a beginner.

These keys, along with dozens of practice exercises, will help you draw like an artist in no time.

You'll learn how to:

• Restore, focus, map, and intensify
• Free your hand action, then learn to control it
• Convey the illusions of light, depth, and texture
• Stimulate your imagination through "creative play"

PERSPECTIVE: Using the Grid System for Interior Design Sketching

This electronic book is a rewrite of the original paper book, rewritten by the author Donald Gerds, for electronic reading devices.  Both books teach basic perspective drawing using the grid system with a focus on doing interior design.   The grid system is a simple and efficient way of learning perspective quickly and accurately with a minimum of work and effort.

This E-Book will enable you to sketch an interior or a piece of furniture, in front of a client so that both of you are seeing the same thing you talked about. In the paper back book you have a full size grid, in this E-book you will learn how to make them and use grids in a sketch.

About the Author.

Donald A. Gerds is an award-winning designer holding a BFA and MA. Starting working for Douglas Aircraft in 1957 in there interior design department. In  1960 he started his own design office in 1965, returned to Douglas for the interior of the DC-10. In 1970 began teaching design at Santa Monica College.  He has written three books “Perspective the Grid System” “Markers for Advertising Comps” and “Markers for interiors, Exteriors and Product Design which is no longer in print.

Sidney Poitier is one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his convictions, bravery, and grace. Poitier reflects on his amazing life in Life Beyond Measure, offering inspirational advice and personal stories in the form of extended letters to his great-granddaughter. Writing for all who admire his example and who search for wisdom only a man of great experience can offer, this American icon shares his thoughts on love, faith, courage, and the future.

Poitier draws upon the perspective and wisdom gained from his memories as a poor boy in the Bahamas, his experience of racism coming to the United States, falling in love and raising a family, breaking the race barrier in theater and film during the Civil Rights Era, achieving stardom and success in Hollywood, and being a diplomat and humanitarian. He reflects on the deepest questions and the significant passages of his life, the virtues that helped him through tough times, and the sense of purpose and history that strengthened him. He emphasizes the importance of the role of faith in a technological age, as well as our responsibility to the earth and future generations. Throughout, Poitier shares stories about the people of courage he has met along the way and the meaning of life in the face of death.

Life Beyond Measure is the perfect book to inspire readers to live the fullest life with integrity, from one of our most respected celebrities and a national treasure.

At the 2001 Academy Awards, Halle Berry thanked Lena Horne for paving the way for her to become the first black recipient of a Best Actress Oscar. Though limited, mostly to guest singing appearances in splashy Hollywood musicals, "the beautiful Lena Horne," as she was often called, became a pioneering star for African Americans in the 1940s and fifties. Now James Gavin, author of Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, draws on a wealth of unmined material and hundreds of interviews -- one of them with Horne herself -- to give us the defining portrait of an American icon.

Gavin has gotten closer than any other writer to the celebrity who has lived in reclusion since 1998. Incorporating insights from the likes of Ruby Dee, Tony Bennett, Diahann Carroll, Arthur Laurents, and several of Horne's fellow chorines from Harlem's Cotton Club, Stormy Weather offers a fascinating portrait of a complex, even tragic Horne -- a stunning talent who inspired such giants of showbiz as Barbra Streisand, Eartha Kitt, and Aretha Franklin, but whose frustrations with racism, and with tumultuous, root-less childhood, left wounds too deep to heal. The woman who emerged was as angry as she was luminous.

From the Cotton Club's glory days and the back lots of Hollywood's biggest studios to the glitzy but bigoted hotels of Las Vegas's heyday, this behind-the-scenes look at an American icon is as much a story of the limits of the American dream as it is a masterful, ground-breaking biography.

It can happen at any moment - A powerful light effect. A telling gesture. A unique posture.

When you're struck by am image or impression you want to use in your art, you must record it - quickly! - before it's gone.But what's an artist to do when there's no time for a carefully rendered drawing or even a good photo? Some quick field sketching, that's what!

This book will revolutionize the way you sketch. David Rankin reveals the simple secrets to creating quick, impressionistic field sketches from life - and how to work with them once you're back in the studio. With the tools and methods described here, you'll be surprised how easy it is to draw rapid visuals of landscapes, animals, figures, crowds, any subject.

So the next time you're taken by a sudden, fleeting inspiration, you can capture it. And make the most of it in your art.