For longtime readers of Andrew Murray's books as well as those new to his work, this book will become a beloved classic devotional. With 365 undated readings, it can be started anytime during the year. The meditations draw selections from Murray's most beloved books including Humility, Absolute Surrender, Abiding in Christ, and many more. This 19th-century writer speaks to today's reader as clearly as he did to his audience a century ago.

Crafted by leading students from the finest American art schools of the early twentieth century, these black-and-white illustrations represent a wide variety of life drawing styles. The original renderings-in crayon, charcoal, pencil, and ink-are beautifully reproduced here, with faithful attention to every shadow and nuance. George B. Bridgman, a longtime instructor at New York's Art Students League and a prominent teacher of figure drawing, selected...

The Art of the Travel Sketch is a compilation of drawings by architect James Warfield. Inspired by American author Kurt Vonnegut's observation that "peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God," Warfield has devoted a lifetime of world travel and architectural research to record in sketches, words and photographs the most exotic vernacular environments and the cultures and people who create them. The book is intended as both an educational...

The nineteenth century French painter Gustave Courbet almost single-handedly challenged and subverted the prevailing tastes of High Art, rebelling against the Romantic painting of the day. He turned attention instead to everyday themes and the lives of ordinary men and women, eschewing the age-old subjects of religious and historical art. His enormous canvases shocked the art establishment and prepared the way for the innovative creations of the modernist...

This volume covers the essential skills for Illustrator artists such as drawing geometric and freehand objects, color management, using multiple artboards, applying colors, patterns, and gradients and much more.

Pursued through poetic pastures of faith, love, and time by an Omuhimba muse who alternately challenges and enchants him, D. Stevenson presents Ancestors and Other Visitors, a poetry anthology that is as sweepingly existential as it is personal and as sagely simple as it is complex.An immigrant, artist and spoken wordsmith observing the world through a traveler soul, Stevenson journeys through time and literary style to pay homage to influence such...

83 moving works: The Weavers, Peasant War, War, Death, and others.