Schiffer Books (528)

Tommy at 50

ISBN: 9780764367199

Author: Chris Charlesworth    Publisher: Schiffer Books

This updated and expanded edition of Tommy at Fifty is the definitive illustrated companion to the album that made the Who one of the greatest and most influent...


This updated and expanded edition of Tommy at Fifty is the definitive illustrated companion to the album that made the Who one of the greatest and most influential bands of the rock era. Written by two leading experts on, and close associates of, the group—journalist and author Chris Charlesworth and original album cover designer Mike McInnerney—it considers the album from four distinct angles, examining the mood of its creation, the origins of its music, the look of the artwork and its subsequent film adaptation, and its enduring legacy. With a foreword by Pete Townshend and cover art created exclusively for this book by McInnerney, Tommy at Fifty offers an unparalleled window into the Who’s finest hour. With the exception perhaps of My Generation, Tommy remains the work with which the Who are most closely associated. It’s the album that turned Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, and Keith Moon into millionaire superstars, and, like its Messiah figure title character, it casts a long shadow over both their subsequent work together and the canon of 20th‐century rock music.


Bind: paperback


Pages: 192


Dimensions: 228 x 228 mm


Publication Date: 01-11-2023


Tags: Coming Soon   Music
$69.99
DUE > 30th Apr 2024
White Light Bright

ISBN: 9780764362668

Author: Bivenne Staiger    Publisher: Schiffer Books

This richly illustrated and comprehensive resource helps watercolorists plan and create exceptional paintings by focusing on color, value, and other elements in...


This richly illustrated and comprehensive resource helps watercolorists plan and create exceptional paintings by focusing on color, value, and other elements in both subjects and settings. Too often, melding the subject with the background is an afterthought for artists. "White! Light! Bright!" is the mantra for this book's unique and effective method for planning your subject in concert with its background and then creating a powerful piece in three major stages: from white, light, and bright color to midvalues and finally to darks. Easy-to-follow text from a skilled teacher alongside visuals and demonstrations helps you catch the energizing spark of light and contrast. Get comfortable with the how-to of building value, color, shape, and background through various edges, textures, and other compositional elements. You'll bolster the creative thinking and planning processes that are key to an artist's ability to turn an abstract idea into a standout representational watercolor painting.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 176


Dimensions: 216 x 279 mm


Publication Date: 31-10-2021


$59.99
Watercolor The Easy Way

ISBN: 9780764359828

Author: Sara Berrenson    Publisher: Schiffer Books

With Watercolor the Easy Way, your watercoloring creativity is about to be released! Quickly learn the fundamentals of color mixing, brushstrokes, and more. The...


With Watercolor the Easy Way, your watercoloring creativity is about to be released! Quickly learn the fundamentals of color mixing, brushstrokes, and more. Then move right ahead to success, thanks to a selection of 50 stunning pictures to paint. Best of all, the projects can be completed in 30 minutes! From beautiful botanicals and fabulous florals to animals and trendy designs, the projects are approachable and fun, and there's something for every style. Each of the 50 simple tutorials is broken down into key steps so you can clearly see how to begin your painting, layer color, and add detail. Also included are hand-drawn patterns you can trace onto your watercolor pad, brush recommendations, helpful tips, and color palettes to try. The lessons here introduce you to the magic of watercolor, spark your creativity, and provide you with a place to explore and discover your inner artist.


Bind: paperback


Pages: 128


Dimensions: 216 x 279 mm


$55.00
Gus Wagner : Globe Trotter and Hand Tattoo Artist

ISBN: 9780764367281

Author: Alan Govenar    Publisher: Schiffer Books

A visual history of the life of Augustus “Gus” Wagner and his work as a hand tattoo artist, exploring a relatively unknown area of American art history from...


A visual history of the life of Augustus “Gus” Wagner and his work as a hand tattoo artist, exploring a relatively unknown area of American art history from the 1890s to the 1930s. In 1897, Gus embarked on a four-year career as a merchant seaman. While traveling the world, he discovered the art of tattooing, learning to tattoo from tribesmen in Java and Borneo who showed him how to use traditional handmade tools. By 1901, Gus reportedly had 264 tattoos of his own (and over 800 by 1908), allowing him to promote himself as “the most artistically marked-up man in America.” Back home, Gus embarked on a 40-year career as a traveling tattooist, tattooed man, and circus performer. He largely eschewed the new electric tattooing machines that transformed the art form after 1890, and remained faithful to his handheld instruments. With other wandering artists, he carried tattooing inland from coastal ports, making it part of the culture of small-town America in the 20th century. This book includes • more than 100 examples of Gus Wagner’s tattoo flash as well as photos of his life and work, including his handheld tattooing tools; • excerpts from interviews with Gus, telling his story in his own words; and • selected passages from three of Herman Melville’s novels—Typee, White Jacket, and Moby Dick, to illuminate the context of the oral history of Gus Wagner; Melville was an astute observer of hand tattoo artists and their clientele. The tattoo flash in this book is a testimony to the richness of Gus Wagner’s image vocabulary, his life, and his artistic influences. This is the first in a series of three books exploring "the Last of the Hand Tattoo Artists." The next two books will focus on Gus's wife, Maud, and their daughter, Lovetta, renowned hand tattoo artists in their own right.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 128


Dimensions: 279 x 215 mm


Publication Date: 28-02-2024


$85.00
DUE > 31st May 2024
Outsider Art Tarot

ISBN: 9780764362705

Author: Rita Rose    Publisher: Schiffer Books

Delight your senses and your sense of humor with this colorful, whimsical, and rebelliously unique 78-card Tarot deck. With vibrant art created in the raw, intu...


Delight your senses and your sense of humor with this colorful, whimsical, and rebelliously unique 78-card Tarot deck. With vibrant art created in the raw, intuitive "outsider art" or art brut style, this deck follows the traditional symbolism of the Tarot in a creatively quirky but highly accessible way. Here you will find pierced and pointy-breasted maidens questing on unicorns, double-faced shamans, turkey queens, elephant angels, and the never-ending dance of light and dark throughout. Each archetypal card contains many layers of meaning and is infused with alchemical, astrological, and esoteric symbolism from several magical and shamanic traditions—different paths leading to the same final destination: Within. The accompanying guidebook presents clear explanations for each card, including reversals and bonus meanings that the artist received directly while "downloading" her art from the Creative Ether.


Bind: stationery


Pages: 78


Dimensions: 135 x 152 mm


Publication Date: 31-10-2021


$55.00
Antoinette The Tree Frog

ISBN: 9780764361104

Author: Geraldine Elschner    Publisher: Schiffer Books

While Antoinette the tree frog is napping, the painter Monsieur Claude loses his hat in the breeze. Adventure unfolds when a magpie snatches the hat. Part of th...


While Antoinette the tree frog is napping, the painter Monsieur Claude loses his hat in the breeze. Adventure unfolds when a magpie snatches the hat. Part of the First Steps in Art series, this whimsical tale introduces toddlers to fine art and the works of Claude Monet. The water lily painting Nympheas, effet du soir, invites young readers to discover it at the Marmottan Museum and take a walk in the painter's garden in Giverny! Water lilies and tree frogs await you there.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 14


Dimensions: 191 x 191 mm


Publication Date: 27-02-2021


$19.99
Marvelous Mopheads

ISBN: 9780764367298

Author: Joan Harrison    Publisher: Schiffer Books

A comprehensive growing guide to mophead hydrangea varieties available today and best practices for cultivating each. Finally, a book just about mopheads, the ...


A comprehensive growing guide to mophead hydrangea varieties available today and best practices for cultivating each. Finally, a book just about mopheads, the most-popular hydrangeas for home gardeners. A 2021 study by the University of Tennessee Extension Service estimates more than 10 million hydrangeas are sold in the US each year. Mopheads are far and away the hydrangeas in greatest demand, accounting for 90% of sales. New mophead varieties flood the market every year. It’s hard to keep track of them all, let alone choose the perfect one(s) for the home garden. Marvelous Mopheads provides a comprehensive list of mophead varieties and invaluable advice about the best mopheads, including the older tried-and-true mopheads and more-recent introductions. The book is organized to present clear answers to frequently asked questions about • plant selection • color • pruning • indoor and outdoor placement • potting • feeding and fertilizing • soil pH adjustments • winter protection • care instructions • ensuring successful blooming With over 250 photos showing off the beauty of clearly labeled varieties, the book provides comprehensive information about the wonderful world of mophead hydrangeas.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 128


Dimensions: 231 x 206 mm


Publication Date: 28-01-2024


$60.00
DUE > 30th Apr 2024
Hummingbird Wisdom Oracle Cards

ISBN: 9780764362729

Publisher: Schiffer Books

The way of the Hummingbird is a path, one of lightness and joy, and one of power and strength. These oracle cards are filled with inspiration and guidance to he...


The way of the Hummingbird is a path, one of lightness and joy, and one of power and strength. These oracle cards are filled with inspiration and guidance to help you connect to your divinity, explore the seen and unseen, and embrace your unique, epic journey in this lifetime. You are meant to live a life filled with blessings, and the Hummingbird offers its magical, gentle wisdom to guide you there. In this easy-to-use deck, you’ll be immersed into the fun, mystical world of the Hummingbird with 44 exquisitely designed cards and a detailed guidebook with expanded messages, affirmations, and exercises to enhance and deepen your personal growth. Spread your wings and embark on a delightful, nectar-filled flight toward living a more conscious life filled with sweetness and joy.


Bind: stationery


Pages: 112


Dimensions: 97 x 140 mm


Publication Date: 31-10-2021


$55.00
Hide and Seek with Little Hippo

ISBN: 9780764361111

Author: Geraldine Elschner    Publisher: Schiffer Books

Count 1, 2, 3 as Little Hippo looks for a place to hide. His game of hide-and-seek leads him to his bath, where he, in turn, will have to look for his friend th...


Count 1, 2, 3 as Little Hippo looks for a place to hide. His game of hide-and-seek leads him to his bath, where he, in turn, will have to look for his friend the butterfly. Part of the First Steps in Art series, this colorful tale introduces toddlers to fine art and features a bright-blue Egyptian hippopotamus figurine from the Louvre Museum. Can you find him hiding along the banks of the Nile in the golden sands and cool blue waters?


Pages: 14


Dimensions: 191 x 191 mm


Publication Date: 26-02-2021


$19.99
McLaren : The Road Cars 2010-2024

ISBN: 9780764367311

Author: Kyle Fortune    Publisher: Schiffer Books

he definitive illustrated history of the exotic sports cars and supercars of McLaren Automotive. When the McLaren Formula 1 team set up McLaren Cars and launch...


he definitive illustrated history of the exotic sports cars and supercars of McLaren Automotive. When the McLaren Formula 1 team set up McLaren Cars and launched the revolutionary, iconic F1 road car in 1992, it turned the supercar world upside down. McLaren wouldn’t make another road car itself until it formed McLaren Automotive in 2010. It was set up with the vision not just to rival the established companies in the sports and supercar marketplace, but to disrupt and to constantly innovate in its pursuit of performance. Readers will learn the following: • Upstart company McLaren Automotive applied Formula 1 engineering expertise, innovation, and radical thinking to create cars that quickly became benchmarks for performance, ride, and handling against long-established supercar manufacturers such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Porsche. • Unparalleled insight from the designers, engineers, aerodynamicists, and test drivers who create McLaren Automotive’s cars, with modern, independent insight from test drives by automotive journalists and the author • Detailed technical insight, background stories, and data to the creation, development, and manufacture of all of McLaren Automotive’s sensational cars, with the text supported by comprehensive data tables and illustrated by images from a team of world-renowned automotive photographers This book contains incredible insight and detail from access to McLaren’s press archives, as well as interviews with countless key people within the company. The first and only book dedicated entirely to McLaren’s incredible road cars, this is the complete history of a fascinating automotive brand that’s challenged the establishment.


Bind: hardback


Pages: 320


Dimensions: 228 x 304 mm


Publication Date: 28-01-2024


$150.00
DUE > 30th Apr 2024
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