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60 | PAINTING, PAPER ART Wax on Crafts: 15 Decorative Techniques for Transforming Your Crafts • Miriam Joy • Create bright and cheerful designs for the holidays using a box of crayons and a few simple tools! With step- by-step instructions and over 400 imagesyou can turn inexpensive and everyday items into family treasures. Decorate tile magnets, ornaments, and other mediums. Use wax with paper, wood, glass, metals, boxes, eggs, and felt. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 490 color photos • 96 pp • 978-0- 7643-5021-4 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Painterly Days: The Flower Watercoloring Book for Adults • Kristy Rice • In these three books, printed on lovely watercolor paper, the art- ist is invited to experiment with only a brush and paint. Pages are double-sided, offering the oppor- tunity to paint the same page in different ways. The author shares painting tips for each sketch and advice for discovering the artist within. Creativity is an escape, and these books offer a delightful way to make art regardless of skill level. Painterly Days: The Woodland Watercolor- ing Book for Adults • Kristy Rice • 9" × 12" (229 × 305 mm) • 26 b/w images13 color images • 60 pp • 978-0-7643-5092-4 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Painterly Days: The Pattern Watercoloring Book for Adults • Kristy Rice • 9" × 12" (229 × 305 mm) • 26 b/w images13 color images • 60 pp • 978-0-7643-5093-1 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Painterly Days - 12 Colored Pencils: 12 Col- ored Pencils • Kristy Rice • 3.5" × 8.25" (89 × 210 mm) • 978-0-7643-5167-9 • Boxed set • $9.99 / £9.99 / 13.99 CAD Painterly Days - 18 Watercolors: 18 Water- colors & Paintbrush • Kristy Rice • 4.63" × 9.5" (118 × 241 mm) • 978-0-7643-5168-6 • Boxed set • $12.99 / £11.99 / 17.99 CAD Watercolor Cards with Foil Touches: Illustrations by Kristy Rice • Kristy Rice • Kristy Rice's popular style shines in these cards' nature-lovely designs! Pale printed lines on high-quality watercolor stock guide your paintings. Your work will be enhanced by the gorgeous glints of metallic-foil touches. • 7.75" × 5.75" (197 × 146 mm) • 12 illustrations w/ foil; flat cards w/ envelopes • 978-0-7643- 6314-6 • Boxed kit • $24.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Kristy's Spring Cutting Garden: A Watercol- oring Book • Kristy Rice • The first in a series of seasonal watercoloring books based on artist Kristy Rice’s cutting gardens, this book celebrates spring’s profuse blossoms, such as peonies, mag- nolias, pansies, and Eastern bluestar. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 39 color and b/w images • 60 pp • 978-0-7643-5335-2 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Kristy's Summer Cutting Garden: A Water- coloring Book • Kristy Rice • The second in a series of seasonal watercoloring books based on artist Kristy Rice’s cutting gardens, this book cele- brates summer’s languid blossoms, such as anem- one, hollyhocks, coneflowers, and fuchsia. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 39 color and b/w images • 60 pp • 978-0-7643-5336-9 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Kristy's Fall Cutting Garden: A Watercol- oring Book • Kristy Rice • The third in a series of seasonal watercoloring books based on artist Kristy Rice’s cutting gardens, this book celebrates autumn’s vibrant blossoms, such as asters, zinnias, torch lilies, and chrysanthemums. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 39 color and b/w images • 60 pp • 978-0-7643-5379-6 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Kristy's Winter Cutting Garden: A Watercol- oring Book • Kristy Rice • The fourth in a series of seasonal watercoloring books based on artist Kristy Rice’s cutting gardens, this book celebrates winter’s blossoms, such as amaryllis, hollyberry, hellebores, and snowdrops. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 39 color and b/w images • 60 pp • 978-0-7643-5380-2 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Paint-Your-Own Wall Calendar: Illustrations by Kristy Rice • Kristy Rice • You're ready to cre- ate Art for Joy’s Sake in a new way. Choose your year and start any time, painting beautiful pages to enjoy year-round. Printed on deluxe-quality wa- tercolor stock for lovely results, the ready-to-paint images feature floral and nature. Contains every- thing you need: paint dot card, wooden brush, 12 calendar pages, 1 instruction/practice page, and 3 yards of ribbon. • 9" × 12" (229 × 305 mm) • 13 images with gold foil; wooden brush, paint, satin ribbon • 978-0-7643-6449-5 • Boxed kit • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Watercolor Cards: Illustrations by Kristy Rice • Kristy Rice • These beau- tiful cards invite you to pick up your brush and release your own creativity and imag- ination. Printed on high-quality textured art paper, the flat cards feature 12 differ- ent images from the Painterly Days and Cutting Gardens watercolor workbooks and are easily frameable. • 7.75" × 5.75" (197 × 146 mm) • 12 illustrations, flat cards w/ envelopes • 978-0-7643- 5766-4 • Boxed set • $16.99 / £15.99 / 23.99 CAD The Art for Joy’s Sake Journal: Watercolor Discovery and Releasing Your Creative Spir- it • Kristy Rice • These beautiful, frameable pages offer ways for all levels of painters to make “art for joy’s sake” and simultaneously paint a personal keepsake. Includes 9 illustrations ready to be wa- tercolored on thick, textured paper, plus Kristy’s guidance for improving technique, playing with your brush, and much more. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 60 color and b/w images • 60 pp • 978-0-7643-5767-1 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD How to Make Art for Joy’s Sake: Free-Spir- ited Watercolor • Kristy Rice, Foreword by Amy Palmer • Forget rules, forget right, remember joy! Kristy Rice’s approach to watercolor art has won the hearts of fans worldwide. With step-by-step photos and enlightening practice sessions and projects, learn the rendering of outdoor scenes, patterns, and more. Discover how to find joy in every brushstroke. • 8" × 10" (203 × 254 mm) • 412 color images • 192 pp • 978-0-7643-6151-7 • HC w/spiral • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Paint-Your-Own Watercolor Garland: Illustrations by Kristy Rice • Kristy Rice • Includes paint (dot card), wooden brush, 78 decorated alphabet & number cards, 6 floral image cards, & 5 yards of ribbon. Enjoy painting the cards, then rearrange to create unlimited greetings and decoration for any special day. With deluxe-quality watercolor stock. • 6.38" × 5.25" (162 × 133 mm) • 84 b/w images, paint, wooden brush, 78 alphabet & number cards, 6 floral image cards, 5 yards ribbon • 84 pp • 978-0-7643-6315-3 • Boxed kit • $27.99 / £25.99 / 38.99 CAD Paint-Your-Own Holiday Decorations: Illustrations by Kristy Rice • Kristy Rice • Includes everything needed: high-quality paint, wooden brush, 30 watercolor paper ornaments approx. 4” by 4” with metallic foil touches, and hanging ribbons. Enjoy the 30 finished decorations—placed on a tree, used as gift tags, or joined into gar- lands. • 7.75" × 5.75" (197 × 146 mm) • 30 2-sided ornaments with gold foil, paint, wooden brush, hanging ribbons • 30 pp • 978-0-7643-6448-8 • Boxed kit • $22.99 / £20.99 / 31.99 CAD Blooming Paper: How to Handcraft Paper Flowers and Botanicals • Laura Reed • Bold, modern paper creations are works of art. This guide inspires you to make floral designs that bring immediate joy as well as permanent beauty. Walk through basic techniques, then step-by-step tutori- als to make 14 flower forms, each labeled with skill level. • 8.5" × 10" (216 × 254 mm) • 400 color images • 168 pp • 978-0-7643-6208-8 • PB • $27.99 / £25.99 / 38.99 CAD Constructing and Covering Boxes: The Art and Craft of Box Making • Tom Hollander, Cin- dy Hollander • This 2nd edition of the classic how- to guide includes a new chapter on divided boxes, as well as additional creative box examples to fur- ther inspire you as you learn the craft. Nearly 300 color photos make every step crystal clear to craft hinged-lid, clamshell, and other inspired boxes out of book board covered with decorative papers and bookcloth. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 308 color images • 96 pp • 978-0-7643-5891-3 • PB • $16.99 / £15.99 / 23.99 CAD Creating Snowflake Art: Designing Original Papercuttings • C. Angela Mohr • This book in- troduces basic cutting techniques for snowflakes and provides designing tips for making original pa- percuttings and ornaments for everyday use or sea- sonal decorating. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 300 color photos • 64 pp • 978-0-7643-2971-5 • PB • $12.99 / £11.99 / 17.99 CAD Folded Forms: Symmetrical and Playful Pa- per Designs • Alexander Heinz • Introducing eight new paper folding models from polyhe- dra-expert Alexander Heinz. • 9" × 10.25" (229 × 260 mm) • 300+ color and b/w images & illus- trations • 176 pp • 978-0-7643-6612-3 • HC • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD PAPER ART