"How history's greatest artists failed, floundered and made something brilliant anyway." The notion that famous artists were destined for greatness, somehow chosen or fated, and they they lead charmed lives is put under the microscope in this book. What the author explores is a less dramatic and more realistic truth: often artists are famous because …
Back in 1943, scientists started to receive a mysterious transmission. The created WOT, a small robot, to house this alien communication, and this book houses a collection of documents and case notes of what they learned about this intelligence, as it wanders through our world, noticing the small details of life and sometimes day dreaming! …
Subtitled "Adventures In Funding A Creative Life", this book is a history of the ways in which artists and creative people have made ends meet and kept body and soul together while following their calling to make art. Whilst establishing yourself as an artist, being able to have the money to live so that you …
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Translated from French by Hildegard Serle. Mona is ten when she first goes blind for one hour. As doctors try to find out the cause of her malady, her beloved grandfather is tasked with taking her to therapy appointments. Instead, fearing that she may lose her sight, he takes her to see one famous artwork …
Harry Bliss is a cartoonist who has drawn covers and images for the New Yorker, has illustrated over 25 childrens books and created a book with Steve Martin. In this book, he shares essays, journal entries, cartoons and artworks from his life, talking about a range of subjects from losing his beloved dog Penny after …
Stephane Breitwieser is the most prolific art thief of all time, taking art works and historical objects from museums all over Europe with the help of his girlfriend in broad daylight, amassing a collection worth over $2 billion. All of which he kept for his own enjoyment in his attic bedroom in his mother's house. …
How cute is this? I've always loved miniatures, ever since falling in love with dolls houses as a kid, but I've never made any. This cute kit really appealed to me, with it's tiny lights, snowy scene, and cozy rabbit burrow. This is from a series of kits which are pretty cheap and all over …
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During the lockdown, I ordered some books to keep me busy when I can;t go out. One that I've really enjoyed is called Craft A Doodle Deux by Jenny Doh. It's a book of doodle prompts that you can do different things with, and is made up of ideas and how to's from different artists. …
I'm so happy to have been asked to collaborate with Photowall because I was feeling like since we have our couch and side board in place, we had a nice lounge space but it was really bare. And then Photowall offered to send me something to help make our space more of a home, and …
Do you remember that point in 2016 when there seemed to be a celebrity death every day, and there was loads of political unrest, and it just felt generally scary and terrible? It sucked. Creating something beautiful out of the darkness, Andrew and Lee Fearnside channelled their thoughts and feelings and created this slim volume. …
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