Linescapes

Author: Hugh Warwick
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473511283
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
‘Glorious... Political, passionate, perceptive’ Robert Macfarlane An eye-opening exploration of the lines that cut through our countryside, from hedges to railways, and a passionate manifesto for reconnecting wildlife. Our landscape has been transformed by a vast network of lines, from hedges and walls to railways and power cables. In Linescapes, Hugh Warwick unravels the far-reaching ecological consequences of these changes. As our lives and our land were fenced in and threaded together, wildlife habitats were cut into ever smaller – and increasingly unviable – fragments. Yet as Warwick travels across this linescape, he shows that we can help our flora and fauna to flourish once again. With his fresh and bracing perspective on Britain’s countryside, he proposes a challenge and gives ground for hope, for our lines can and do contain a real potential for wildness and for wildlife.

Sketching with Watercolour Pencils

Author:
Publisher: Top That! Publishing
ISBN: 9781842292679
Category : Colored pencil drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Children will find everything they need to master a new art medium with these easy-to-follow art books. Each title includes a practice pad and the tools required to learn a variety of artistic techniques.

Linescapes

Author: MireliBooks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996735315
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
LINESCAPES is a collection of hand-drawn illustrations depicting patterned landscapes inspired by our travels in New England: Plymouth, Weeping Willow Boston Public Garden, Building Harvard Square, Autumn Rides in Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire.

Linescapes

Author: Mireli
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523604678
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
LINESCAPES is a unique collection of hand-drawn illustrations depicting patterned landscapes inspired by scenes from the world. Meadows, waves, mountains translate to patterns for coloring. These patterned landscapes and can help tap into one's creative space, release stress and quiet the mind. The book contains 48 full page drawings of landscape patterns including seasides, mountains, forests, meadows, and rock formations. Drawings are printed on one side only and suitable for coloring. Layout: calendar-landscape style with binding on top.

Hedgehog Book

Author: Hugh Warwick
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1913733556
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
A welcome visitor heard rustling through our hedges or spotted shuffling across our lawns, hedgehogs are a celebrated addition to every garden and their proper care and conservation valuable to numerous other species. Through informative chapters ranging from the physiological and environmental to the inclusion of the hedgehog in myth, legend, art and literature, The Hedgehog Book is an ideal guide to its subject for all nature lovers, beautifully illustrated throughout with new photography and artwork. Chapters include: Hedgehog Life Threats to Hedgehogs The Hedgehog in Myth and Legend The Hedgehog in Art and Literature

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Author: Betty Edwards
Publisher: Tarcher
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Presents a set of basic exercises designed to release creative potential and tap into the special abilities of the brain's right hemisphere.

Stop.space

Author: Yukiko Maya Bowman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description

Linescapes

Author: Hugh Warwick
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0099597764
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the Guardian ‘This is a beautifully crafted book . . . timely and essential reading’ Kathy Willis, Director of Science, Kew Gardens It is rare to find a landscape untouched by our lines – the hedges, walls, ditches and dykes built to enclose and separate; and the green lanes, roads, canals, railways and power lines, designed to connect. This vast network of lines has transformed our landscape. In Linescapes, Hugh Warwick unravels the far-reaching ecological consequences of the lines we have drawn: as our lives and our land were being fenced in and threaded together, so wildlife habitats have been cut into ever smaller, and increasingly unviable, fragments. Hugh Warwick has travelled across the country to explore this linescape from the perspective of our wildlife and to understand how, with a manifesto for reconnection, we can help our flora and fauna to flourish. Linescapes offers a fresh and bracing perspective on Britain’s countryside, one that proposes a challenge and gives ground for hope; for while nature does not tend to straight lines and discrete borders, our lines can and do contain a real potential for wildness and for wildlife.

Playing with Sketches

Author: Whitney Sherman
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
ISBN: 1610589459
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
DIVDrawing is the backbone of art and design; with all of the tantalizing wonders of the digital world, the best designers, illustrators and artists know that itâ€™s good to step back occasionally and hit the refresh button on your hand and mind. Playing with Sketches is a hands-on, fun approach to exploring drawing principles. Beginning with an introduction to the philosophy of learning through the process of play, this book brings you through a series of basic warm-up exercises that can be combined with later projects. Then youâ€™ll move quickly on to more challenging and engaging exercises, including word games, dimensional shapes, and inventive sketchbooks and letterforms, eventually creating a â€œtoolkitâ€? of ideas and skills developed through the process of play. This book features creative, adaptable ideas, and numerous examples of designers and artists responses to each exercise, giving you a peek into their way of thinking and seeing. /divDIVWith over 25 contributors, from high-profile designers, illustrators and artists to talented graduate students, you see work that will walk you step-by-step through a process or inspire by example. The book provides meaningful outcomes for your practice, including building an image archive, being exposed to new ways to use media and tools, inspiring you to break the rules, to collaborate, and much more!/div

Overgrown

Author: Julian Raxworthy
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262547120
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 393

Book Description
A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden. Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a watershed work in the tradition of Ian McHarg, Anne Whiston Spirn, Kevin Lynch, and J. B. Jackson. As a discipline, landscape architecture has distanced itself from gardening, and landscape architects take pains to distinguish themselves from gardeners or landscapers. Landscape architects tend to imagine gardens from the office, representing plants with drawings or other simulations, whereas gardeners work in the dirt, in real time, planting, pruning, and maintaining. In Overgrown, Raxworthy calls for the integration of landscape architecture and gardening. Each has something to offer the other: Landscape architecture can design beautiful spaces, and gardening can enhance and deepen the beauty of garden environments over time. Growth, says Raxworthy, is the medium of garden development; landscape architects should leave the office and go into the garden in order to know growth in an organic, nonsimulated way. Raxworthy proposes a new practice for working with plant material that he terms “the viridic” (after “the tectonic” in architecture), from the Latin word for green, with its associations of spring and growth. He builds his argument for the viridic through six generously illustrated case studies of gardens that range from “formal” to “informal” approaches—from a sixteenth-century French Renaissance water garden to a Scottish poet-scientist's “marginal” garden, barely differentiated from nature. Raxworthy argues that landscape architectural practice itself needs to be “gardened,” brought back into the field. He offers a “Manifesto for the Viridic” that casts designers and plants as vegetal partners in a renewed practice of landscape gardening.