Provides instructions for drawing a variety of creatures from myths and legends around the world.

A guide to drawing and painting fairies details different types of mediums and method, offers instructions for creating fairies with basic shapes, and discusses fundamental art techniques including laying washes with watercolors and using masking film.

Contains illustrated, step-by-step instructions for drawing unicorns and other mythical beasts, including Cerberus and Chimera, provides tips on tools and techniques, and features advice on creating a scene.

In this sumptuous book, Stephane Pincas takes us on a unique guided tour in time and space, vividly recreating the whole history of the gardens. Through the upper garden, the great central axis and the lower garden - echoing the route taken by the Sun King himself - we explore parterres, fountains, and the fantastical open-air rooms of the bosquets, discovering every feature that remains or once had its place there. Assembling paintings, sculptures...

The Unicorn Tapestries are a set of seven magnificent hangings completed between 1495 & 1505. Presently housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this book traces the history of the tapestries and provides interpretation of the symbolism employed in the story.

In the beginning there was nothing - a void. Then the ancient gods and goddesses breathed life into lumps of clay and a great nation rose before them. So begins the Japanese creation myth, as recorded centuries ago in the Kojiki. It's an origin story unlike any other, retold for the first time by prize-winning artist Kazumi Wilds. Combing the raucous rhythms and gripping imagery of a graphic novel with the classic patterns of anorigin sstory - myth,...