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Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1842-1939) was an artist, collector, scholar, and historian working at the dawn of the 20th century. Her first and most prominent work, Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color, provides a comprehensive overview of the main ideas of color theory at the time, as well as her wildly original approaches to color analysis and interaction. Through a 21st century lens, she appears to stumble upon midcentury...
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Blue, the world's favorite color, is elegantly showcased in more than 200 artworks from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Representing a diversity of movements, cultures, and media that spans the ages and the globe, the objects in Blue range from ancient Egyptian jewelry and traditional Japanese prints to Impressionist paintings and indigo-dyed textiles. Short essays from museum curators on the significance and symbolism of the color...
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Learn how to create photorealistic colored pencil drawings that are convincing enough to fool the eye!
This book shows you how to make incredibly realistic colored pencil drawings in 10 easy step-by-step lessons. Follow along as author Cocomaru explains how to depict highlights, shadows and refractions, how to render photorealistic textures, and how to create a sense of depth in your drawings that makes them appear truly real!
Photorealistic Colored...
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Extrait: "L'art émanant du dessin est la nature formulée. Par chacune de ses divisions il donne une formule spéciale de la nature. Les arts ne pouvant percevoir la forme sans étendue, sans volume, ils lui ont attribué une sorte de membrure composée du contour, du modelé, de la couleur. Puis ils ont isolé ces membres théoriques, afin de les appliquer à leurs usages; ils les ont réduits en formules, les rassemblant ou les divisant selon le...
386) Living color
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2007.
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Looks at a wide range of colorful animals, describing how their feathers, scales, shells, and skin help them survive, warn predators, signal friends, attract a mate, or hide from their enemies.
387) Blue rider
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In a book without words, a child finds a book on a crowded city sidewalk and is transported beyond the repetitive sameness of an urban skyscape into an untamed natural world.
388) Genesis begins again
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4th Grade Rocks
Black History Month - Tweens
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Social Justice Reading List by BCALA & ALSC (PreK-Gr. 8)
Black History Month - Tweens
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Social Justice Reading List by BCALA & ALSC (PreK-Gr. 8)
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This deeply sensitive and powerful debut novel tells the story of a thirteen-year-old who must overcome internalized racism and a verbally abusive family to finally learn to love herself. There are ninety-six things Genesis hates about herself. She knows the exact number because she keeps a list. Like #95: Because her skin is so dark, people call her charcoal and eggplant--even her own family. And #61: Because her family is always being put out of...
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[2014]
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"In this Color Correction with SpeedGrade and Premiere Pro training course, expert author Jeff Sengstack teaches you various color correction tools and techniques in Premiere Pro and SpeedGrade. You will start out by learning to work with color correction tools in Premiere Pro. Jeff will teach you how to analyze tonality and adjust it with the Luma curve video effect and numeric controls. You will also learn how to adjust color with the fast color...
390) Toc-toc, quién es?
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2006.
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En este libro ilustrado, tras cada puerta algún animal de cierto color hace su sonido hasta que al fin llega el perrito que el niño esperaba. Los lectores pueden adivinar quién se esconde detrás de las puertas.
When a boy wishes for a real friend to play with, a number of inappropriate animals of different colors come to his door and make sounds before a "just right" puppy appears.
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2019.
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Explore and create expressive palettes and paintings with Color Harmony for Artists.
Watercolor author, artist, and teacher Ana Victoria Calderon guides you through choosing, mixing, and using color with watercolor and mixed media to create the most expressive and appealing combinations and effects for a wide range of moods and subjects. You'll explore a variety of subjects and themes, including flowers, foliage, landscapes, skies, cities, figures,...
392) Forces of nature
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[2016]
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Take a global tour in four themed episodes, answering the simplest questions about the complex forces that shape our planet. Why is water blue? How can a shape defy gravity? Why do bees make hexagonal honeycombs? And how do these things affect our own lives? Discover what lies beneath Earth's startling beauty as we reveal the secrets of our cosmos and the natural forces that govern everything within it.
393) Colors! =: Colores!
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[2008]
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This bilingual, bicultural book presents us with a beautiful vision of a planet in which nature, words and the rising and setting of the sun and the moon exist in harmony.
Sumario en español: Este libro, bilingüe y bicultural, nos presenta el hermoso panorama de un planeta en el cual la naturaleza, las palabras, y la salida y puesta del sol y la luna coexisten en armonía.
394) A corner of white
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Struggling to cope with poverty and her mother's illness, fourteen-year-old Madeleine of Cambridge, England and fifteen-year-old Elliot of the Kingdom of Cello, a parallel world where colors are villainous and who has a missing father, begin exchanging notes through a crack between their worlds and find they can be of great help to each other.
395) Brown sugar babe
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[2020]
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English
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Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Women's History - Children
Women's History - Children
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"When a little girl has doubts about the color of her skin, her mother shows her all the wonderful, beautiful things brown can be! This message of self-love and acceptance uses rich, dreamy illustrations to celebrate the color using all the senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing"--
396) Brown boy joy
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[2018]
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English
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Netflix Bookmarks - Celebrating Black Voices series
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
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"This book is filled with all the things Little Brown Boys Love"--Back cover.
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[2017]
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Español
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"El pequeño pez blanco emprende la búsqueda de su mamá. En el camino, conocerá a otros personajes. Un libro lúdico para que los niños más pequeños aprendan, en español e inglés, los colores."--
As Little White Fish searches for his mother, he meets several other animals who do not look like his mother.
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Il semble que la question de l'harmonie colorée, pour les théoriciens, les enseignants et les spécialistes des sciences humaines, ait été réglée, une fois pour toutes, par Chevreul au XIXème siècle. Du moins, pour la plupart d'entre eux, car quelques auteurs contestent, à juste titre, la validité de la tyrannique « loi des complémentaires » de Chevreul, tandis que d'autres la défendent. Cet essai tente d'en finir avec les différentes...
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Experience wonder and excitement as you mindfully take your painting technique to the next level: It's Paint Alchemy. Part of the new Alchemy series, Paint Alchemy explores how to build a painting practice. Whether you're a novice or an experienced painter, you'll learn how to create freely by combining a foundation in solid techniques and design principles with an open approach that stays focused on the moment, rather than the end result. You will...
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