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Clearvue History Through Art Series
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Clearvue History Through Art Series - $84.95

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These videos bring history to life through 2000 glorious works of art, accompanied by superb music and insightful narration. The series presents nine eras of western civilization, from Ancient Greece to the 20th Century, as seen through the government, social life, religion, and artwork of each period. Animated maps and time lines clearly define the places and periods being discussed. Each title includes a comprehensive teacher's guide that identifies all works of art used in the program. These guides suggest uses for the material in history, art,and music classes. In addition, they offer study questions, classroom activities, student projects, historical background information, biographies of artists, narration scripts, and recommended reading lists. Build an entire course, or select any program for use in a cross-curricular program of study. The average time is 41 minutes. History Through Art is also available on CD-ROM. The CD-ROM version contains an audio-visual presentation, with the text linked to a complete 24-volume student encyclopedia and a glossary of important words. The programs also include many multiple-choice questions which link either to the audio-visual presentation or to the encyclopedia, encouraging further study. The questions can be accessed during the presentations, or they can be grouped in quiz formats. It is compatible with Macintosh, Windows, and MS-DOS platforms.
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Conte Crayons bistre box of 12 - Conte has been manufacturing the finest artists' materials available for more than 200 years. Many of the world's greatest artists, including Picasso, Delacroix, and Degas, have created world famous drawings with Conte crayons. You will be pleased with the unbounding beauty that can be achieved with the consistent quality of these fine drawing materials. Conte Crayons are specifically formulated and designed for drawing and sketching. They are made in a unique shape and can be broken for easier use. Conte Crayons can be sharpened to a chisel tip with a sanding pad for more detailed work, or can be used on its side to shade larger areas. The rich opacity of these crayons make them ideal for work on darker papers. The quality ensures the longevity of drawings. The white and black crayons are available in 3 hardness degrees including HB, B, and 2B. The other colors are equal to a B in hardness. The gray is a middle shade of gray. Bistre is the darkest, most earthy brown in this group. Sanguine medicis is the darkest of the sanguines, sanguine watteau is a shade lighter and a little more red oxide. Sanguine XVIII is a shade lighter than the watteau but with the same amount of red oxide and the natural sanguine is the lightest shade with the same red oxide as watteau and XVIII.


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North Light The Watercolor Bible The Watercolor Bible ISBN: 1581806485 - The Watercolor Bible is your complete and definitive book on watercolor techniques and principles, jam-packed with indispensable advice for nearly every aspect of working with the medium. Although this book is loaded with information, it's presented in a friendly, straightforward, heavily illustrated way so that it's not at all overwhelming. It will guide you every stroke of the way, from the basics of stretching paper, creating your own value scale and transferring a drawing to the more advanced challenges of mingling edge qualities, fixing mistakes, and painting shadows, skin tones and skies. The final chapter is the best of all, worthy of a book in itself It consists of a series of step-by-step projects -- great practice for applying all that you've learned, and the perfect place to turn when you're feeling stuck for inspiration. The Watercolor Bible maintains a wonderful balance between understanding the rules and staying true to the voice within. Whether you work through this book beginning to end or refer to it as needed during your painting, every page will help you build skills as you develop your own unique style. You'll find yourself referring to it constantly; its user-friendly, wire-o binding makes it easy to flip open during a painting sessions, and its handy 6x9 format makes it small enough to take anywhere. Book specifications: hardcover, 304 pgs., 7 in. x 9 1/4 in. Publisher: North Light, 2006.