Thursday, November 28, 2019

Draw Every Little Thing Review & GIVEAWAY

Don't know what to draw? The world around you contains an abundance of drawing inspiration. Learn how to see it with Draw Every Little Thing: Learn to draw more than 100 everyday items, from food to fashion by Flora Waycott artist and illustrator. Flora shares how she learned to look more closely at her environment while developing her own drawing practice. She begins with an introduction that covers How to Use This Book, Finding Inspiration, Tools & Materials, Drawing & Painting Techniques and Color Basics. Her preferred tools are a mechanical pencil and gouache paint, though she also uses black fineliner pens, a nib pen and ink and colored pencils. There are 4 themed sections - Around the Home, Get Outside!, Everyday Life and Around Town. Each of these subjects has several creative prompts and exercises to get you drawing and painting. Lastly, she shows how to use your colored drawings on three lovely paper craft projects. If like me, you adore Flora's work (it has a wonderful folksy charm) and want to glean all of the ideas and tips for drawing and painting you can. Or if you're looking for fun practice, her pretty new book offers a variety of ways to improve your illustrations. Walter Foster Publishing released this 128 page paperback on October 1, 2019. A Kindle edition is available. Get your copy below!


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS

Introduction

How to Use This Book
Finding Inspiration
Tools & Materials
Drawing & Painting Techniques
Color Basics

Around the Home
Creative Prompt: Vases
Creative Prompt: Today's Outfit
Creative Prompt: Pets
Exercise: Tea Tin
Exercise: Kitchen Shelves
Exercise: Houseplants & Pets
Exercise: Japanese Meal

Get Outside!
Creative Prompt: Gardening Tools
Creative Prompt: Vegetable Garden
Exercise: Plants
Exercise: Local Park
Exercise: Insects

Everyday Life
Creative Prompt: Pencil Case
Creative Prompt: Lamps
Exercise: Desk
Exercise: Office Supplies
Exercise: Sewing Machine

Around Town
Creative Prompt: Bicycle
Creative Prompt: Mailboxes
Exercise: House
Exercise: Cafe
Exercise: Local Map

Crafting Projects
Concertina Book
Card & Envelope
Bookmark

About the Artist


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Japanese Meal Exercise,  page 48.


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Around Town, page 92. One of Flora's full-page illustrations found throughout on large 22.4 x 29.7 cm (8.8 x 11.7 inches) pages.




Creative Prompt: Today's Outfit





Exercise: Tiny Plants 

Back cover of my copy.

Draw Every Little Thing ISBN-13: 978-1633228016 is available worldwide at Walter Foster. Walter Foster is a division of the Quarto Publishing Group USA. Walter Foster is one of the most recognized names in art instruction. Check out their unique catalog at Walter Foster. Quarto has generously offered to giveaway a copy! One winner will be selected at random. Open until December 12, 2019. Canadian and USA addresses only. Good luck!


23 comments:

  1. I also like the book Pocket Art: Portrait Drawing

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  2. the little people would be nice to have

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  3. My brother would love the Pocket Art Portrait Drawing. Thanks for the chance.

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  4. I would love the biography of Marie Curie.
    Marilyn

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  5. I would also love to give Greta and the Giants! Sounds amazing!

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  6. I would love to give my daughter How to Draw Almost Every Day she loves to draw.

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  7. I would love the biography of Marie Curie.

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  8. Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating would be a fabulous book that I could gift to my oldest son, he bakes all the birthday cakes and loves to make them special.

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  9. The book Letting in the Dog looks interesting.

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  10. I would like Winter Sleep for my granddaughter.

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  11. I would really love to own The Draw Any Animal Book
    Over 150 Simple Step-by-Step Drawing Sequences for Every Kind of Creature
    jan

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  12. I would love like to buy some of the art books for my son, like the one about drawing dogs and puppies. I actually went through and had four books in my cart, but the shipping charges to Canada are crazy!

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  13. I like the Ultimate Slime kids activity book.

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  14. The Little Fir Tree looks sweet for my daughters.

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  15. I like Marie Curie by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara.

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  16. An ABC of Equality
    by Chana Ginelle Ewing and Paulina Morgan so cute

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  17. I think my daughter would like the Animation Lab for Kids.

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  18. I'd also like to have this book: Anywhere, Anytime Art: Watercolor.

    Nancy
    allibrary (at) aol (dot) com

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  19. I would like to receive Low Sugar, So Simple

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  20. I would love to give Clever Baby to my youngest grandson.

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  21. I'd love to look at Cat Lady Embroidery

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  22. I would love to have the Brilliantly Vivid Color-by-Number: Flowers and Mandalas Book!

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