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Pocket Art: Your 100 Day Creative Journey by Lorna Scobie
$23.00 NZD
Category: Art
Pocket Art features100 art activities to do on your daily art work-out. Bringing creativity into daily life, Lorna Scobie encourages you to react to the present, and to live more in the moment through simple, observational-based art activities. Through creative prompts and quick-sketches – which you can ...Show more
Art-tastic (HB) by Sarah Pepperle; Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
$30.00 NZD
Category: Art
This Art-tastic activity book has some of the best art you'll ever see in Aotearoa New Zealand. And don't freak out, but you'll probably learn stuff too. By the time you've finished, you'll have your own artists' workbook full of artworks that will possibly make you famous at home (if not around the wo ...Show more
Secret Garden Colouring Book by Johanna Basford
$26.00 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 3-4, Age 8-9
Good news for all SECRET GARDEN fans All editions of SECRET GARDEN now feature thicker and heavier paper stock, fighting bleed-through from ink pens. Experience the phenomenon that has sold 11 million copies worldwide and launched the coloring craze for adults. This beautiful and interactive col ...Show more
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles
$40.00 NZD
Category: Art
This is the paperback edition of the highly successful Chromatopia. Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic colour; or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? Throughout history, artists' pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dun ...Show more
Me, According to the History of Art by Dick Frizzell
$65.00 NZD
Category: Art
A FAST-PACED ROMP THROUGH THE HISTORY OF WESTERN PAINTING WITH ONE OF NEW ZEALAND'S BEST-KNOWN PAINTERS. Throughout his long career, New Zealand painter Dick Frizzell has often goneway out on a limb to see where it would take him. From his early Pop art influenced approach to his experiments with landsc ...Show more
Millie Marotta's Woodland Wild by Millie Marotta
$25.00 NZD
Category: Art | Series: Millie Marotta Ser.
Go into the woods with Millie Marotta The New York Times bestselling artist has created a stunning coloring book filled with forest-dwelling creatures. In the sixth installment of her wildly popular coloring book series, Millie Marotta takes us through the woodlands of the world. More than 90 intricat ...Show more
Flower Colour Theory by Darroch Putnam; Michael Putnam
$60.00 NZD
Category: Art
Leading floral designers Putnam & Putnam are back - now with the ultimate flower-arrangement reference book The follow-up to Darroch and Michael Putnam's acclaimed bestselling debut, Flower Color Theoryis the only guide that uses color theory as inspiration for flower arrangements. The book feature ...Show more
Paul Dibble - X - A Decade of Sculpture 2010-2020 by Fran Dibble
$70.00 NZD
Category: Art
Paul Dibble has traversed many subjects in his sculptural work - often returning to them years later, like godwits coming home to roost. Between 2010 and 2020, human figures and native New Zealand flora and fauna have been among Dibble's oft-revisited subjects, his work refining these figures to their s ...Show more
The Pursuit of Art - Travels, Encounters and Revelations by Martin Gayford
$19.00 NZD
Category: Sale Book
In the course of a career thinking and writing about art, critic Martin Gayford has traveled all over the world both to see works of art and to meet artists. Gayford's journeys, often to fairly inaccessible places, involve frustrations and complications, but also serendipitous encounters and outcomes, w ...Show more
New Zealand A Painted Journey by Graham Young
$15.00 NZD
Category: Sale Book | Reading Level: very good
Journey through the painted landscape of New Zealand seen through the eyes of artist Graham Young as he endeavors to capture the character and motifs of the various regions with his colourful paintings coupled with his own thoughts of his travels. These paintings represent snapshots of the laid back kiw ...Show more
Giles - The Collection: 2013 by Hamlyn
$9.00 NZD
Category: Sale Book
Enjoy the 20th century's greatest cartoonist's work once more with this superb collection of some of Giles' wittiest cartoons. His cartoons parodied every aspect of British life and have delighted Daily Express readers for over four decades. This brand new compilation includes 150 cartoons that focus on ...Show more
The Back of the Painting - Secrets and Stories from Art Conservation by Linda Waters; Sarah Hillary; Jenny Sherman
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art
Behind the scenes with the experts on famous paintings. The seal of the Prince of Yugoslavia, the icon that protected persecuted Russians, Monets repurposed canvas, the excised first wife, the stolen Tissot ... all these stories can be found on the backs of paintings in New Zealand art museums. This fas ...Show more
