With this next step in our rose lessons, David will show you how to add beautiful casual elegance to your compositions. With these four lessons, David will show you how to work on a dry background as well as use modified color to create new looks. David will show you how to add "broken color" within the roses to create additional depth and interest. This new book will also feature petal techniques and casual detail methods. These fun and creative techniques will inspire you to paint new styles of roses.

The focus of this new series is to create a mechanism for you to paint beautiful freehand rose compositions. This 6 step process or mechanism will be shown in several lesson in the book as well as 3 painting lessons. The series will be several books and DVDs all working together to give you more techniques and a visual picture on how to develop your own style of painting artistic roses.Volume 1 is the cornerstone of this series. In volume 1 you will learn a 6 step process for visualizing roses and shown some concepts for developing light, shadows and deep in rose compositions. Volume 1 will focus on color usage, shapes, lost and found edges, arrangement, and gaze of roses. Volume 1 will show you how to establish some basic shapes that also leave the door open for various styles of petal decorations that will be presented in later volumes. Join us for this wonderful journey showing various ways to paint the queen of all flowers, the rose. BrushesThis series uses the Paint It Simply Intermediate Brush Kit. PaletteThis series uses the Paint It Simply Beginner Color Kit and the following colors;Pine GreenBurnt SiennaYellow OxideQuinacridone VioletDioxazine Purple

THE PRICE OF VENGEANCE Nine years ago, Sakuya lost her home and sister to a powerful Void Lord. She’s dedicated her life to fighting the Voids ever since. However, when a group of the Sakura Orchid’s greatest fighters, the Kenki Gathering, contact her with a plan to use the Seventh Assault Garden as bait for the Void Lord, she’s left in a difficult position. While she wants revenge, it can’t come at the cost of her new home, but Sakuya can’t stop the Kenki Gathering by herself. Fortunately, she knows someone who might be able to help...a Dark Lord!

Now thirteen years old, Arcus crushes the entrance exam for the Royal Institute of Magic, and he soon begins his new life as a student. Disowned for his supposed lack of ability, he makes waves both good and bad when he quickly outstrips his distinguished peers, rising to the top of his class. His success does not escape the notice of Claudia Saifice, granddaughter of the Institute’s headmaster. What exactly does she have in store for him?

Once upon a time I made a deal with the devil. It turns out I like playing in the dark. Over the years, I’ve become someone I’m proud of, someone dangerous. I’ll never be as dangerous as Malone, though. She’s one of the most feared leaders in Carver City, and her reputation is more than earned. Years ago, we had a single night together and she’s ignored me ever since. Imagine my surprise to discover she’s scheduled me for the final two weeks of my contract. Maybe I should be afraid. Everyone else fears Malone. Instead, all I feel is anticipation. It’s time to balance the scales, once and for all. The villains aren’t the only ones in Carver City a person should be wary of crossing. Sometimes the prettiest flower hides the deadliest poison…

Out of a pilgrimage to Easter Island late in Neruda's life grew a sequence of poems through which he observes the remnants of the ancient world in opposition to modernity.