Includes drawings of plants, animals, landscapes, and other aspects of nature in each season, with comments from the artist on how and why he drew them.

Make the world your studio! Capture the bustle and beauty of life in your town. Experience life as only an artist can! Join the rapidly growing, international movement of artists united by a passion for drawing on location in the cities, towns and villages where they live and travel. Packed with art and advice from Marc Taro Holmes, artist and co-founder of Urbansketchers.org, this self-directed workshop shows you how to draw inspiration from real life and bring that same excitement into your sketchbook. Inside you'll find everything you need to tackle subjects ranging from still lifes and architecture to people and busy street scenes. • 15 step-by-step demonstrations cover techniques for creating expressive drawings using pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor. • Expert tips for achieving a balance of accuracy, spontaneity and speed. • Practical advice for working in the field, choosing subjects, coping with onlookers, capturing people in motion and more. • Daily exercises and creative prompts for everything from improving essential skills to diverse approaches, such as montages, storytelling portraits and one-page graphic novels. Whether you are a habitual doodler or a seasoned artist, The Urban Sketcher will have you out in the world sketching from the very first page. By completing drawings on the spot, in one session, you achieve a fresh impression of not just what you see, but also what it feels like to be there . . . visual life stories as only you can experience them.

HE LANDSCAPES, ENHANCED EDITION by American Artist Richard Schmid. A large full color book of the landscape paintings of the American Artist Richard Schmid with text by Richard Schmid. 268 pages. Over 300 full color images. This book covers the career of Richard Schmid's seventy years as a painter of landscapes. This is the visual tale of an artist and his lifelong romance with the colors and light of our earth. Richard reveals what it is like to go out and capture life as it is happening, in addition, stories about the adventures of painting outdoors from life throughout the United States and many other countries. This Enhanced Edition represents the very latest advances in printing color images. Over a dozen new small drawings. and over 100 new captions written by Richard Schmid have been added as well.

Part testimonial, part instructional and part demonstrative, this book describes the author's personal experiences travel sketching in and around the city of Istanbul Turkey. Using dozens of ink-and-watercolor illustrations, along with detailed captions, he breaks down his travel sketching endeavors into three modes of sketching, each describing different states of mind, different expectations and different outcomes, each with its unique rewards. From big-picture, "whys" to highly detailed "hows", this book draws the reader into the joys, challenges and satisfaction of observing and remembering places visited through the lens of travel sketching.

A retired Arizona cop, Scott Riker, lives with his wife and daughter in Quebec City where he heads a group of problem-solvers. Directed by Quebec business mogul and philanthropist, Luc Duchesne, the group uses their talents and resources to stand between people in trouble and the criminal elements who would do them harm. In Her Book of Shadows, Riker agrees to find a teenage girl, Jodie Burke, whose parents say ran away to Quebec City from Connecticut. When Jodie's friend turns up murdered on the Plains of Abraham, however, it becomes clear that Riker faces something more than just a runaway girl. He races to find Jodie and prevent whoever is trying to kill her from succeeding.