Archives: Walter Foster Books
Find your creativity and relax as you draw, doodle, and design over beautiful watercolor artwork.
Color in Reverse: Watercolor Florals comes from Heinke Nied, a one-line artist and illustrator who considers it her mission to make art accessible to everyone through simple instruction and approachable one-line drawings. With her helpful instruction, you can draw your own lines over her artwork. It’s satisfying, relaxing, and fun!
Filled with inspiring artwork featuring flowers, plants, abstract designs, and more, Color in Reverse: Watercolor Florals features:
- Sturdy paper and one-sided pages to cut out and display
- Pen and watercolor tips and techniques
- Short primers on tools and color theory
- Patterns, tracings, and designs that you may want to use in your own artwork within the book
Simply find relaxation and creative inspiration as you draw over the watercolor artwork with the drawing tool of your choice, or cut out the pages and use them as gifts, home decor, cards for loved ones, and more.
With colorful watercolor designs to spark your creativity, your own creations will flow with ease and joy.
Author Sarah J. Gardner has made it her mission to help others find their creativity and inspiration through mixed-media art. In Share Your Joy, she offers her idea for how to share joy via handmade postcards, note cards, and other items that can be mailed to anyone around the world and put a smile on their face. That’s where Sarah gets her joy, and with the techniques and step-by-step projects in this book, she will help you find it too.
Working on papers you have painted and that can be drawn and painted over (what Sarah calls “art papers”), you will learn to use collage, stenciling, found objects, watercolor and acrylic paints, and more to create art to share with others.
Included in the book are:
- Step-by-step projects for making shareable art
- Interviews with “art swappers” who’ve sent and received art for years
- Inspirational prompts, quotes, and affirmations to keep your creativity levels up
- Suggestions for how to make inspirational journals and sketchbooks to work inside
Experience the fun and happiness of making shareable, mixed-media art with Share Your Joy!
Practice the mindful art of hand embroidery with 18 gorgeous projects you can use to create home decor, upcycled clothing, and personalized gifts.
Creative Embroidery & Beyond expands on the best-selling Creative…and Beyond series, which includes Creative Lettering & Beyond, to focus on one of the most popular crafting methods out there: embroidery. In this visually stunning book that presents hand sewing as accessible and fun, three talented, on-trend artists—Jenny Billingham (@flynn_and_mabel), Theresa Wensing (@get.stitch.done), and Sophie Timms (@mindfulmantra_embroidery)—each present six designs. They are ideal for embroiderers of all skill levels, from total beginners to more advanced. You will find:
- Step-by-step embroidery projects featuring flowers, animals, insects, and more
- Instructions for how to embroider on denim, hats, and t-shirts
- Primers on essential stitches, including whipstitch and satin stitch
- Information on embroidery tools and how to use them
- Advice for threads and brands to use
- And so much more
Embroidery is a fun, accessible art medium that’s proven relaxing and mindful for millions of crafters around the world. Make your own embroidered gifts and more with Creative Embroidery & Beyond.
Author and artist Lauren Bergstrom is your guide to creating great big, huggable crochet creatures—perfect for baby gifts, birthday gifts for kids, quirky home decor, and more. You’ll be surprised by how quickly you can create these cuties using bulky yarn and a large crochet hook!
Cute & Cuddly Crochet begins with an introduction to tools and materials and a review of basic crochet techniques, followed by tips and tricks for stuffing your amigurumi, adding eyes, trying different sizes, making your circles rounder, and adding embellishments. Then leap right into crocheting these supercute critters:
- Flamingo
- French Bulldog
- Dinosaur
- Elephant
- Fox
- Lion
- Llama
- Octopus
- Platypus
- Sloth
- Red Panda
- Narwhal
Get hooked on crocheting cute and cuddly creatures with this beginner-friendly book, perfect for crafters, makers, DIYers, teens, and adults.
The Art Makers series is designed for beginning artists and arts-and-crafts enthusiasts who are interested in experiencing fun hands-on mediums, including polymer clay and embroidery.
Also available from the series:Empowered Embroidery, Polymer Clay for Beginners, Papier Mache, Make Cute Stuff with Polymer Clay, and Polymer Clay Jewelry.
Learn to make fun, colorful, modern, on-trend earrings from polymer clay.
In Polymer Clay Jewelry, Author Rachael Skidmore—owner of the popular online shop and social-media channels Made by Maeberry—takes a fresh, contemporary approach to this classic craft. Through her easy-to-follow photographic steps and clear instructions, you can make your own contemporary earrings in a variety of colors and styles.
Among the topics covered in the book:
- Tools and materials
- Clay conditioning
- Color mixing
- How to choose a color palette
- Clay curing and baking
- Painting clay
- How to add earring backs
Once you’re familiar with these important introductory topics, learn to make colorful abstract earrings, hoops of various sizes and styles, rainbows, shells, hammered “metal,”statement jewelry, and much more—all from polymer clay! Also included in the book are beautiful photographs of all of the pieces, suggestions for customizing colors and styles, images of color palettes and alternative ideas, and so much more.
Polymer clay is lightweight, inexpensive, and infinitely customizable. Polymer Clay Jewelry is perfect for makers and jewelry enthusiasts of all skill levels!
The Art Makers series is designed for beginning artists and arts-and-crafts enthusiasts who are interested in experiencing fun hands-on mediums, including polymer clay and embroidery.
Also available from the series: Polymer Clay for Beginners, Papier Mache, Empowered Embroidery, and Make Cute Stuff with Polymer Clay.
Learn how to create your own Deep Impasto® masterpieces using a palette knife and oil paints with this book featuring tips, techniques, and 8 complete step-by-step projects.
Professional artist Lisa Elley works from her studio in the San Francisco Bay Area with the purpose of inspiring and bringing joy to people through her art. In Palette Knife Painting: Deep Impasto, Lisa shares her techniques with you through easy-to-follow step-by-step projects.
Learn to paint:
- Art inspired by Vincent van Gogh
- Seascapes and landscapes
- A Tuscan vineyard
- Flower fields
- Wet-into-wet (alla prima)
- With texture
- And more!
Also included in the book are:
- Primers on the best palette knives and paints to use
- Color mixing and color theory instructions
- Beautiful, textured artwork that seems to lift off the page
Palette Knife Painting: Deep Impasto is ideal for artists of all skill levels looking to learn to paint and scrape with oil paint.
Also from the Paint with Me series:Vibrant Watercolor. The Paint with Me series highlights well-known artists and their work in visually appealing and instructive books.
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SERIES, now in English! More than 2.3 million copies sold in 23 languages!
Perfect for beginners, the Big School of Drawing Workbook begins with basic pencil techniques, such as shading, crosshatching, and adding texture. Then follow along as you use those pencil techniques to create detailed step-by-step drawings, with space provided on each page for you to practice, as you learn to create your own realistic drawings.
Companion to the original Big School of Drawing reference book, this 112-page interactive workbook provides beginning artists with a focused, hands-on approach to learning.
Practice directly inside the book, with more than 50 step-by-step drawing lessons, including:
- Pencil techniques
- Adding shading, texture, and highlights
- Drawing from basic shapes
- Flowers and still life
- Trees, rocks, and landscapes
- Architecture and perspective
- Animals, dogs, cats, and horses
- People and portraits
With helpful tips and easy-to-follow, step-by-step lessons, Big School of Drawing is the perfect series for beginning artists ready to grab a pencil and get started drawing. With practice, you’ll soon be able to create your own realistic pencil drawings. It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3.
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SERIES, now in English! More than 2.3 million copies sold in 23 languages!
Big School of Drawing allows beginning artists to get started drawing anything and everything, from flowers and still life to animals, people, landscapes, and more! Learn to develop your sketches from basic shapes, adding texture and shading step by step to create realistic, three-dimensional drawings.
Perfect for beginners, this 192-page reference guide explains everything you need to get started, from choosing the right materials to basic drawing techniques and step-by-step lessons. Experiment with different pencils, drawing tools, and erasers as you learn to create depth and realism with shading techniques, perspective, and texture. Then follow along as you use those pencil techniques to create detailed drawings, step by easy step.
With more than 1,000 step-by-step drawings for you to reference, Big School of Drawing covers:
- Sketching from basic shapes
- Gesture drawing
- Adding shading, texture, and highlights
- Creating depth and realism
- Perspective and foreshortening
- How to draw flowers, still life, and landscapes
- How to draw animals, horses, dogs, and cats
- How to draw people, portraits, and more
With helpful tips and easy-to-follow, step-by-step lessons, Big School of Drawing is the perfect series for beginning artists ready to grab a pencil and get started drawing. With practice, you’ll soon be able to create your own realistic pencil drawings. It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3.
Also available as a companion: Big School of Drawing Workbook, a 112-page interactive workbook allowing artists to practice their step-by-step drawing skills directly inside the book.
Color your way through 1990s pop culture with Best of the ’90s Coloring Book!
Mix coloring with nostalgia, and you have an upbeat activity book that is also therapeutic, for a fun and relaxing escape from life’s stresses. With almost 50 nostalgic illustrations, this high-quality coloring book lets you color some of the most memorable moments from the 1990s. With your choice of coloring tools, revisit everything in this decade, from Tamagotchis and Beanie Babies to the Spice Girls and NSYNC.
This coloring book’s high-quality paper allows you to color with your choice of colored pencils, crayons, markers, and more. The one-sided printing helps avoid coloring bleed-through and allows for easy display of finished pieces, which include:
- Movie scenes including Titanic, Home Alone, and Clueless
- Music icons such as Nirvana, Ricky Martin, NSYNC, and Britney Spears
- Fashion staples such as flannel shirts, baggy jeans, and “The Rachel” haircut
- Technology such as dial-up internet, compact discs, and cell phones
- Toys such as Tamagotchis, Beanie Babies, video games, and pogs
Grab your coloring tools and travel back to the days of cassette tapes and dial-up internet, grunge fashion and “The Rachel” haircut, Blockbuster Hollywood films and boy band heartthrobs with your copy of Best of the ’90s Coloring Book!
The Color Through the Decades coloring book series allow you to revisit and reminisce about your favorite time periods. Also available in this series is Best of the ’80s Coloring Book.
Color your way through 1980s pop culture with Best of the ’80s Coloring Book!
Mix coloring with nostalgia, and you have an upbeat activity book that is also therapeutic, for a fun and relaxing escape from life’s stresses. With almost 50 nostalgic illustrations, this high-quality coloring book lets you color some of the most memorable moments from the 1980s. With your choice of coloring tools, revisit everything in this decade, from TV and movie icons, such as Mr. T and Freddy Krueger, to music stars, such as Guns N' Roses and Madonna.
This coloring book’s high-quality paper allows you to color with your choice of colored pencils, crayons, markers, and more. The one-sided printing helps avoid coloring bleed-through and allows for easy display of finished pieces, which include:
- Movie scenes from The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Footloose, and Nightmare on Elm Street
- Music icons such as Guns N' Roses, Whitney Houston, and Madonna
- Fashion staples such as big hair and shoulder pads
- Technology such as boom boxes, computers, and arcade games
Grab your coloring tools and travel back to the days of big hair and shoulder pads, early computers and video games, MTV pop stars and teen movie heartthrobs with your copy of Best of the ’80s Coloring Book!
The Color Through the Decades coloring book series allows you to revisit and reminisce about your favorite time periods. Also available in this series is Best of the ’90s Coloring Book.