Archives: Walter Foster Books
Craft adorable, trendy felt miniatures with this book of step-by-step tutorials and projects, featuring beautiful photos that illustrate easy felting techniques.
From self-taught artist Delilah Iris, Sew Cute!: Tiny Felt Cuties & Creatures includes more than a dozen patterns for making tiny animals, dolls, dollhouses, props, adorable gifts, and miniature play sets. The projects can be created as stand-alone finished works, but they can also be used to complement each other in a complete set for use in a tiny miniature world!
If you have been looking for new crafting techniques to learn at home and don’t want to buy a lot of tools and materials, creating felt miniatures is the perfect choice. Felting does not require a sewing machine and can be done using simple hand stitches and embroidery, all of which are demonstrated in the book along with stylized photo tutorials. Also included are detailed doll patterns, suggestions for materials to have on hand, and much more.
Sew Cute!: Tiny Felt Cuties & Creatures will help you create your own tiny world of animals, dolls, fairy houses, and more.
With Cross Stitch Celebrations: Graduation, learn to create personalized graduation announcements, congratulations, and additional keepsakes for education-related accomplishments.
Whether you are an absolute beginner in cross stitch or a seasoned pro, Cross Stitch Celebrations: Graduation shows you how to create highly giftable personalized keepsakes for the accomplished students in your life. This step-by-step guide includes all of the basic instruction you need to learn the art of cross stitch. Following a brief introduction to tools and materials and an overview of basic cross stitch techniques, you will be treated to:
- 30+ charming patterns
- A range of mix-and-match fonts, border designs, color schemes, and education-themed motifs
- Techniques on how to compose a DIY design
- Tips for framing and displaying finished projects
The more than 30 patterns include a variety of border designs, alphabets, and color schemes to choose from and combine to make a truly special gift for any educational accomplishment. Just some of the things you can cross stitch are a wall hanging, mortarboard, pennant, and greeting card, complete with a message and themed motifs, such as a trophy, music notes, paint palette, beaker, stethoscope, and more. Whether it is for a graduation, winning a spelling bee, or the first day of kindergarten, you can create the perfect personalized gift for every student in your life.
Whether you are new to cross stitch or already skilled in the craft, the Cross Stitch Celebrations series teaches you how to create personalized pieces that celebrate life’s major milestones. Including all of the basics you need to start stitching, and with the ability to mix and match the fonts, border designs, color schemes, and motifs featured inside each book, the possibilities are endless!
With 78 supercute kawaii illustrations to color and enjoy, Kawaii Tarot Coloring Book offers an adorable escape into the mystical world of tarot.
For centuries, tarot decks have taken many forms, and thousands of different art styles have graced their cards. But has there ever before been a cuter tarot deck? In Kawaii Tarot Coloring Book, the Major Arcana cards, which represent archetypes drawn from mythology and medieval society, include a lucky cat as The Fool, a fluffy unicorn as the High Priestess, a fancy Poodle as The Empress, and two cuddly bunnies as The Lovers. The cards of the Minor Arcana are also packed with silly and cute creatures, all waiting for you to color them in!
Join best-selling artist Lulu Mayo as you color your way through the 78 cards of the tarot deck. Inspired by supercute kawaii characters, Lulu Mayo drew each card in the Major and Minor Arcana in the most adorable way possible.
This delightful coloring book features:
- Lulu Mayo’s lovable creations, from cats, bunnies, and puppies to llamas and sloths
- More than 75 illustrations, featuring each card of the tarot deck
- Thick, high-quality paper so you can color using your choice of colored pencils, markers, and more, without worrying about the color bleeding through
A perfect choice for:
- Coloring book hobbyists
- Tarot enthusiasts
- Aspiring kawaii artists
- Animal lovers and doodlers
Kawaii Tarot Coloring Book allows coloring enthusiasts of all ages to enjoy and discover the art of tarot in an adorable new way, with the most aww-inspiring kawaii cuties!
Modern calligraphy uses a brush pen and paper to create beautiful, hand-lettered art. Now you can learn to form your own whimsical, inspired artwork with the help of Modern Calligraphy.
Unlike traditional calligraphy, which typically uses a pen to form consistent letters that follow stricter guidelines, modern calligraphy allows you to personalize your hand-lettered art. There are fewer rules, which adds to the fun! You can add color, florals, and other embellishments, and the process is more relaxing and whimsical. It’s ideal for beginning calligraphers and anyone else looking to make hand-lettered art without a lot of guidelines.
Modern Calligraphy features step-by-step projects for using a brush pen and paper to form letters, words, and embellishments. Once you’ve learned the basics of brush lettering, use the helpful tips and gorgeous artwork to create your own elegant-but-fun lettered artwork. Then you can hand-letter anything you like, from address labels on envelopes to party invitations, letters to loved ones, cards, decorative artwork, maps, and so much more.
Learn the art of brush lettering with Modern Calligraphy!
Specifically geared toward beginning and aspiring artists of all ages, 101 Super Cute Things to Draw features:
- More than 100 easy-to-follow drawing projects that help you quickly learn to create super cute illustrations in a super simple way.
- Adorable animals, darling little foods, enchanting everyday objects, and nifty natural wonders, all designed for maximum delight.
- Basic art instruction, including information about tools and materials, combining colors, and creating patterns that sets you up for success so you can enjoy the creative process of drawing.
101 Super Cute Things to Draw is perfect for beginners, as well as young artists, with its simple illustrations and easy-to-follow drawing steps. For those who want to learn how to draw everything adorable and amusing, this book is for you! With this book, you’ll learn to draw:
- Everyday objects, including a teapot, balloons, and a terrarium
- Food, including a cinnamon bun, a sushi roll, and strawberries
- Nature, including a mushroom, a tiny forest, and a rainbow and cloud
- Animals, including a red panda, a sloth, and a cow
- Mythical creatures, including a yeti, a dragon, and a jackalope
So grab your pencils, some paper, and a copy 101 Super Cute Things to Draw to create plenty of giggle-worthy drawings!
Bursting with humor and imagination, books in the 101 Things to Draw series will put a smile on your face with original mash-ups, step-by-step drawing instructions, doodling exercises, and mindfulness activities.
With Paper Collage Workshop, you can experience the joy of creativity as you use color swatches torn from magazines to transform photos into original collages.
In addition to taking you through both foundational collage activities and intermediate-level projects, this book introduces you to a unique analog-grid system, a color-based collage technique developed by the artist Samuel Price over the past 20 years. Whatever your age or skill level, you will be able to add focus and precision to your creations and turn life into art.
Organized by level of difficulty, the book is designed to progressively build skills as you complete projects. Beginning with color-based lessons, you will learn how to use form and line, and then move on to create landscapes, abstracts, and pets. You will delight in completing beautiful projects you can frame and display in your own home.
Color collage is a mindfulness practice. Like a coloring book, Paper Collage Workshop is a personal meditative experience that quiets and focuses the mind—a great way to experience some true peace as you create. Whether practiced and exercised in tiny doses or taken all at once, the process of making art is truly transformative and relaxing with Paper Collage Workshop.
Whether you are completely new to cross stitch or already skilled in the craft, Cross Stitch Celebrations: Bundle of Joy! teaches you how to create highly giftable personalized keepsakes for a new baby. This step-by-step guide includes all of the basics you need to learn the art of cross stitch. Following a brief introduction to tools and materials and an overview of basic cross stitch techniques, you will be treated to:
- 20+ charming patterns that reflect baby and nursery aesthetics
- A range of mix-and-match fonts, border designs, color schemes, and baby animal motifs
- Techniques on how to compose a DIY design
- Tips for framing and displaying finished projects
Create the perfect personalized gift for every new parent and grandparent in your life. With the ability to mix and match, the possibilities are endless!
Whether you are new to cross stitch or already skilled in the craft, the Cross Stitch Celebrations series teaches you how to create personalized pieces that celebrate life’s major milestones. Including all of the basics you need to start stitching, and with the ability to mix and match the fonts, border designs, color schemes, and motifs featured inside each book, you can create custom cross stitch in no time!
Explore 35 step-by-step how-tos and more than 100 additional tips and tricks for creating a variety of manga characters, animals, and scenes in The Art of Drawing Manga.
With 144 pages of in-depth instruction and hundreds of reference images, The Art of Drawing Manga is suitable for all manga artists and enthusiasts, regardless of age. From learning the basics of drawing archetypal characters with intriguing personalities to creating action-packed poses and even drawing entire manga scenes from scratch, this is the ultimate guide to creating all things manga. Perfect for manga fans who already have some drawing experience, but also suitable for motivated beginners, this book shows how to draw people and animals, develop intriguing characters, create eye-catching poses and scenes, and write stories and dialog for a manga book.
- All instruction is easy to follow, so you can quickly learn to draw different faces and expressions, hairstyles, clothing and accessories, animals (both real and fictional), heroes, villains, sidekicks, and so much more.
- Step-by-step instructions make the drawing process approachable for aspiring artists who already have some background in drawing.
- Projects range from simple and easy chibis to more detailed scenes with multiple characters in action poses.
- Also included are tips for developing your own style, while looking to common styles for inspiration.
- Templates at the end of the book allow for easy practice of character faces and poses.
With everything you need to start in the world of manga, The Art of Drawing Manga is your ultimate guide to creating your own characters and developing your own original manga books and stories.
The Collector’s Series offers approachable, step-by-step art instruction for a variety of mediums and subjects, such as drawing, oil, acrylic, watercolor, cartooning, calligraphy, and more. Perfect for beginning artists, each title features artist tips for drawing or painting anything and everything from people, animals, and still life to flowers, trees, and landscapes.
Through a collection of 12 detailed, full-color patterns, aspiring and established embroidery artists will discover how to employ the art of thread painting to create a range of popular birds and waterfowl from around the world, including North America, the Amazon rain forest, and Europe.
Thread painting is the name for using single strands of embroidery floss to create lifelike images with beautifully blended gradients of color and detail. Fortunately, the process is not as hard as it sounds! After learning a bit about how to create gradients and blend colors, anyone can create incredible embroidered masterpieces.
- A primer on embroidery materials, setup, and thread painting techniques
- Patterns that indicate where each color should go and when the gradients should begin
- For each project, step-by-step instructions and reference images of the finished piece
Explore the basics of color theory and color mixing, and then apply your new skills to create your own beautiful floral watercolor paintings, step by colorful step.
Color theory and color mixing are essential topics for all artists to know, and Contemporary Color Theory: Watercolor Flowers covers both in an easy-to-follow way with simple, actionable steps that any artist can do. Learn how to:
- Mix paint colors
- Avoid “dirty” mixes (those that look too brown, for example)
- Create your own color wheel
- Create neutral colors and pastels
- Mix vintage colors
- And much more
This book is ideal for all skill levels and ages, and while it focuses on watercolor, the same tips and techniques can be applied to other media as well, including acrylic, oil, and gouache.
Once you’re familiar with color theory and feel comfortable creating your own color mixes, dive into the step-by-step painting projects. Each project is done in the style seen on the author’s popular Instagram account (@thewhimsicalcreative) and features beautiful, romantic florals painted in watercolor. Learn how to paint floral wreaths, bouquets, and different types of leaves and plants.
Contemporary Color Theory: Watercolor Flowerscombines the essential topics of color theory and color mixing with watercolor painting projects for a comprehensive book that’s perfect for beginning and aspiring artists.