Books with author Martin Ursell

Kids can frighten their friends, scare their sisters, and bother their brothers with dreadful drawings of menacing monstersThe perfect book for complete beginners or budding artists, this handbook has step-by-step guidelines for getting started; tips on color, shape, technique, and materials; and useful notes on how to use a sketchbook. It's packed with fantastic pictures and wonderful ideas on how to draw all sorts of fearsome monsters, mythical beasts, ghastly ghouls, and terrifying creatures. It also includes weird and wonderful facts about monsters.

Venture into the wild and learn to draw animals using the clear and simple tips in this bookThe perfect book for complete beginners or budding artists, this handbook has step-by-step guidelines for getting started; tips on color, shape, technique, and materials; and useful notes on how to use a sketchbook. It's packed with beautiful pictures of favorite and exotic animals created in pencil, ink, chalk, watercolor, and felt-tip. It also includes fascinating animals facts.

Kids can create their own cartoons and share them with friends using the clear and simple tips in this bookThe perfect book for complete beginners or budding artists, this handbook has step-by-step guidelines for getting started, tips on planning and drawing a strip cartoon, and useful notes on how to use a sketchbook. It's packed with funny cartoons and practical help on drawing heads, bodies, animals, machines, and caricatures, plus a full page template to make a flick book.

Kids can master the art of drawing horses, from cute cartoons to mythical to extremely realistic horsesThe perfect book for complete beginners or budding artists, this handbook has step-by-step guidelines for getting started; tips on color, shape, technique, and materials; and useful notes on how to use a sketchbook. It's packed with useful pictures and practical help on drawing all kinds of horses from photos, from models, and from life. It also includes fascinating horse facts.

Recyle your junk into amazing works of artThat's not rubbish, that's art! This book will teach readers how to recycle loads of gruesome materials to make astonishing works of art. It's cheap, fun, and helps the environment. From turning onion skins into an Onion Fish to making jewelry from egg shells, these tried and tested projects will impress family and friends.

No special equipment is needed to get started with these weird and wonderful experiments Ectoplasmic Gunk, Balloon Belchers, Floating Eyeballs, and Pus-filled Boils—does this sound like your kind of fun? Well then, you're definitely a grossologist. These tried and tested scientific experiments will disgust even the most gruesome. "Fact Files" explain the science behind each experiment.

This alternative kid's cookbook takes familiar recipes and reworks them to highlight the yuck factor Here's a terrific collection of revolting recipes for the budding grossologist, including sweet and savory dishes, hot and cold food, and drinks. Kids can enjoy trying out their cookery skills and throw a gruesome party to gorge themselves on gorgeous but disgusting-sounding treats.