Books with author Rj Smith

Whether you've taken art classes or never held a brush before, this comprehensive, clear, and concise guide will show you everything you need to know about working in this challenging—but rewarding— medium. Written by accomplished artist Ray Smith, it paints a clear picture of everything an acrylic artist needs to know, from selecting your colors and working with washes to the alla prima layering technique and exploring new ideas and presenting your art, in only 72 concise pages. The book features hundreds of vivid, crystal-clear full-color photographs, essential for understanding the fine points of such a visual medium. And it offers easy-to-follow projects, shown as they were created, which teach the essentials while inspiring the student to tackle increasingly complex techniques. An Introduction to Acrylics is part of the DK Art School series. Each volume of the series focuses on a specific medium and subject, so you can choose precisely what you want to learn — from acrylic figure to oil portrait, and from pastel still life to watercolor landscape.

For painters of every level, this comprehensive volume presents each creative process in clear, full-color photographic sequences. From mixing colors and applying washes to tonal studies and pattern in landscapes, The Complete Guide to Watercolor contains everything one needs to know about working in this very expressive medium. This all-in-one volume presents each process in clear, full-color photographic sequences, reveals secrets of the trade, and contains easy-to-follow projects to help master new techniques.

These are the words of Khatan . . .Exiled from the grasslands of his home, the soft-spoken nomad Khatan is driven north into the violence of the endless, cyclical Long War; as khans and princes vie for the throne of an empire long dead. But there is respite in the chaos: taken beneath the wing of Oman, charismatic warleader of the Empty Quiver, Khatan seems to have found the family - and love - that his wandering had denied him. As bannerman and khan, Stalking Wolf and Golden Leopard, the two strike out to carve their legend into the annals of the War.Each new victory, though, and each rung on their climb to glory, seems to come at greater cost, and to strain the bonds both are so desperate to hold on to. And, as the Long War approaches its apocalyptic climax, signs appear that perhaps Khatan’s fate was never entirely his own . . .Two Thousand Leagues as the Seabird is Khatan’s death-song. It is the first book of the Created World.

It’s Christmas holiday and Lily is stuck in a remote mountain village surrounded by people with unfamiliar cultural traditions.With school out for a month and no internet connection, at first she wonders how she will fill the time. Lily soon discovers there’s more to gift-giving than just the giving. Cut off from the outside world, she’s expected to hand make gifts for friends and family. Will there be enough time in just 28 days?A sweet, multicultural Christmas story with a touch of young romance, 28 Days features Lily and Arturo from the Seed Savers series. Read more about them in Lily and Heirloom.

In the quiet town of Southdale, Vincent Macleod couldn't read people’s minds. He could never lift a car with ease or alter his appearance with a technologically advanced suit. All Vincent ever wanted and knew of, was life as a regular teenager. But all that is about to change when an altercation on his first day of high school leads him to discover that he possesses some rather unique abilities. A mysterious man arrives, taking him to a secret government agency where the hidden truth of his birth is revealed. Now he's in the middle of something he doesn't understand, never asked for, and is destined for the greatest challenge of his life, if he can survive long enough.Harry Potter meets The Avengers in this first book in a series of best selling fiction books. Vincent Macleod Prophecy of The Six is a first step into a fiction series of adventure, Dark plots, secrets, cruel fates and a swath of humor. Filled with a band of characters out to save the world with its secrets intact, this book is the maiden voyage into a series of twists and turns at every corner,

What is the great timeless struggle? The struggle that exists within the heart of every man and every woman and every child. It is the war between what we want to be right and what God has proclaimed to be righteous. What if there were a young woman who had so given herself over to the will of God that others saw it and were drawn to it? How would the world react? How would the the enemy? This is the story of Lilly Bliss Walker and Elijah Portier yearning to know love in a world that defines love only in terms of self. It is the story of the quest for truth in a world where truth is insubstantial. It is the story of of triumph and victory through sacrifice and selflessness.