Books with author William Sewell

Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits features master mixes for an array of skin colors in oil, acrylic, and watercolor—plus recipes for hair, eye, and lip colors. The concealed wire-o bound book also includes a plastic color-mixing grid for measuring out paints, as well as a handy conversion chart for finding acrylic equivalents of oil paints and vice versa. With recipes for more than 500 color combinations, this comprehensive guide is your ultimate source for painting realistic skin, mouths, ears, noses, eyes, and hair. This convenient guide details three simple steps to mix virtually any skin tone:Match a palette of skin tones from this book to your portrait subject.Create the Master Skin Tone Recipe for this palette using the Color Mixing Grid to measure each paint color.Follow the recipes to create all the skin tones you'll need to complete your portrait—from light values to shadows.Also featured:Color theoryTinting, toning, and shadingGraying skin tones naturallyIdentifying facial planesMouth, nose, and ear color tonesEye and hair color tonesWatercolor skin tone recipesWith recipes for more than 500 color combinations, Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits is your ultimate source for painting realistic skin, mouths, ears, noses, eyes, and hair.

In this book, William F. Powell invites you into his artistic world as he shows you how to render a variety of beautiful trees in pencil. The author explains a number of basic drawing techniques before exploring basic tree shapes and leaf types. As you learn how to draw branches, bark, and ground foliage, step by step, youÆll also discover important tips about shading, creating textures, setting up compositions, and applying perspectiveùhelping you develop your own tree drawings to their fullest potential. Helpful examples and essential information make this comprehensive guide a valuable addition to any artistÆs drawing library!

What do you cook for the people you love? Asked this question, 100 of Britain’s food heroes have shared their most beloved recipes to make this extraordinary cookbook. Nigella Lawson divulges how to bake her Chocolate Guinness Cake and Rick Stein fries up Shrimp & Dill Fritters with Ouzo. Yotam Ottolenghi would serve Pea & Mint Croquettes and for Jamie Oliver, an unrivalled Fantastic Fish Pie. These are just a few of the incredible recipes provided by the best and brightest on the British food scene, including chefs such as Raymond Blanc, Gordon Ramsay, Delia Smith, James Martin, Nigel Slater, Thomasina Miers, Mark Hix, Jason Atherton, Marco Pierre White, Claudia Roden and more. Compiled by award-winning food editor and author William Sitwell, The Really Quite Good British Cookbook is keenly anticipated and a stunning object in its own right. Ultimately it is a celebration of the breadth, creativity and richness of Britain’s unique food culture.

A leading authority on the people and events that have shaped North Carolina over four centuries, Powell here provides a sharply drawn overall history of the state for general readers. In twelve chapters this volume traces North Carolina's history from England's initial efforts to found a colony in America in the sixteenth century to uncertain and often-turbulent times as the final quarter of the twentieth century approached.

Reveal the Latest Breakthrough in Memory Improvement and Enjoy the Benefits!You are about to reveal how you can acquire super human abilities that will shock everybody, including yourself.Imagine if you could have the ability to learn everything you want, ten times faster. Imagine if you could remember important information easily, without struggling to pull it out of your brain. Imagine what an unfair advantage a powerful memory would be in business, school, or life.A good memory isn't just memory – people with strong memory enjoy the benefits of a sharper mind, better focusing ability, higher intelligence, and faster understanding of their craft. With the proper guidance, you can expect all of the above – and that's exactly what this book is going to be for you.In this mind-opening book, you will expose the latest techniques, methods and strategies to improve your memory, sharpen your mind, and acquire super-human skills that can help in every area of your life!Here's what you can find inside:The basics of memory improvement, how it works, and how you can start practicing even in the next 10 minutesReveal memory improvement myths and avoid practicing the wrong thingsLearn what foods can help you improve your memory and sharpen your mindDiscover how to improve your sleep and store much more memory than beforeGet powerful techniques, methods, games, exercises and more to improve your memory in the best way possible!Get this book now, read it this weekend, and see how your mind is becoming super natural!From the basics of memory improvement, all the way to advanced exercises, this book will take you by the hand and turn you into a genius.Scroll up, click on "Buy Now with 1-Click", and Get Your Copy NOW!

Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so. My father purchased himself in early manhood by hard toil. Mother saw no way for herself and children to escape the horrors of bondage but by flight. Bravely, with her four little ones, with firm faith in God and an ardent desire to be free, she forsook the prison-house, and succeeded, through the aid of my father, to reach a free State. Here life had to be begun anew. The old familiar slave names had to be changed, and others, for prudential reasons, had to be found. This was not hard work. However, hardly months had passed ere the keen scent of the slave-hunters had trailed them to where they had fancied themselves secure. In those days all power was in the hands of the oppressor, and the capture of a slave mother and her children was attended with no great difficulty other than the crushing of freedom in the breast of the victims. Without judge or jury, all were hurried back to wear the yoke again. But back this mother was resolved never to stay. She only wanted another opportunity to again strike for freedom. In a few months after being carried back, with only two of her little ones, she took her heart in her hand and her babes in her arms, and this trial was a success. Freedom was gained, although not without the sad loss of her two older children, whom she had to leave behind. Mother and father were again reunited in freedom, while two of their little boys were in slavery. What to do for them other than weep and pray, were questions unanswerable. For over forty years the mother's heart never knew what it was to be free from anxiety about her lost boys. But no tidings came in answer to her many prayers, until one of them, to the great astonishment of his relatives, turned up in Philadelphia, nearly fifty years of age, seeking his long-lost parents.

Unlock the Power of your Thoughts with a Single Book!How often have you been told to “think outside the box”?Do you keep hearing this phrase from successful inventors, artists, and business coaches?Do you keep wondering what it actually means?Thinking outside the box means applying existing knowledge in new, unexpected ways to come up with new ideas and solutions. This is an essential skill in today’s fast-changing world.But saying “think outside the box” isn’t enough – you have to be aware of the box before you can think outside it.The scientific name for this imaginary box is “mental model”. Mental models are useful because they help you learn: they help you make sense of new information and attach it to your existing knowledge. But, at the same time, they can limit your thinking. So it’s important to know your boxes well if you want to think outside them. And this is exactly what this book is about. "Mental Models" will help you to:Be aware of your mental models and their limitationsDiscover the visible effects that your thinking patterns have on your lifeUnderstand and apply concepts such as critical thinking, creative thinking, and positive thinkingBring success into your life by following the principles of prosperity thinkingTry energetic thinking, a method that is sure to unlock your hidden potential!Does this sound like too much thinking? Don’t worry, the book is easy to read and provides real-life techniques that you can start using at once. It will teach you to generate new ideas, to see life in a more positive light and to master any professional or personal challenge that may come your way!Sounds promising? Scroll up, click on "Buy Now with 1-Click", and Get Your Copy Now!

Seventeen-year-old Alex Jackson comes home from school to find that his father, a CBC news cameraman, wants to take him to China's capital, Beijing. Once there, Alex finds himself on his own in Tian An Men Square as desperate students fight the Chinese army for their freedom. Separated from his father and carrying illegal videotapes, Alex must trust the students to help him escape.Closely based on eyewitness accounts of the massacre in Beijing, Forbidden City is a powerful and frightening story.

Reveal the Latest Breakthrough in Memory Improvement and Enjoy the Benefits!You are about to reveal how you can acquire super human abilities that will shock everybody, including yourself.Imagine if you could have the ability to learn everything you want, ten times faster. Imagine if you could remember important information easily, without struggling to pull it out of your brain. Imagine what an unfair advantage a powerful memory would be in business, school, or life.A good memory isn't just memory – people with strong memory enjoy the benefits of a sharper mind, better focusing ability, higher intelligence, and faster understanding of their craft. With the proper guidance, you can expect all of the above – and that's exactly what this book is going to be for you.In this mind-opening book, you will expose the latest techniques, methods and strategies to improve your memory, sharpen your mind, and acquire super-human skills that can help in every area of your life!Here's what you can find inside:The basics of memory improvement, how it works, and how you can start practicing even in the next 10 minutesReveal memory improvement myths and avoid practicing the wrong thingsLearn what foods can help you improve your memory and sharpen your mindDiscover how to improve your sleep and store much more memory than beforeGet powerful techniques, methods, games, exercises and more to improve your memory in the best way possible!Get this book now, read it this weekend, and see how your mind is becoming super natural!From the basics of memory improvement, all the way to advanced exercises, this book will take you by the hand and turn you into a genius.Scroll up, click on "Buy Now with 1-Click", and Get Your Copy NOW!

Genius Baby may be the first serious contender for “The Great American Novel” since the 1920’s. Genius Baby does for a model American character what the stories of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy did for the archetypal Russian characters or what Cervantes’ Don Quixote did for the confused middle class Spanish seeker looking for a just social order. Genius Baby is a work of fiction deeply rooted in the reality of scientific research on human development, with especial attention to the beauty and flaws of representative samples of the American dream. We first meet the primary hero of the story, Richard Milton-Chu, in the memory of his father who is re-living Richard’s immaculate birth. Richard is born in a modified Jacuzzi where the 97F degree water is pre-warmed, purified by ultra-violet light and refreshed so that the baby’s birth is facilitated by both gravity and buoyancy. The modified Jacuzzi is fitted with a birthing stool and holders for everything needed by the mother and her assisting midwife so that when the time of birth comes, the room can be reduced to zero light, total darkness, so that the baby’s eyes are not burned by harsh light. All of the baby’s senses are respected, initially: no light, no sound, no hard surfaces, no odors, and no temperature changes. Gradually the light is raised and the baby finds his mother’s arms. But the umbilical cord is not snipped until it collapses, indicating that all of the baby’s lungs, heart, and brain switches have been turned either on or off as coordinated by nature’s own timers, and the baby can now breathe on his own and by his own free will -- not rudely jerked into what the baby perceives as peril. We next meet Richard twenty-three months later when several crises overtake his patent attorney father, his children’s story writer mother, an inventive genius from Kenya, and two scholarly patent attorneys from France who discovered and partnered with the Kenyan genius. With the help of the French attorneys, the Kenyan genius developed a new energy device that converts solar energy to electrical energy at about four times the efficiency of current models. Consequently, greedy bureaucrats and energy industry capitalists get word of the invention and conspire to thwart its development at all costs. The villains enlist the assistance of a KGB-trained “murder specialist” and four misguided pawns from Albania. The plot of the story is open enough to allow for the reader to observe the problems that a modern, intelligent father and mother have in trying to educate a child who is far more intelligent than they. The story evolves to include issues relating to slavery, America’s number one curse, inter-racial marriage, class and caste in America and in the world, and the interplay of music with psychological health. The several endings obey the American vision of “All’s well that ends well,” as long as some punishments are handed out for wrong thoughts and rewards exceed punishments.

This book covers all the techniques you need to know to create beautiful watercolor paintings of people, landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, children, and even animals! In The Art of Watercolor, youÆll find information on all the essential watercolor fundamentals and special techniques, as well as in-depth explanations of more advanced concepts. And as you follow and learn, youÆll find both inspiration and information inside this classic instructional guide: The step-by-step lessons are all accompanied by beautiful illustrations that lead up to the finished artwork. This attractive, full-color instructional guide is a perfect addition to any artistÆs reference library!

In this book, William F. Powell invites you into his artistic world as he shows you how to render a variety of beautiful trees in pencil. The author explains a number of basic drawing techniques before exploring basic tree shapes and leaf types. As you learn how to draw branches, bark, and ground foliage, step by step, youÆll also discover important tips about shading, creating textures, setting up compositions, and applying perspectiveùhelping you develop your own tree drawings to their fullest potential. Helpful examples and essential information make this comprehensive guide a valuable addition to any artistÆs drawing library!