Pines and Plains Libraries

Local architect Shayne Reynolds is an art collector, but when it comes to Carrie Lockett he's as interested in the artist as he is in her California landscapes and stunning portraits. The talented and reclusive Carrie, however, rejects his overtures, but she won't tell him why...even though he knows she returns his feelings.

"Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Mesa Verde, Hovenweep...For many, such historic places evoke images of stone ruins, cliff dwellings, potsherds, and petroglyphs. For others, they recall ancestry. Remnants of the American Southwest's ancestral Puebloan peoples (sometimes known as Anasazi) have mystified and tantalized explorers, settlers, archaeologists, artists, and other visitors for a select group of writers, these ancient inhabitants have been...

"In a career that spanned six decades, Ansel Adams produced a remarkable body of work that is at once an artistic tour de force and a powerful tribute to his beloved American wilderness. Adams was given his first camera, a Kodak Box Brownie, in 1916, and made his first photographs during a family vacation in Yosemite National Park. Thus began a career and a lifetime devoted to making indelible images of America's wild places, its national parks, and...

This fresh and inspiring art manual covers all aspects of sketching, from pencil and pen techniques to tackling different types of subject matter. It will appeal to complete beginners looking for a way in to drawing, as well as those who want to lighten and refresh their drawing skills. Author Vivienne Coleman shows how readers can integrate sketching into their daily routine by making rapid sketches in just a few minutes. Other examples demonstrate...

Sites visited include the visionary tomb of Newgrange in the Boyne Valley, the Rock of Cashel, the Stone Circle of Dun Beacon, and the surreal landscape of the Clare Burren. Historical events are remembered as the author weaves the threads of Irish fact and folklore together.

"Follow Rothman's inquisitive mind and engaging artwork along shorelines, across the open ocean, and below the waves to explore the hows and whys of the watery universe, from how the world's oceans formed to why the sea is salty"--

Provides over eight hundred and fifty terms that describe American landscape by forty-five well-known writers, including Jon Krakauer, Terry Tempest Williams, Barbara Kingsolver, Charles Frazier, and Robert Hass.