How to Draw & Paint Pin-ups & Glamour Girls


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The second book in the Walter Foster Collectibles series, How to Draw & Paint Pin-ups & Glamour Girls, hails back to an era when Betty Grable set the standard for female beauty and Bettie Page set the standard for female allure. This extraordinary collection includes original art from several previously published vintage Walter Foster titles, including How to Draw the Figure, Pin-Up Art, the Nude, Oil: Faces & Features, and Dancers in Action. From the quintessential 1920s flapper girl to a pin-up bikini model, artists will learn to draw and paint a range of female subjects and portraits in a variety of media, including pencil, oil, and pastel. With easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and professional tips, this collectible book is a must-have for artists of all levels, particularly those fond of days gone by.




How to Draw & Paint


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Expert guidance needed to experiment successfully with the full range of subjects and media are presented here.




The Great American Pin-up


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Describes the origins and the development in detail and showcasing the most important artists. More than 900 colour illustrations.




Pin-Up


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A look back at vintage magazines and an invitation to enter the spellbinding world of luscious pin-up models. IMAGINED BY MALY SIRI, THIS COFFEE TABLE BOOK IS A REMINDER OF VINTAGE MAGAZINES AND AN INVITATION TO ENTER THE SPELLBINDING WORLD OF PIN-UPS Maly Siri’s Pin-up Art Good Girls / Bad Girls raises two themes: - On one side, the “Good Girls”: the damsels with soft skin powdering their faces in front of the mirror, the Tahitian girls with enchanting smiles and the brave soldiers... Their charm is due to their sparkling characters and apparent candour. - And on the other side, the “Bad Girls”: the rouged vamps with sensuous looks, the spies, the melancholic blues singers and other mis ts... The fact that they are aware of their charms makes them even more dangerous... This book is a rich and delicious homage inspired by the iconography of the 1930’s to 50’s, a concentrate of pure glamour, with a preface by Chantal Thomass.




Pin Up Dreams


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The only comprehensive reference of Armstrong's pin-up art, this full-color illustrated book contains over 300 reproductions of the best of his dream-girl images from his 50-year career.




Earl MacPherson


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Discover the wartime legends who made art history in the colorful library "Vignettes." Each colorful mini art book highlights the career of one specific artist from the golden age of illustration. Several of these artists have never been published in book form before, making them a fun discovery for anyone who appreciates nostalgia and art history.




Pin-up Art of Jay Scott Pike


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The sudden breeze. The accidental rip. The unintentional underwear peek-a-boo. These are time-tested themes in pin-ups, but few artists made such a delightful subject out of them than Jay Scott Pike! A formidable painter and illustrator from the old school, Jay's body of work is as curvaceous and appealing as his subjects. Good girl calendar art, Playboy Club commissioned portraits, advertising for Fortune 500 companies, and some fondly-remembered fan favourites for both Marvel and DC. Mister Pike is surely a multi-talent of the highest order, but it's pin-up girls he's best known for, and this full colour retrospective of his "schocked" young ladies will have you begging for more!




Warbird Pinup Girls


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In late 2008, artist and creative director Christian Kieffer began his retro revival, when he brought WWII nose-art pinups to life. He began shooting some of his handpicked beauties with a P-51 Mustang and the sky was the limit from there. With the successful release of his 2011 Warbird Pinup Girls calendar, featuring all flight worthy WWII fighter planes and authentic classy pinup girls, they took the retro world by storm. With the help of his wife and creative partner, Gili Kieffer, they became renowned fro recreating the most authentic pinup girls. Now in their 5th year of production comes the release of this special edition book featuring many unseen works by the creative duo.




The Lost Art of how to Draw Fantasy Females


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A step by step, fun and easy, informal guide to drawing the fantasy female figure, for the beginner .The author has put forth a simplified presentation of an uncomplicated approach to drawing the female fantasy form . It is filled with lots of easy to follow diagrams and drawings . It also includes advice , practical tips and instruction on how to draw the fantasy female , using a basic three step method . This book shows you how to develop your own technique and personal creative style of drawing .




For the Boys


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Contains a collection of graphic art pictures of pin-up girls that went into battle with allied soldiers during World War II.