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    Mar 18, 2022 5 minutes

    Visit www.painters-online.co.uk/store and click on the link to books to buy the latest practical art books available from LP’s online bookshop. There’s also 20% off all Search Press books in our bookshop this month!

    National menagerie

    Thais Vanderheyden’s picture book, The National Menagerie of Art, is aimed at children aged five and above and features famous paintings light-heartedly reimagined for its young audience. From Botticelli to Michelangelo, Kahlo to Rothko, the book will bring some of the greatest art works in history to life in ways that won’t be forgotten.

    The National Menagerie of Art by Thais Vanderheyden. Prestel Publishers, (h/b), £8.99.

    Mindful artist

    uses Japanese-inspired art forms and clean, simplified shapes with brush pens and ink to encourage mindfulness and meditation in your artwork. Monika Cilmi demonstrates how

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