This informative and richly illustrated book by master scratchboard artist, Diana Lee, has just about everything you need to know on the subject of working in the scratchboard medium. Offering a wealth of information on tools and techniques, Starting From Scratch also contains exercises that you can use to create your own pieces, as well as detailed demonstrations that show how the author achieves the incredible realism for which her work is known.

A gift for a special occasion like a birthday, wedding, or anniversary requires more than just a box. It requires an extraordinary and memorable box - one that will sometimes be considered as important and precious as the gift it contains. This book contains folding instructions for over 48 decorative box designs with the wall-lock structures of the traditional Japanese masu. Two foundation forms, that can also be used repetitively in square- grid tessellation patterns, constitute the starting points for all of the decorative lids. With a little practice, most of these boxes (bottoms and...