John Howe's Draconis: Art to Collect and Colour by John Howe [Book Series: Pictura No. 8] Signed by John Howe internally (without dedication); PICTURA/Templar Company Limited 2013 1st ed/1st printing, card covers, internally sound, externally a bit marked & bumped. Pictura is a stunning range of black and white artworks to collect and colour for all ages. In Draconis, John Howe (conceptual artist for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings movies) shows that there are dragons everywhere: in woods, in castles, in the clouds, in architecture, sitting on piles of treasure and, lastly, in books. After colouring-in the front, users are invited to copy John's work using a grid exercise on the back. John Howe is an outstanding and well-known Tolkien artist, who was born in 1957 in Vancouver, Canada, growing up in British Columbia. He studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, and lives in Switzerland as a freelance illustrator, with his wife Fataneh (also an illustrator), and son Dana. He is the author of several books, including Forging Dragons (David and Charles, 2008), and Lost Worlds (Kingfisher, 2009). Fantasy Art Workshop (Impact Books, 2008), Fantasy Drawing Workshop (Impact Books, 2009), and illustrated the map books, The Road Goes Ever on and on: The Map of Tolkien's Middle-Earth (HarperCollins, 2009), West of the Mountains, East of the Sea: The Map of Tolkien's Beleriand and the Lands to the North (HarperCollins, 2010), There and Back Again: The Map of Tolkien's ‘Hobbit’ (HarperCollins, 2010). Howe collaborated with Alan Lee and Peter Jackson to get some amazing visual art for Lord of the Rings, many will recognize paintings of Howe’s as being almost exact copies of scenes in the movie - or vice versa. “It is difficult to describe in a few words the fascination of Tolkien’s world. Perhaps it is the capacity for renewal – the insights brought while simply getting on with life – that makes going there and back again never quite the same journey.” John Howe. Will ship by Royal Mail 1st Class Signed for, well packaged. (£5.99/unter/burma)