Tag: Colours

Airline Tail Colours 485 Colour Illustrations to Aid in the Quick Recognition of Airlines (Aviation Pocket Guide 7)


Free Download B. I. Hengi – Airline Tail Colours: 485 Colour Illustrations to Aid in the Quick Recognition of Airlines (Aviation Pocket Guide 7)
Midland Publishing | 1998 | ISBN: 185780077X | English | 132 pages | PDF | 62.59 MB
An at-a-glance aid to the quick recognition of airline tail colors. Provides the airline’s nationality, 3-letter code used for flight numbers, radio call-sign prefixes, the airline’s international registration prefix, main operating base, and the aircraft types used.

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Simply Seven Colours


Free Download Simply Seven Colours by Zola Nene
English | November 18, 2022 | ISBN: 148590126X | 176 pages | MOBI | 50 Mb
Zola Nene is back with a third book, this time celebrating the diverse cultural heritage of South Africans through the wonderful tradition of sharing meals. In Simply Seven Colours, Zola gives praise to the uniquely South African seven-color (or several-color) concept with a selection of more simply delicious recipes that tap into the heart of our food nostalgia, with a focus on going back to basics.

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Forbidden Colours (Penguin Modern Classics)


Free Download Forbidden Colours (Penguin Modern Classics) by Yukio Mishima, translated by Alfred H. Marks
English | 2 Oct. 2008 | ISBN: 0141189568 | True EPUB | 432 pages | 0.9 MB
Written when Mishima was only twenty-six, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in Mann’s Death in Venice, the older man’s longing for the beauty of youth is associated with aestheticism and death.

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Take Three Colours Watercolour Landscapes Start to paint with 3 colours, 3 brushes and 9 easy projects


Free Download Take Three Colours: Watercolour Landscapes: Start to paint with 3 colours, 3 brushes and 9 easy projects by Geoff Kersey
English | August 22, 2016 | ISBN: 1782212973 | 202 pages | PDF | 26 Mb
Geoff Kersey shows people who have never picked up a paintbrush how to paint convincing watercolour landscapes using just 3 colours,3 brushes, a plastic palette and a watercolour pad. Only 3 affordable Students range watercolour paints are used: light red, cadmium yellow pale and ultramarine blue; yet from these, Geoff shows how 9 realistic watercolour scenes can be painted. There is no colour theory or long-winded mixing information to put off the first-time painter, but a practical absolute beginner’s course that shows the three colours in action. Only 3 affordable brushes are needed: no. 10, no. 4 and no. 2 rounds in a synthetic range, to achieve all of the paintings shown. Starting from the simplest of scenes, Geoff Kersey builds skills through 9 easy exercises, resulting in landscapes to be proud of. Start with a simple sky and progress through a basic scene with a reflected sunset, to landscapes that include simple buildings and even a figure. Clear advice and step-by-step photographs show how to add a simple figure to a scene and how to trace and transfer the basic drawings from the finished paintings, which are shown full size in the book for this purpose. Readers have everything they need to get painting.

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British Colours & Standards 1747-1881 (2) Infantry


Free Download Ian Sumner, Richard Hook, "British Colours & Standards 1747-1881 (2): Infantry"
English | 2001 | pages: 67 | ISBN: 1841762016 | PDF | 11,5 mb
In this second of a two-part sequence a respected vexillologist describes, explains and illustrates a wide variety of the King’s and Regimental colours carried during the 18th and 19th centuries by British Household, Regular, Militia and Volunteer infantry regiments. The successive regulations between 1747 and 1881 – when the carrying of colours in the field ceased – are supported by comprehensive tables of ‘ancient badges’ and battle honours; many careful drawings; and by ten dazzling plates by Richard Hook, detailing some 35 flags in full colour, as well as a number of famous colour-bearers.

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