How to Draw Dogs

This is a comprehensive guide for all artists who want to use photography to inspire and inform their work. It demonstrates photographic skills, using a camera as a sketchbook and it takes you through the process of working from photographs, creating effective compositions and finished paintings. Demonstrations track paintings from initial photograph to finished artwork and the entire book offers invaluable guidance on creating images in watercolour, acrylic, coloured pencils, pastels and oil, making it perfect for artists of all skill levels. Buy it now.

How to Draw Faces in Simple Steps

This simplifies the drawing process, showing how images can be built up easily, from initial shapes right through to finished faces. With a good selection of portraits including couples, children, babies and older people in a variety of poses, and showing a range of expressions. The two-colour method shows every step. Complete beginners to more experienced artists will find much to inspire them. It's an invaluable guide for anyone interested in this subject. Buy it now.

'Lesson plans [that] help teachers inspire pupils' TES, TES Scotland, TES Wales

Containing over 70 curriculum-linked topics from Medieval Britain to the Restoration, this book offers ready-to-use lesson plans for teachers wanting to inspire their 11-14 year olds. It's a user-friendly resource, designed to help all busy history teachers, featuring teaching strategies based on the latest research and best practice. The practical, task-based activities are aimed at supporting and reinforcing your teaching, and promoting pupils' enjoyment of the subject. Buy it now.

With guidance on planning lessons, inspiring creativity and imagination and getting great results, this offers practical ideas for art teachers on planning; developing and, preparing students for all requirements in secondary art and design. Buy it now.

Animals (How to Draw) 

In a series of 10 progressive demonstrations, this book covers various techniques necessary to draw animals successfully, including tone, shape, character, expression and movement. Using a variety of media, it shows how to balance features and proportions; how to express character and personality and creating the look of texture. Animals include cats, dogs, kittens, puppies, rabbits, pigs, squirrels and ponies. Buy it now.

How to Draw Animals in Simple Steps

Each page in this book (written with three other artists) shows you how to draw an animal or bird, starting with a simple outline and building up to a final picture, whether in pencil or in paint. A simple approach to drawing with no captions, just a straightforward system, showing shapes and lines to follow easily. Buy it now.

1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die

Written by several art historians, including me! This guide covers art from Ancient Egyptian frescoes to the Renaissance, from French Impressionism to American Abstract Expressionism, embracing all cultures and every style of painting from 4000 BCE to the present. Organised chronologically, information includes paintings' history, information about artists and movements, current locations and more. Buy it now.

501 Great Artists

Another book I've contributed to, this celebrates great artists; their power to express emotions, to provoke arguments, to change the way we see the world, or simply to entertain. It is is a guide to artists who have influenced our world and whose achievements have shaped the course of art history. It's an informative and accessible book. Each entry provides a concise description of a particular artist's life and work, and assesses the nature of their creative insight and cultural impact. Buy it now.

Art the Whole Story

As one of the contributers to this book, I can recommend it! Giving insights into the world's most iconic images, it is organised chronologically, tracing the evolution of artistic development by period, covering every genre of art, from painting and sculpture to conceptual art and performance. Buy it now.