“The Pastel Painter’s Pocket Palette” includes pages of easy-to-follow color-mixing charts, special mixtures for greens and flesh tones, how to achieve brilliant colors, and more.
Customer Review: Would be great but…
This little book would be invaluable except for the fact that the colors are from the Daler-Rowney range of oil paints, which is a student grade [...]
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Walter Foster’s classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists with an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject areas and media. Each title includes easy step-by-step exercises as well as finished illustrations or paintings that will inspire artistic talent in anyone. Packed with practical information, helpful tips, [...]
Have you always wanted to paint but did not know the first thing about it? Have you sketched thousands of pictures in your sketch book and wanted to put them on canvas? Now you can with the help of this book. We teach you everything to get you started in the wonderful [...]
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Customer Review: it teaches you to paint
I really like this book because it is teaching you how to paint impressionist style.
It shows how you can any photo turn in to masterpiece of your own and not how to make a copy.
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Customer Review: it teaches you to paint
I really like this book because it is teaching you how to paint impressionist style.
It shows how you can any photo turn in to masterpiece of your own and not how to make a copy.
Yes, It’s [...]
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“Home Artist” is an accessible and easy to follow course for anyone interested in developing their artisitic abilties using different types of media. The book includes projects using pencil charcoal, pastel, watercolour, acrylics, and oil paints. There are also sections devoted to more general subjects, covering everything from preparing the paper or canvas, and mixing [...]
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A comprehensive book on the fundamental of drawing and painting provides expert instructions and encouragement. With more than 800 full-color illustrations and step-by-step demonstrations, this guide provides thorough coverage of the materials and techniques for all the most popular drawing and painting media including pencils, charcoal, pen and ink, watercolor, oil, acrylic, and pastels. You?ll [...]
Customer Review: Great addition to my library!!!!
I AM NOT A BEGINNER BUT CAN SEE HOW ANYONE CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS TERRIFIC BOOK. HE IS A MAREVELOUS PAINTER AND GREAT DETAILS ON HOW TO DO THIS. YOU WILL LEARN SO MUCH FROM HIS ILLUSTRATIONS. I HAVE IMPROVED TREMENDOUSLY AND LOVE TO USE HIS BOOK OVER AND [...]
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In this utterly original book, Anita Albus tells the story–in the birth and triumph of oil painting, the creation of perspective, and the very nature of paint itself–of how, when, and why the eye became king of all the senses. Albus’s subjects are the inventors [...]
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Helen Van Wyk, one of the all-time favorite teachers of oil painting, was famous for her popular PBS television show, Welcome to My Studio. This book is a compilation of the most-asked questions from the late artist’s students over her 40-year teaching career. 125 illustrations, including 60 of Van Wyk’s paintings.
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Based on the works of nearly 100 master painters — Isenburger, Chardin, Braque, many more — this gloriously illustrated manual focuses on the aesthetics of picture-making, chief among them composition. Watson stresses that while an artist’s skill is vitally important, a painting’s true power lies in its design and theme. Includes 135 paintings.
Customer Review: Excellent [...]
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The first ever art book from DailyPainters.com! From around the globe, 146 artists gathered in cyberspace. We donned our best berets, and set out with our paintbrushes and easels in one hand, and our computers in the other. Our mission? To bring you the world, one brushstroke at a time. [...]
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*Cats and dogs are two of the most popular animal subjects for painters, but good reference material is often hard to find. This book provides ideas and solutions for making better paintings *Quick visual resource for painting major breeds and mixed-breed looks *Provides [...]
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A survey of techniques used by master painters is followed by the actual application of oils to canvas in this book, which explains how to mix colours, choose brushes and select a studio, as well as how to compose, evaluate perspective, translate lighting effects and interpret themes.
Customer Review: Great Techniques
Full of the basics of [...]
Handsomely illustrated, easy-to-follow beginners’ guide provides instructions for painting the head, torso, arm and leg, as well as step-by-step demonstrations for painting seven female figures. Additional advice on planning the painting, lighting the figure, sketching with oils, and figure drawing with pencil, charcoal, and chalk. A treasure for beginning figure painters and a source of [...]
A guide to painting realistic and expressive portraits in oils. The author creates seven life like portraits of a variety of people, using a step by step programme, and deals with topics such as the painting, proportion, and placement of features, as well as how to mix perfect skin tones.
Customer Review: good place to start
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If you’ve ever wanted to control your art so that you can paint anything—and paint it well—this is the book for you!
The mediums are oil, watercolor, and contour drawing but this is a book about making good paintings, not learning a particular medium. The subject matter is broad, ranging from still lifes to figures and [...]
Providing a handy visual guide to more than 2,000 hues and shades, this complete color reference reveals the 25 colors of paint that compose the most useful range of color. The time-saving guide takes the uncertainty out of mixing colors and enables artists to quickly and precisely match any tint they’d like to reproduce with [...]
This reference book for art students, teachers, and professionals presents examples of finished paintings, as well as color charts that demonstrate color mixing as it applies to watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Students learn how to choose and mix colors to produce the maximum color range from the minimum number of paints. The book starts with [...]
Customer Review: Inspirational
I have always found this book highly inspirational. I love big, juicy color, and Chadbourn’s paintings leap off the page at you. (The medium is oil.) The most amazing ones are jumbles of intense color that your eye somehow pulls together into a recognizable subject, for instance, cows. It’s [...]
