“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 [...]
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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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 [...]
Artists who love the sea and dream of capturing every aspect of its beauty will treasure this lavishly illustrated guide to painting boats and picturesque harbors. With advice on technique, color, and composition, Ballinger begins with numerous seaworthy vessels and moves on to cover calm and stormy waters, sea birds, the sky, and more. 8-page [...]
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 [...]
Customer Review: A surprisingly good book
I ordered this book used. At first glance I was disappointed, but then I sat and read through it. It claims to offer a complete course on oil painting and it actually delivers.
This book is richly illustrated with color plates throughout. More importantly, the [...]
Combining technical mastery with emotional impact to create a powerful, evocative scene is the ultimate goal of every oil landscape painter. Painting Mood and Atmosphere in Oils, the second title in North Light’s Land & Light Workshop series, helps painters achieve that goal with: -13 step-by-step demonstrations covering [...]
Artists who love the sea and dream of capturing every aspect of its beauty will treasure this lavishly illustrated guide to painting boats and picturesque harbors. With advice on technique, color, and composition, Ballinger begins with numerous seaworthy vessels and moves on to cover calm and stormy waters, sea birds, the sky, and more. 8-page [...]
Artists who love the sea and dream of capturing every aspect of its beauty will treasure this lavishly illustrated guide to painting boats and picturesque harbors. With advice on technique, color, and composition, Ballinger begins with numerous seaworthy vessels and moves on to cover calm and stormy waters, sea birds, the sky, and more. 8-page [...]
When it comes to capturing the beauty of the great outdoors, it’s the composition that really makes or breaks a landscape painting. Accomplished artist Barbara Nuss takes all the guesswork out of the equation with this indispensable guide. She shows artists how to simplify, arrange and refine what they see in [...]
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When it comes to capturing the beauty of the great outdoors, it’s the composition that really makes or breaks a landscape painting. Accomplished artist Barbara Nuss takes all the guesswork out of the equation with this indispensable guide. She shows artists how to simplify, arrange and refine what they see in [...]
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The painting knife is a very expressive tool, capable of creating fine works of art with varying degrees of texture. Whether alone or in combination with a brush, painting with a knife keeps the colors bright and adds an element of spontaneity. Her you’ll find all the tips and techniques hat will make knife painting [...]
The allure of dramatic lighting in paintings is irresistible for both artist and beholder, but achieving the effect is another matter. In 10 full step-by-step demonstrations, five acrylic and five oil, Dorothy Dent reveals the techniques behind the magic of light-filled landscapes in a variety of light and weather conditions that are reminiscent of Thomas [...]
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According to Helen Van Wyk, the number three is fundamental to many of the arts. In music, for example, many compositions are made up of three movements; in drama the number of acts written by playwrights is usually three. It is also so in painting, Helen says in this enlightening video. She goes on to [...]
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Few paintings inspire the kind of intense study and speculation as Garden of Earthly Delights, the luminous triptych by Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch. The painting has been interpreted as a heretical masterpiece, an opulent illustration of the Creation and a premonition of the end of the world. In this new flexi-cover edition of the book, [...]
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Painting technique is a relatively neglected aspect of art history, although technique is vitally important in the development of painting styles and movements. In this volume, the techniques of 77 of the world’s greatest painters are examined in over 100 of their finest paintings. This comprehensive study shows the development of technique from the frescoes [...]
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Show the world you’re a Harry Potter fan! This ready-to-hang canvas print is a full-color reproduction of Mary GrandPre’s original cover artwork for book #1, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling. Collect all three while supplies last! SmartBargains Style #3058225300
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Handcrafted in the USA to the highest standards using a specialized heat fused, high definition image transfer, that is tripled sealed with a UV resistant glass like gloss finish to ensure durability, easy cleaning, and to obtain an enamel hard like finish. Unlike some of our competitors cheaper plastic and wooden drawer knobs, our drawer [...]
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