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, [...]
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 [...]
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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 the artistic talent in everyone. Packed with practical information, helpful tips and fundamental [...]
COL ART-This is a still life paint by number of a vase of sunflowers on a table (indoors) and a yellow background. Kit includes: 1 numbered drawing on textured board 1 paintbrush 20 large water mixable pots of oil paint and 1 workstation. Size: 15-3/4×11-7/8. Suitable for ages 8 and over. Warning: These paints will [...]
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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Everett Raymond Kinstler Landscape Set…A native New Yorker who began his career at age 16 drawing comic books and hundreds of book and magazine illustrations as well as covers for paper back books. As one of the âgolden ageâ era of comic book artists his illustrations for magazines including The Shadow [...]
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From award-winning painter David Curtis comes a fabulous on-the-page oil painting course, with all the techniques needed to work outdoors—in every type of weather—as well as in the studio. Through finished pieces and stage-by-stage examples, students learn how to capture the subtle effects of light and mood and achieve expressive, original results. There’s expert guidance [...]
In this workshop, Martha Saudek shares her process for finding design, value, and color schemes that bring out the best in her subjects. Her techniques for composition, lighting, and analysis will help you paint vivid lanscapes in plein air or in the studio. Martha emphasizes drawing skills and color theory to keep her composition interesting [...]
North Light Books “Land & Light Workship: Capturing the Seasons in Oil”
Customer Review: Not very good art
Deibler covers the basics well, but his pictures clearly demonstrate that a lot more is needed than the basics. I suppose this is a matter of personal taste, but to me his pictures are cliched and obvious, his [...]
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What is painting really? Daubs of sticky oils and crushed rock, blobs that form and reform, colors that look one way on a palette, another way on canvas, a different way still in relation to other bits of color beside them. Books on painting usually talk about Art, or about painters. But in this compelling [...]
All Media Artists Easel Box SetThis incredible set comes with just about every media that an artist could want! Whether you are an adult who wants to experiment with new media or a young adult starting out this set is ideal. You get 18 Oil Paints 18 Watercolor Paints 18 Acrylic Paints [...]
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This DVD is different from the “Layered Approach” DVD’s. Matt takes you through his whole oil painting process from start to finish in this brand new DVD. Matthew will teach you oil painting techniques used for “Illustration” purposes, not life drawing.
This two disc DVD set is perfect for anyone interested in learning how to paint [...]
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The Artist’s Channel has over 500 high quality video art instruction segments taught by leading artists such as Johnnie Liliedahl, Helen van Wyk, Eric Wiegardt, Jan Kunz, Jerry Yarnell and Zoltan Szabo. Many different topics and mediums are covered, ranging from basics to advanced techniques in watercolors, oils & acrylics, pastels, colored pencils, drawing and [...]
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Make Your Mark with Confident, Dramatic StrokesImagine painting with the virtuosity of the masters. With Bold Strokes, you can learn how, step by step. Beloved artist and teacher Mark Christopher Weber takes this seemingly complex manner of painting and breaks it down into simple, manageable steps that you can apply to your own style. He [...]
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Customer Review: really good beginner oil painting dvd
This video was bought for me and I really enjoyed watching it and learning the basics of oil painting techniques. There is a good example of drawing on the canvas and underpainting as well as a bit on color. I thought it was a bit pricy so I [...]
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Billy Showell’s exquisite and technically brilliant watercolour flower portraits are beautifully presented in this highly informative, lavishly illustrated book. Packed with information on drawing and painting techniques, colour mixing and composition, it is an invaluable source of ideas and inspiration for anyone who wants to develop their flower painting skills, whether or not they have [...]
Stimulating, informative guide by noted teacher covers painting technique, painting from life, materials (paints, varnishes, oils and mediums, grounds, etc.), a painter’s training, more. Expert analysis of work of Velasquez, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Hals, Rembrandt, etc. 64 photos. 5 line drawings.
Customer Review: “Classic” But Remarkably Up To Date.
If you walk into the store of the Art [...]
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