The world's first truly interactive art instruction book, the Watercolour Wheel Book will help anyone who wants to paint in watercolour to produce quality art in days.
Easy and clean to use, water-soluble pencils are portable and infinitely versatile. Wendy Jelbert here gives lively step-by-step demonstrations of flowers, still-life, landscapes and buildings.
A complete pastel painting course for the beginner in ten easy to follow lessons, demonstrating how the newcomer to this medium can achieve superb results from the start.
Pull-out outlines on tracing paper are provided for five beautiful paintings, along with full step-by-step instructions for how to bring the flowers to life with watercolours.
Acrylic is used by many well-known professional artists, but is rather less popular with amateurs. This is surprising, because acrylic is not only the most versatile of all the painting media, but is also highly forgiving.
Teach yourself how to draw innovative manga with this fun, progressive art course. The essential 'first book' for beginners to learn the basics. An ideal book for teachers to recommend to students at adult education classes.
Arnold Lowrey demonstrates the versatility and beauty of acrylics and explores many different techniques, from washes and glazes to exciting textural finishes.
The work of Pamela Shanteau encompasses a wide range of applications, including fantasy and science fiction art, commercial illustration, automotive embellishment and body art.
Wendy Jelbert shows how to transform sketches into beautiful paintings. She clearly illustrates all her techniques from capturing special moments, texture and detail and creating atmosphere, drama, light and shade.
Joe Dowden demonstrates how to capture the beauty and freshness of watercolours, revealing the secrets and delights of painting tranquil lakes, rippling rivers, dappling streams, sunlit estuaries, dramatic seascapes, trees, foliage and more.
Ray Campbell Smith demonstrates how to capture the beauty and freshness of watercolours, revealing the secrets and delights of painting spectacular estuaries, athmospheric seascapes, unspoilt beaches, sheer cliffs, dramatic skies, busy harbours and more.
Using a vibrant and colourful palette, Arnold Lowrey clearly illustrates all the techniques from laying initial washes and capturing atmosphere to adding interest and detail.
Illustrated with a gallery of paintings by well-known artists as well as informative step-by-step demonstrations, it shows how each person applies his or her knowledge of oil painting techniques to the interpretation of a subject, whether landscape, portrait or still life.
This book covers the subject of watercolour in the broad sense of the term, suggesting ways of working with gouache and acrylic as well as explaining the time-honoured technique associated with transparent watercolour.
Terry Harrison presents a refreshingly simple guide that is packed with excellent, easy-to-follow demonstrations illustrating how to create stunning paintings using the versatile qualities of acrylics.
Terry Harrison shares his love of the landscape and shows how to create original, vibrant pictures using a range of simple brush techniques. Beautiful skies, sunlit ivy-clad trees, richly-coloured flowers, fast-running rivers and more can be achieved with the minimum of effort.
A unique introduction to Bob's exiting oil painting method as seen the Television series The Joy Of Painting. The book includes 60 of Bob's favourites, illustrated with thousands of step-by-step instructional photographs.
A detailed course utilising Bob's world famous technique. This book includes 60 more of Bob's all-time favourite paintings with step-by-step instructions.
A visual guide to over 2000 mixes and glaze effects. This easy-to-use directory explains colour theory and demonstrates a range of mixing techniques. It features over 50 specially selected colours that, when used together with a basic palette, afford the artist more than 1000 mixing options.
This compact book explains all the materials, techniques, and different approaches to painting with oils, and includes illustrated step-by-step projects to complete.
A complete guide to drawing media, from pencils and charcoal to pastels and coloured inks. Learn how to achieve exciting and unusual effects by combining two or more drawing media. Over 100 step-by-step demonstrations show ways of tackling tricky subjects Includes tips on how to professionally present your work and get it into the marketplace
Master the art of watercolour painting with this comprehensive and compact take-anywhere guidebook. Over 100 step-by-step sequences demonstrate how to paint a wide range of subjects, from landscapes to buildings, people, and still life.
This visual guide to over 2000 mixes and glaze effects simplifies colour theory and demonstrates a range of techniques. Over 50 specially selected colours are featured andwhen used together with a basic palette they create more than 1000 mixing options.
The Encyclopedia of Acrylic Techniques is designed to dispel any doubts and to inspire artists to try Acrylic techniques out. This book is divided into two main sections. The A-Z section, with the aid of colour photographs and step-by-step demonstrations, guides you through the full variety of techniques. The second part of the book, demonstrates how individual artists tackle a variety of subjects.
Using new Craft in Motion photography which displays every stage of the calligraphy technique, this book makes understanding, learning and mastering the lettering clear and simple.
It is generally thought that hands and feet are the hardest parts of the body to portray effectively in drawings, paintings and sculptures. Giovanni Civardi demystifies the process of capturing both with this inspirational, easy-to-follow guide.
From rapid sketches to portraits and drawings of groups of people, this inspiring book teaches how to capture the many different forms and characters of clothed figures.
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