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Making Color Sing Jeanne Dobie
This title stimulates new ways to think about colour, generating responses that unlock personal creativity. It features 31 practical and stimulating lessons that teach how to use colour and composition to make paintings come alive. Colour is one …
Botanical Portraits with Colored Pencils Ann Swan
successfully executed work of botanical art is an exacting blend of scientific accuracy and aesthetic beauty. This lavishly illustrated volume offers practical, step-by-step instruction for creating professional quality colored pencil …
How to Master Airbrush Painting Technique Joanne Bortles
Airbrush painting is an art like any other, requiring talent and skill; but it is also a technology that, more than other art forms, calls for technical mastery of equipment used in the process. JoAnn Bortles, one of the top airbrush artists in …
Art and Technique of Sumi-e Japanese Ink-painting Kay Thompson
The beauty of sumi-e is paradoxical - ancient but modern, simple but complex, bold but subdued - no doubt reflecting the arts spiritual basis in Zen Buddhism. At the same time sumi-e is firmly rooted in the natural world, its various techniques …
Sketching and drawing from life is fundamental to artists, who have always used it to record observations, experiences and ideas. Artists also want to be able to use their sketchbooks to capture the character of everyday life in their drawings. …
How to Draw Lifelike Portraits from Photographs 20 Step-by-Step Demonstrations Lee Hammond
Celebrating one of North Light's most popular title's 15th anniversary, this revised edition has been expanded to 160 pages and features more diversity of age and ethnicity. Readers find brand-new step-by-step demos and detailed instruction on …
Artists Complete Guide to Facial Expression Gary Faigin
Artists will love this book, the definitive guide to capturing facial expressions. In a carefully organised, easy-to-use format, author Gary Faigin shows readers the expressions created by individual facial muscles, then draws them together in a …
Anatomy Drawing School Animal Anatomy Volume 2
The Anatomical Drawing School recognises the prominent role of the anatomy for the fine arts. The impressively detailed illustrations of the Hungarian master Andras Szunyoghy have accompanied artists as well as anatomists all over the world for …
Capturing the Essence Techniques for Bird Artists
Capturing the Essence is a step-by-step personal guide by one of Australia's greatest living bird artists, to observing, retaining the essential information and then painting birds from field notes and sketches, photographs and other field …
visual sampler, including step-by-step demonstrations, for experimenting with inks, watercolor, acrylics, oils, pastels, and unusual materials to achieve hundreds of different effects to use in your paintings. Looking for new directions in your …
Classical Painting Atelier Juliette Aristides
In 'Classical Painting Atelier', Aristides, a leader in the atelier movement, takes students step-by-step through the finest works of Old Masters and today's most respected realist artists; revealing the principles of creating full-colour realist …
Portrait Painting Atelier Suzanne Brooker
This is a professional book focused on foundational principles of art and illustrated by old and contemporary masters. It gives serious beginners to professional artists an in-depth understanding of the old masters' unparalleled approach to paint …
In The Wilds Drawings by Nigel Peake
In the Wilds is a collection of artist Nigel Peake's hand-drawn observations of rural life. From the trees, fields, lakes, and rolling hills that define the country landscape, to the farm houses, tractors, fences, and telegraph poles that build …
Water Paper Paint Exploring Creativity with Watercolor and Mixed Media
This book is not only for 'painters' but for all types of creative individuals who want to experience and play with watercolor, whether their background is mixed-media, textile art, journaling, or paper craft. Unlike the typical watercolor text …
Color Me Graffiti How to Color Like the Masters
'Color Me Graffiti - How to Color like the Masters' is a coloring book aimed at providing the next generation of graffiti writers, art enthusiasts and children alike the chance to have fun coloring in a range of graffiti styles and characters …
An Illustrated Life offers a sneak peak into the wildly creative imaginations of top illustrators, designers and artists from around the world through the pages of their personal visual journals. Popular visual journalist and author Danny Gregory …
Extreme Perspective for Artist David Chelsea
This is an essential tool for any artist who wants to explore the more dramatic viewpoints employed by today's comics and graphic novel artists. It includes a DVD of perspective grids to help artists achieve dramatic perspectives from every angle…
Japanese Circular Ornamental Designs
Filled with deep, rich colors and delicate natural ornamentation, these diverse circular designs have been selected from a rare and extremely expensive volume. A visual feast for lovers of Japanese art, the images are perfect inspirations for …
Botanical Illustration Course With the Eden Project
'The Botanical Illustration Course' - published with the Eden Project - is your personal guide to the study of botanical drawing and watercolour painting. Devised by an award-winning botanical artist who teaches at the Eden Project, this course …
Anatomy for the Artist Sarah Simblet
Specially taken photographs show the construction of the human body while underlying anatomical structures are revealed using illustrations by the author.
Author Michael Massen presents his thorough and novel approach to drapery by first describing clothing and drapery as basic shapes and then illustrating how the mechanics of physics cause these shapes to bend, fold, or wrinkle in predictable ways…
Pattern is back, and what better way to celebrate its revival than with a cool compendium of the best pattern design from around the globe? This exciting new book showcases some of the most innovative pattern designs, including graphics, textiles,…
Creating Luminous Watercolour Landscape
After years of watching watercolourists rework their paintings until they're muddy and dull, Sterling Edwards has developed an easy four-step process that shows artists of all skill levels how to create and preserve the luminous qualities of …