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In The Art of Painting Animals, aspiring painters will learn how to work with oil, acrylic, and watercolor paints to bring their favorite animals to life on paper or canvas. Each medium has its section that begins with an introduction, which includes a section of helpful information on basic tools and materials ??including paints, brushes, appropriate supports, and additional materials ??followed by a quick guide to techniques and artist tips for rendering animal features and fur, as well as nat...

Push Color Beyond the Ordinary Let go of what you see, and paint what you feel! Brilliant Color reveals a new way of thinking about color, empowering you to push the envelope beyond ordinary realism into bold landscapes full of life and energy. The transformation begins by learning to see color as value. Starting with short demos featuring diagrams, color wheels and side-by-side visual comparisons, award-winning artist Julie Gilbert Pollard shows you how to liberate your use of color to capture...

Die ersten Bände des mit über 40 Bände umfassenden geplanten Werkverzeichnisses des Künstlers Michael Müller – ein einzigartiges über Jahrzehnte angelegtes Vorhaben – bieten einen Überblick über das malerische Œuvre Müllers. Sie dokumentieren zahlreiche Werke, gruppiert nach Serien und Werkgruppen. Zu allen Arbeiten werden neben den Werkangaben umfangreiche Informationen geliefert: Ausstellungshistorie, Provenienz, Literaturverweise und persönliche Anmerkungen des Künstlers zu Entstehungsgeschic...

Vernon Kerr invites you into his artistic world as he teaches you how to re-create an array of beautiful seascapes and landscapes in oil. With tips on choosing the best painting surfaces and materials, the book explains the artist s personal approach to painting. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions explain how to paint backlit subjects, how to use colors effectively, how to prepare painting surfaces, and more, with special attention given to painting sunsets, snow, leaves, sand, rocks, clo...

Suitable for both the beginner and enthusiast alike, this guide provides you with all you need to know to draw and paint portraits with confidence and proficiency. Advice is given on positioning your model, anatomy, proportion and lighting.

Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770) was the greatest Italian painter of the eighteenth century, best known for his monumental frescoes and epic altarpieces. The scale of these paintings is immense, even overpowering. Yet some of Tiepolo's finest work can be found in the small oil sketches that he often made in preparation for these grand commissions. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum from May 3 to September 4, 2005, Giambattista Tiepolo: Fifteen Oil Sketches brings togeth...

A comprehensive, novel reassessment of the life and work of one of America's most influential self-taught artists, John Kane. The book presents a full account of Kane's life as a working man, including his time as a steelworker, coal miner, street paver, and commercial painter in and around Pittsburgh at the height of the industrial era. How these occupations shaped his development as an artist and his breakthrough success in the modern art world is carefully explored and analyzed in this richly...

Written in a clear style this detailed guide to mixing colour is full of recipes for getting just the right shade for all kinds of painting styles in oil based or acrylic media.'

After exploring tools and materials, he explores tips for various oil painting techniques as well as instructions for how to create special effects for landscape elements such as skies, trees, mountains, roads, clouds, and lakes. Following demonstrations that show how to develop an oil painting into a finished work of art using the unique Alexander Wet-on-Wet Technique, aspiring artists will discover how to create a beautiful finished painting in just one sitting. Best of all, you will find a we...

"Alla Prima" is a practical and comprehensive guide to direct painting (characterised by bold, expressive brushwork and a painterly, atmospheric surface), particularly as it is expressed though the work of the author's mentor, Arthur DeCosta, the legendary master teacher. The book covers the history of the direct methods in both Europe and America. From there, it covers detailed step-by-step lessons and invaluable discussions on drawing structure, broken and smooth brushwork and colour developme...

This third instalment in the Painter's Quick Reference series combines ideas and inspiration with the simple instruction of step-by-step demonstrations. Painters of all skill levels can dive into over 50 flower-painting demos displaying a variety of techniques. The guide has: Quick ideas for any painting project An intuitive, see-it, do-it layout: short captions, labels, tips and sidebars Streamlined demos averaging four to eight steps Contributions from more than two dozen top artists will appe...

A monument to the talent of Canadian women artists in the interwar period, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment provides a full and diverse cross-country survey of the art made by women during this pivotal time, incorporating the work of both settler and Indigenous visual artists in a stirring affirmation of the female creative voice.