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Capture Nature's Beauty with a Brush! Now you can capture all the beauty of nature with a composition that works every time. No matter what medium you work in, this easy-to-follow guide shows you precisely how to put together breathtaking landscapes. You'll learn 14 easy formulas for translating what you see in nature into eye-catching paintings. These strategies work on everything from sunsets and ocean views to trees and wildflowers. You can paint exactly what inspires you better than you eve...

This step-by-step, gorgeously illustrated entry into the popular "Painting Class" series introduces all the materials, techniques and styles needed to become comfortable with oil painting. Find out about the properties and ingredients of oil paint and how to mix your own and work with solvents and dryers. Learn when and how to use brushes and spatulas to shape the paint; how to create realistic flesh-tones; and how to "model" oils without blending brushstrokes. You'll also learn the characterist...

Explains how to paint in oils in an easy, step-by-step way. The author demonstrates how to use oils by using only four colours and three brushes and by painting on small canvases. Based on the Channel 4 TV series "Crawshaw Paints Oils", this book takes the reader through all aspects of painting from colour mixing and basic brush strokes to finished paintings of landscapes, people and animals.

In this workshop, you will learn how to create a wide variety of skin tones for realistic, expressive portrait paintings. Using six models in the studio, Chris helps you create color recipes for each skin tone in oil, showing, step by step, how to mix a wide range of colors in both light and shadow, so that you can create successful portraits of your own. * Mix color for blonds, red-heads, brunettes, light, olive and dark skin * Learn about color characteristics such as temperature, intensity, a...

From the late 15th to the mid-16th century, an impressive corpus of architecture, sculpture, and painting was created to embellish monastic sites affiliated with the Benedictine Cassinese Congregation of Italy. A religious order of humanistically trained monks, the Cassinese engaged with the most eminent artists and architects of the early modern period, supporting the production of imagery and architecture that was often highly experimental in nature: from Raphael's Sistine Madonna in Pi...

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Alain Picard's steps to pastel portrait painting make it easy for you to paint a realistic and beautiful portrait. Portrait painting is one of art history's greatest challenges, and in this video workshop, Alain gives you the tools you need to meet this head on as he paints a portrait from a photo, step by step, using soft and hard chalk pastels. With lighting tips to define drama and mood, drawing tips and tools that help you assess relationships of proportion and scale, design and edge tools t...

Learn to see, think and paint like an Impressionist master! Monet. Renoir. Van Gogh. Redfield. Garber. These beloved Impressionist masters continue to inspire with their rich and vivid artistry. Their styles and methods are alive and thriving today in the work of contemporary master George Gallo, who will lead you through all you need to know from start to finish to create Impressionist-inspired landscape paintings in oil.More than 50 powerful lessons, tips and secrets for composition, brushwork...

Paint the Atmosphere! Travel to Estes Park, Colorado, with contemporary landscape artist Frank Serrano, and learn the ins and outs of plein air painting, or painting outdoors. An avid naturalist, Frank is the perfect guide for painting on location. With Mastering Plein Air in Oil with Frank Serrano, you'll learn: --What oil paints and materials work best for traveling on location and painting in plein air style --What defines plein air painting and how to capture the outdoors on canvas --Tips...

The Oregon artist Nelson Sandgren (1917-2006) worked in three distinct media - oil painting, watercolor, and lithography - distinguishing himself in each of these modes throughout his sixty-five-year career. Nelson Sandgren: An Artist's Life is the first in-depth study of this mid-century Oregon modernist who was born in Canada, grew up in Chicago, and moved with his family to Oregon during the Depression. As a watercolorist who loved to paint on site, often on the Oregon coast, Sandgren worked...