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This title helps you in mastering the art of drawing and painting with step-by-step projects and techniques shown in over 2450 photographs. This is a boxed set of fully illustrated practical guides to painting and drawing with watercolours, oils, acrylics, gouaches and charcoal. It includes a complete guide to artist's materials. This is a comprehensive teaching course from beginner level to advanced skills: the different strokes, washes, and how to mix the paints to create the right palette, dr...

Learn how to create your own Deep Impasto® masterpieces using a palette knife and oil paints with this book featuring tips, techniques, and 8 complete step-by-step projects. Professional artist Lisa Elley works from her studio in the San Francisco Bay Area with the purpose of inspiring and bringing joy to people through her art. In Palette Knife Painting: Deep Impasto, Lisa shares her techniques with you through easy-to-follow step-by-step projects. Learn to paint:   Art inspired by Vincent...

The secrets of successful decorative painting techniques are simply explained in this comprehensive sourcebook. Step-by-step demonstrations show artists of all abilities different painting strokes and how to produce beautiful decorative art. A colorful variety of popular fruits, vegetables and berries are offered. Each subject is illustrated with clear, instructional images with captions that show how to build the subjects stroke-by-stroke. Additional decorative items such as leaves, stems and f...

12 step-by-step projects utilize traditional and water-soluble oil paints for richer blending and heightened realism. An ideal instruction book for fine artists and decorative painters alike.

Roy Lang shows you how to capture the power, majesty and atmosphere of the sea. Learn how the sea and sky interact in nature, and how to portray their many moods in oils. Detailed sections on light and atmosphere provide ideal starting points for the beginner, while many hints and tips are provided throughout for any level of artist. The book also contains two step-by-step demonstrations that explain in simple terms how to paint the sea and sky in oils.

Alla Prima is a comprehensive guide to direct painting, characterised by bold, expressive brushwork and a painterly, atmospheric surface. It covers the history of the direct methods in both Europe and America. From there, it includes detailed step-by-step lessons and discussions on drawing structure, broken and smooth brushwork, and colour development.

In this book, Harriet Shorr demonstrates her method of direct painting in which the subject is divested of conventional understanding and seen, instead, simply as shapes, colours, and tones. These are painted as they appear to the field of vision, rather than to a fixed point of view. The hand then responds to what the eye sees and the gesture of the brush is an expression of feeling aroused by the perception. The subject matter is still life, which Shorr believes is most compatible with her met...

A step-by-step approach to impasto painting which is a thick oil paint used to build up a surface as textured as a stucco wall. Addressed to both beginners and advanced painters alike, the author offers advice on paint supports and a variety of methods of attaining diverse effects in the painting of landscapes, still-lifes and portraits. David Millard is also the author of two previous publications on the subject - "Joy", and "More Joy of Watercolour". This watercolourist has now turned to this...

A first-rate painter with an established reputation in the art world combines intelligent, thoughtful text with his beautiful paintings in a book that offers generous, thorough instruction in methods and techniques that will appeal to a vast audience. 200 full-color illustrations.

This concise introduction to oil painting contains everything a beginner needs to know. After a brief look at the history of the medium, it explains how to select, use, and care for oil painting materials and tools. Many useful tips are included about composition, colour theory, and the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Painting exercises begin with painting a sphere and a cube in one colour plus white. Readers later mix warm, cool and neutral ranges of colours from three colours plus white,...

This guide to painting still-life opens with a brief overview of the genre and the basic principles of painting. This is followed by four artists as they present contrasting styles, techniques, and ideas on composition as they paint still-life compositions step-by-step. The book is aimed at beginner and intermediate level artists. Other books by this author include "Oil Painting", "Watercolor" and "Drawing".