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This exceptional full-colour book, packed with over 150 illuminating photographs, shows you how to create a stunning variety of paintings - including landscapes, portraits and still lifes - in less than a day. Through a number of step-by-step examples, Noel Gregory demonstrates the versatility of oil painting. Learn how to create powerful images quickly and simply with easy-to-follow demonstrations, accompanied by helpful hints, techniques and tips to go further. Expand your painting horizons...

People who want to learn to paint landscapes with oil without relying on their drawing skills will find everything they need in this inspiring and practical book. Reusable tracings are provided for five step-by-step demonstrations, making this is a great way to learn to paint landscapes from all over the world.

How Art Is Made looks at renowned works of art from across the centuries and around the globe and asks the intriguingly simple question – how were these works actually made?   Divided into two sections – materials and methods – each chapter showcases a single work of art which demonstrates the mastery and innovative use of a single material or method, from oil paint, pastel and pencil, to woodcut, litho and impasto. Each work is presented as the centerpiece of a capsule history, while comparat...

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.

A lavishly illustrated book teaching artists how to render dozens of textures in oil. Features some of the most thoroughly documented sequences of step-by-steps of the painting process ever published.

In Twinkles, Miss Van has gone from painting the curvy, enticing pin-ups in the streets of Toulouse, to producing the melancholic and subtle works showcased at her exhibition at the 18 Gallery in Shanghai and the Magda Danysz Gallery in Paris. Together with an insightful introduction by Magda Danysz, as well as an exclusive look at many paintings that were not featured in the exhibition, the book presents an immersive and encapsulating transition into the renowned artist's new, darker style. "I'...

Cada explicacion esta ilustrada con demostraciones a todo color cuidadosamente escogidas para ayudar a mejorar las tecnicas y los resultados de la pintura al oleo.

With the Quick Reference Series, painters who need fast instruction and inspiration finally have the perfect resource. And with Trees & Foliage, they now have the broadest collection of sample trees, shrubs, leaves, and grasses available on the market. Regardless of experience, readers will benefit from: Easy-to-follow directions with over 350 colour photos providing step-by-step guidance; A wide variety of plant life, shown in all four seasons, from multiple painters in a broad range of styles;...

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...

Inspired by Paul Gauguin in the last decade of the nineteenth century, the Nabis saw themselves as prophets of a new art. This vibrant illustrated book showcases rarely seen paintings, prints, and decorative arts by the visionary artists associated with the Nabis: Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Henri Evenepoel, Aristide Maillol, Paul Ranson, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Felix Vallotton, Edouard Vuillard, and others. Essays by leading scholars of European modernism explore the relationship between Nabi a...

A nationally known artist leads students through 36 "step-by-steps" to becoming the oil painters they want to be.

Eight projects introduce an exciting approach to animal painting that achieves a finished, realistic look.

Painting and Understanding Abstract Art is a practical book on how to paint abstracts but it also explains how to approach and understand abstract art. It moves the teaching of art from a doing level of painting a certain subject in a particular medium to a thinking level of 'what am I doing when I paint?' and 'what am I trying to say in this painting?' Using practical exercises with explanatory text, John Lowry develops the thinking and doing processes together and leads the reader to a great...