Pocket Art Guides
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Art students and amateur painters will find practical advice and instruction in Barron's series of Pocket Art Guides, Each Pocket Art Guide is devoted to a specific aspect of painting or drawing, and includes many tips that even experienced professionals will find helpful. These information-packed hardcover books are handy artists' companions, small enough to carry along with art supplies on field trips. All titles feature instructive captioned color illustrations, as well as enlightening notes on how famous artists solved specific problems. Painting Outdoors opens with practical tips on special lightweight equipment and weatherproof clothing recommended for taking along on artists' field trips. Readers will also discover techniques for painting landscapes that suggest different times of day, as well as colors that dramatize the year's seasons, weather conditions, and night scenes. Instructions and exercises stress the importance of speed and spontaneity in execution to capture motion and light changes in outdoor settings.
Books in Barron's Pocket Art Guides series offer practical advice and instruction to art students and amateur painters. Each of these books focuses on a specific aspect of painting or drawing, and includes many tips that even experienced professionals will find new and helpful. All titles have many captioned color illustrations, as well as enlightening notes on how famous artists solved specific problems. In this title, color illustrations are shown in progress, step-by-step, as they demonstrate different ways to create the illusion of light through vivid color contrasts. Among the examples are paintings by famous artists, including the French master painter, caricaturist, and lithographer Honore Daumier.
Art students and amateur painters will find practical advice and instruction in Barron's series of Pocket Art Guides, Each Pocket Art Guide is devoted to a specific aspect of painting or drawing, and includes many tips that even experienced professionals will find helpful. These information-packed hardcover books are handy artists' companions, small enough to carry along with art supplies on field trips. All titles feature instructive captioned color illustrations, as well as enlightening notes on how famous artists solved specific problems. discusses ways in which artists can achieve dramatic and highly distinctive effects through special uses of color. Examples include Picasso's reliance on blue monochrome effects in a portrait as a means of heightening mood. A very different example shows Monet's shadows juxtaposed with bright colors to produce a memorably vivid effect in his rendering of haystacks.
Books in Barron's Pocket Art Guides series offer practical advice and instruction to art students and amateur painters. Each of these books focuses on a specific aspect of painting or drawing, and includes many tips that even experienced professionals will find new and helpful. All titles have many captioned color illustrations, as well as enlightening notes on how famous artists solved specific problems. This book describes different approaches to creating an abstract painting, ranging from simplification and distortion of identifiable subjects to the rendering of pure abstract forms. It also explains that artists who abandon figurative references must nevertheless demonstrate command of composition and color theory. Examples of abstract canvases by artists including Paul Klee and Robert Delaunay are shown and analyzed.
