Artists Library
10 total works
This provides a basic guide to painting seascapes. The book begins with an overview of the whole genre and a thorough look at materials for painting in oil and watercolour. The author includes useful information about how to handle colour, light, reflections, composition, and perspective when painting the sea. Step-by-step demonstrations show artists painting seascapes in different stlyes. Francesc Crespo is the author of "How to Paint Flowers".
The city is a never-ending source of subject matter for artists, and watercolour is one good way of capturing these images. This book shows how to look at the city, recognize the aesthetic quality of its panoramas, and capture them in watercolour. Numerous exercises give step-by-step guidance on how to apply the techniques described. This book is aimed specifically at artists who are just beginng to paint buildings.
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".
This book provides concise coverage of everything any artist interested in the medium of coloured pencil needs to know - materials, techniques, colour theory, and practical applications to a wide variety of subject matter. The chapter on basic methods explains such essentials as achieving gradations and values, mixing colours, white pencil, and mixed media techniques. Fully illustrated step-by-step practice exercises show how to compose an image using just the three primary colours and black; how to paint a still life using a full range of hues; how to create portraits working with a live model and with a photograph; and how to paint with watercolour pencils. Framing finished works is also discussed, and a glossary is included.
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, and they finally paint a still life using all colours.
After a brief introduction to the principles of landscape composition, this book includes four detailed, step-by-step demonstrations in which watercolour artists paint landscapes in very different styles. Each artist gives useful tips about materials, planning a composition, painting outdoors and other tricks attributed to the landscape painter's trade. Previous books by this author include "Oil Painting", "Watercolor" and "Drawing".