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The Art of Colour Mixing
by Jeremy Galton, Nick Harris, John Lidzey, Jill Mirza
A small practical handbook on choosing and mixing colours successfully. It shows how to create the maximum colour range from the minimum number of paints. The authors address watercolours, acrylics and oils, showing how to mix, blend and dilute in order to achieve a range of effects.
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Seven Keys to Great Paintings
by Jane R Hofstetter
Seven Keys to Great Paintings puts the fun back into painting with lighthearted, down-to-earth instruction that also reveals the core elements of painting design. Each of the seven chapters begins with a poem verse to help readers remember the message behind the concepts; The emphasis on watercolour will appeal to painting's largest audience, as well as general painters; Creative, game-like instructions; Full-page charts and 8 well-illustrated step-by-step demos make the concepts easy to understand and apply; In addition, the author's friendly, personal tone and extensive workshop experience are sure to charm and encourage painters of all levels.
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Acrylic Workbook
by Jenny Rodwell
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This essential, complete guide to the versatile, popular medium of acrylic for beginners and improvers introduces the basic materials and techniques, and leads the reader through a series of progressively challenging lessons. The learning objectives of the 10 step-by-step lessons are clearly set out to show the skills readers will achieve, and how they can use the techniques in subsequent paintings. It covers a diverse and popular range of themes, from still lifes and landscapes through to people and collages.
Contents:
Introduction
- Materials and Equipment
- Lesson 1: Colour
- Lesson 2: Getting Started
- Lesson 3: Creating Textures
- Lesson 4: Washes
- Lesson 5: Creating Form
- Lesson 6: Still Life
- Lesson 7: Effects with Paint
- Lesson 8: Landscape
- Lesson 9: People
- Lesson 10: Collage
- Glossary
- Index.
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An Introduction to Painting Portraits
This guide is packed with practical information and advice on capturing a good likeness, understanding proportion, developing fluency and selecting the right medium when painting a portrait. Step-by-step demonstrations accompany the text and there is a wealth of illustrative material.
Contents:
Proportion, foreshortening, measuring
- light and shade
- composition and design
- painting skin tones
- eyes and mouth
- noses and ears
- painting hands
- hair, spectacles, and makeup
- clothing, jewellery and hats
- watercolour and pastels
- acrylics and oils
- photography and group portraits
- unusual portraits
- commissions.
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Artist's Complete Problem and Solution Handbook
by Trudy Friend
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This comprehensive handbook is packed with practical and insightful solutions to common problems for both drawing and watercolour media. It features clearly explained techniques for a wide range of popular themes - including landscapes, buildings, animals, flowers, still life, and people. Its innovative spread design highlights common problems, and provides simple and effective solutions. Its small format means the artist can take this indispensable guide wherever they go.
Contents:
Drawing
- Trees and Woodland
- Open Landscapes and Skies
- Water in Landscapes
- Buildings in Landscapes
- Village Houses and Cottages
- Gardens
- Plants and Flowers
- Vegetables
- Textures
- Pets
- Horses and Ponies
- Portraits
- Watercolour
- Skies and Water
- Trees and Foliage
- Flowers
- Fruit and Vegetables
- Animals
- Still Lifes in the Landscape
- Still-Life Materials
- Buildings
- Conclusion
- Index.
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Brushwork Essentials
by Mark Christopher Weber
Knowing how to use a brush properly is essential for effective oil painting. Brushwork Essentials shows artists everything they need to know to render a variety of elegant strokes, along with other exciting techniques like paint mixing and brush shaping. Weber makes mastering each technique easy. He provides detailed, easy-to-follow instructions, step-by-step demonstrations and complementary artwork that highlights each brushstroke as it appears on the canvas. Readers will also learn how to use different strokes to achieve specific effects, such as lighting, shadowing and more.
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Acrylics - Artist Questions Answered
by David Cithbert
These titles are aimed as guides that answer all the questions which artists have about getting the best results from their chosen medium. Laid out in a user-friendly way, the books are styled in a question-and-answer format, illustrated with correct and incorrect ways of using the tools and getting the most from different techniques. The authors tackle the problems that serious beginners and amateur artists are likely to encounter and offer a variety of solutions.
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Oils - Artist Questions Answered
By Ros Cuthbert
These titles are aimed as guides that answer all the questions which artists have about getting the best results from their chosen medium. Laid out in a user-friendly way, the books are styled in a question-and-answer format, illustrated with correct and incorrect ways of using the tools and getting the most from different techniques. The authors tackle the problems that serious beginners and amateur artists are likely to encounter and offer a variety of solutions.
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Watercolours - Artist Questions Answered
by David Norman
These titles are aimed as guides that answer all the questions which artists have about getting the best results from their chosen medium. Laid out in a user-friendly way, the books are styled in a question-and-answer format, illustrated with correct and incorrect ways of using the tools and getting the most from different techniques. The authors tackle the problems that serious beginners and amateur artists are likely to encounter and offer a variety of solutions.
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The Complete Chinese Brush Painting Course
by Wang Jia Nan, Cai Xiaoli, Dawn Young
This book is a beginner’s step-by-step guide to the art of Chinese brush painting. Highly illustrated, it takes the reader through the materials and equipment needed as well as the various techniques that are employed in this style of painting. The book contains 24 project-based lessons, each concentrating on traditional elements or themes. The work of a number of artists is included making this both a beautiful and inspirational guide to the subject.
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