Author: Harrison HazelPublisher: Lorenz Books
ISBN: 9781844777914
Category : Acrylic painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Learn to paint portraits, landscapes and still-lives with practice exercises and techniques for each medium.
Author: Ian SidawayPainting Urban and Cityscapes
Author: Hashim AkibPublisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785002694
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Cities provide endless exciting scenes for the artist, from sun-baked cafes, rain-soaked streets, illuminated nightscapes and busy squares to quiet, atmospheric corners. This practical book explains how to paint these scenes using water-based painting materials and new techniques. With invaluable tips and advice throughout, it encourages a looser, more colourful approach to painting and shares a range of ideas for style and intepretation. Includes a guide to water-based mediums including acrylic, watercolour and mixed media, with advice on drawing, creative colour mixing and perspective. With step-by-step instruction to techniques, including tackling a street scene, and creating and capturing the movement of people, this inspirational book will help you capture the colour and movement of urban scenes and develop your own creative style of painting. Will appeal to all artists, architects, urban sketchers, interior designers and building companies.Superbly illustrated with 190 colour images.
Watermedia Painting with Stephen Quiller
Author: Stephen QuillerPublisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Inspiring ideas from one of the world’s great art teachers • Top author—more than 100,000 books sold worldwide • Solid instruction from a watermedia expert • Tips and techniques for developing a personal style and vision Join renowned artist Stephen Quiller, the creator of the famous Quiller Wheel, the Quiller Palette, and the Quiller lines of paints, on a journey of art discovery and exploration. Watermedia Painting with Stephen Quiller is an in-depth look at all the watermedia paints available to today’s artists. Part One looks at watercolors, with illustrations of the visual characteristics of the mineral (sedimentary) and transparent (staining) and their effects with different paper surfaces. Part Two focuses on acrylics, gouache, and casein. In Part Three, Quiller shares his secrets for the most difficult aspect of painting—developing a personal style and vision. Packed with Quiller’s thoughts and ideas on painting philosophy, the meditative and spiritual aspects of art, photographing art, travel, and building a studio, this is an inspiring guide to living a creative life and creating art.
A Masterclass in Watercolours, Oils, Acrylics and Gouache
Author: Wendy JelbertPublisher: Southwater Publishing
ISBN: 9781780190570
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This text provides a complete step-by-step course in painting techniques, from getting started to achieving excellence. 50 full-scale projects, specially commissioned from leading professional artists, give the reader the chance to practice new-found skills.
Landscape Painting
Author: Mitchell AlbalaPublisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823008347
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Because nature is so expansive and complex, so varied in its range of light, landscape painters often have to look further and more deeply to find form and structure, value patterns, and an organized arrangement of shapes. In Landscape Painting, Mitchell Albala shares his concepts and practices for translating nature's grandeur, complexity, and color dynamics into convincing representations of space and light. Concise, practical, and inspirational, Landscape Painting focuses on the greatest challenges for the landscape artist, such as: • Simplification and Massing: Learn to reduce nature's complexity by looking beneath the surface of a subject to discover the form's basic masses and shapes.• Color and Light: Explore color theory as it specifically applies to the landscape, and learn the various strategies painters use to capture the illusion of natural light.• Selection and Composition: Learn to select wisely from nature's vast panorama. Albala shows you the essential cues to look for and how to find the most promising subject from a world of possibilities. The lessons in Landscape Painting—based on observation rather than imitation and applicable to both plein air and studio practice—are accompanied by painting examples, demonstrations, photographs, and diagrams. Illustrations draw from the work of more than 40 contemporary artists and such masters of landscape painting as John Constable, Sanford Gifford, and Claude Monet. Based on Albala's 25 years of experience and the proven methods taught at his successful plein air workshops, this in-depth guide to all aspects of landscape painting is a must-have for anyone getting started in the genre, as well as more experienced practitioners who want to hone their skills or learn new perspectives.
Mastering the Art of Oils, Acrylics and Gouache
Author: Ian SidawayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780681642935
Category : Acrylic painting
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
* Discover the pleasure of painting in acrylic, oil and gouache with this comprehensive, fully illustrated step-by-step guide to three popular painting techniques * A complete guide to artist's materials, including paint, brushes, additives, gels, pastes, supports, varnish, easels and much more * Includes the most common paint techniques together with small-scale practise exercises: wet into wet, drybrush, alla prima, glazing, scumbling, impasto and removing paint * 25 full-scale projects, specially commissioned from leading professional artists, give you the chance to practise your new-found skills * All the most popular subjects are covered including painting people, land- and seascapes, animals, still lifes, buildings and flowers * Packed with expert advice and beautifully illustrated with more than 900 color photographs, this reference book sets out everything you need to know in one easy-to-follow volume.
Beautiful Landscape Painting Outdoors
Author: Michael Chesley JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781684620456
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Many painters enjoy working outdoors when the weather is good (and they need to know how to deal with it when the weather changes)! This book includes the best instruction on the special challenges of painting landscapes outdoors from a variety of the best plein-air artists working today in all major media-oil, pastel, watercolor, acrylic and gouache. - Materials, site selection and practical tips - Values, shapes, composition, color and elements of landscape painting - Bringing outdoor studies back into the studio - Complete start-to-finish demonstrations - Hundreds of gorgeous images"--
How to Paint Landscapes Quickly and Beautifully in Watercolor and Gouache
Author: Nathan FowkesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781624650499
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
How to Paint Landscapes Quickly and Beautifully with Watercolor and Gouache reveals quick and effective painting setups and techniques to depict any landscape. From simplifying complex scenes and making smart choices about portraying light and texture, to establishing an effective color palette to enhance mood, world-renowned entertainment and fine artist Nathan Fowkes shares priceless lessons that he has developed over twenty five years of painting a broad range of places. His detailed tutorials and thoughtful insights will help you create more impactful, gallery-worthy landscapes on location--without an easel--in record time.
3000 Color Mixing Recipes: Watercolor
Author: Julie CollinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781446308196
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A practical and inspirational manual that shows you a huge range of color mixes in watercolor. The aim of the book is to encourage you to get to know colors well and be motivated to explore and experiment with color. Use the book as a handy reference when you want to know how to mix a specific color, or as a catalog of inspiration when seeking ideas to try in your work. The handy color viewing card included can be used to view each color swatch in isolation. This will help sharpen your perception of the color or allow you to pinpoint a specific shade to use in your own work.
