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Learn to watercolor paint in 10 easy steps! Get inspired with gentle and serene watercolor painting as your next calming hobby. Learn the foundational skills of watercolor painting with various techniques that will leave you feeling confident in your skills. The watercolors explained in this book achieve two essential objectives: to immediately enjoy painting and acquiring a solid foundation. Master the basics through 10 gorgeous watercolor projects....
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"Brushstrokes Through Time: Art in the Ancient World" takes readers on a captivating journey across civilizations and epochs, exploring the diverse artistic expressions of antiquity. From the earliest forms of art to the enduring legacy left by ancient cultures, the book paints a comprehensive portrait of the visual language that shaped the ancient world and continues to resonate in the canvas of human history.
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Over 20 simple watercolour projects for beginners, packed with techniques and tips.
Paint beautiful watercolours with ease, even if you've never picked up a brush! With a fully illustrated step-by-step introduction and a range of beautiful projects to paint, you'll quickly go from painting novice to art aficionado. Over 20 simple watercolour projects for beginners, packed with techniques and tips. Paint beautiful watercolours with ease, even if you've...
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Your guide to painting with acrylics Acrylic paints are versatile, water-based paints popular with professionals and beginners alike. You can learn to acrylic paint with this playful, exploratory guide to new techniques and ideas for working with stretched canvas. The 24 projects demonstrate the possibilities of acrylic paints and encourage experimenting to achieve various effects. Start with all the basics about acrylic painting, from paints and...
7) Old Dogs
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Following the success of A Dog a Day (Pavilion, 2017), Sally Muir returns with a collection of new, but crucially old, faces. Several years ago Sally Muir began a Facebook project, posting dog art daily, which became the best-selling book A Dog A Day. Through the project she was introduced to endless people and their dogs, and the distinct personalities and complex emotions that owners attribute to them. More recently, Sally's project changed focus...
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A complete guide on how to use various types of paint to complete your woodcarving projects! Author and professional woodcarver Betty Padden provides clear, detailed instruction for each paint type, acrylics, oil paints, latex paints, and thinned acrylics. Featuring step-by-step instructions, coordinating photography, material lists, and wood carving patterns, also included is insightful advice and expert tips on working with each type of paint on...
9) Artprompts
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Stuck for something to draw? Want to improve your skills on the widest range of subjects you possibly can? Searching for inspiration for that graphic novel you've been planning to start work on forever? Then look no further. Artprompts, derived from the popular website of the same name, is a treasure trove of brilliant ideas for artists to dip in and out of, and the best way ever to overcome creative block. It's bursting with hundreds of imaginative...
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Choose color combinations confidently every time! Expand your color confidence with a comprehensive dictionary of color combinations! Color combinations are made simple with this helpful reference that includes endless numbers of color palettes for artists to perfect their color selection every time. Every color you want to experiment with, from the colors of the rainbow to pastels, neons, metallics, and more are included in inspirational mood boards...
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Create your own beautiful fabric landscapes • Master 12 different fabric painting techniques with detailed, step-by-step photos • Build your own stunning stash of fabrics with painted landscapes, water scenes, and dreamy skies • Learn Mickey's "design strip" technique to make dynamic quilts using large, uncut sections of your fabrics • Suitable for all skill levels; 3 projects included With Mickey Lawler, the best-selling author of SKYDYES,...
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Petite in size but packed with inspiration, Just Draw Botanicals presents 90 beautiful, contemporary botanical artworks in a range of media and styles.
Each spread includes a stunning work of art paired with a discussion of the artist's approach to creating it, including the techniques employed. At the bottom of the page, find tips on the tools, materials and methods used to make the piece.
A hyper-realistic blackberry, a watercolour sketch of a...
13) Patrick Heron
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Published to accompany the first major Patrick Heron retrospective in two decades, this book will feature the best of Heron's paintings, from the 1940s to his late career, alongside thought-provoking text. Patrick Heron (1920-99) held a unique position in twentieth-century art. As one of the first British artists to embrace abstraction, he played a major role in the development of postwar art. Heron welcomed the eruption of American art in the 1950s...
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