Each Bob Ross book is carefully detailed with step-by-step instructions and full color paintings, based on the PBS oil painting TV series, ""The Joy of Painting"". Each volume contains an introduction that includes sections covering paints, mixing colors, palette, brushes, bru... [Read more]
In this treasure trove you'll find an overview of the tools and materials of oil painting, along with advice about color palette, color mixing, and applied color theory. You'll learn about preparing a canvas, designing a composition, direct painting, scumbling, blending, layering, glazing, impast... [Read more]
Brand: Watson-Guptill Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Oil Painting
Until now, the techniques used to create great abstract paintings were surrounded by a veil of mystery. Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques lifts that veil to reveal the exact methods behind the masterworks. Now students and professional artists can stop guessing and start building on the ... [Read more]
Brand: Watson-Guptill Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques
This is the ideal introductory book for anyone with an interest in learning how to paint with oils, acrylic, and gouache. Advice is given on choosing and using paints, brushes, palettes, papers, and canvas, and on working with paint additives and sealing work with different types of varnish. The ... [Read more]
Brand: Southwater Painting with Oils, Acrylics, & Gouache
Vicki McMurray has a passion for bringing the beauty of nature's colors to her canvas, and an equal passion for sharing her love of color with other artists. In Mastering Color, she offers an engaging and unique color workshop -- from the basics of selecting a palette to advanced instruction on c... [Read more]
Brand: North Light Mastering Color: The Essentials of Color Illustrated with Oils
Impressionism has captured the imagination of people the world over since its first exhibition in Paris in 1874. People have long sought to understand how and why the Impressionists created their paintings and how their techniques might be replicated. Susie Hodge reveals the answers to these ques... [Read more]
Brand: HarperCollins How to Paint Like the Impressionists
Everything you always wanted to know about oil painting...but were afraid to ask. Or maybe you weren't afraid maybe you just didn't know what to ask or where to start. In The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted, author Kathleen Staiger presents crystal clear, step-by-step lessons that build ... [Read more]
Brand: Watson-Guptill The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted
Each Bob Ross book is carefully detailed with step-by-step instructions and full color paintings, based on the PBS oil painting TV series, ""The Joy of Painting"". Each volume contains an introduction that includes sections covering paints, mixing colors, palette, brushes, bru... [Read more]
A series of 18 step-by-step demonstrations show you how to use color, the principles of design, the power of light, and other artistic tools to dramatize and harmonize the feeling of weather throughout your entire scene. Many inspiring examples of landscape art illustrate how through the eyes of ... [Read more]
Brand: North Light Painting the Elements: Weather Effects in Oil, Acrylic, and Watercolor
Create personal, poetic landscapes infused with a sense of being there. Get seasoned advice on capturing the spirit of place in sketches, field studies and reference photos. Back in your studio, explore ways to relive the outdoor experience, enlarge your ideas, and refine your compositions withou... [Read more]
Brand: North Light Landscape Painting Inside & Out
This addition to the Workshop series will show you how to use your oil paints to their best advantage. This simple and innovative guide makes oil painting achievable for everyone. Filled with practical step-by-step instructions, this portable guide guarantees success. Format: paperback, 128 pgs.,... [Read more]
Develop from a serious beginner into a dedicated professional artist. If looking at wonderful paintings fills you with desire to create your own, this book is for you. Practical, step-by-step instruction and fully illustrated demonstrations are provided. You will learn how to: select paint, canva... [Read more]
Brand: Watson-Guptill Oil Painting For the Serious Beginner
Here's a brand new series for dedicated amateurs that will also by used and valued by professional artists. Each title in the Artist's Handbook Series has a sturdy hardcover binding, allowing it to be taken out to the field as handily as it is used in the studio. The books hidden spiral bindings ... [Read more]
This reference book for art students, teachers, and professionals presents examples of finished paintings, as well as color charts that demonstrate color mixing as it applies to watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Students learn how to choose and mix colors to produce the maximum color range from th... [Read more]
Each Bob Ross book is carefully detailed with step-by-step instructions and full color paintings, based on the PBS oil painting TV series, ""The Joy of Painting"". Each volume contains an introduction that includes sections covering paints, mixing colors, palette, brushes, bru... [Read more]
Looking for fun new ways to paint trees? Want to portray a breaking wave, but have no idea where to begin? Do your storm clouds look more like weird, gray cotton balls, and your sunsets like random splotches of color? The solutions are easier than you think and you'll find them all in Painter's Q... [Read more]
Each Bob Ross book is carefully detailed with step-by-step instructions and full color paintings, based on the PBS oil painting TV series, ""The Joy of Painting"". Each volume contains an introduction that includes sections covering paints, mixing colors, palette, brushes, bru... [Read more]
Landscape painting is all about capturing that feeling that embraced you at the scene: the graceful arch of birch trees in the wind, the unthinkable pink masses of ground cover along a seaside trail, the last afternoon sun accenting yellow aspen trees against the foreboding darkness of the clouds... [Read more]
Brand: North Light Land & Light Workshop: Painting Mood & Atmosphere in Oils