Arts

Painting as a Pastime...

This engaging essay on the delights of painting is available to the book trade for the first time since 1964 (originally published in 1948). ...

The Oil Painting Course You’ve Always Wanted...

Everything you always wanted to know about oil painting…but were afraid to ask. Or maybe you werent afraidmaybe you just didnt know what to ask or where to start. In The Oil Painting Course Youve Always Wanted, author Kathleen Staiger presents crystal clear, step-by-step lessons that build to reinforce learning. Brush control, creating the illusion of three dimensions, foolproof color mixing, still-life painting,...

Painting Abstracts: Ideas, Projects and Techniques...

Full instructions for 65 abstract paintings are provided in this guide that urges beginners to plunge right in, learning about composition, theme, and design while they paint. The history of abstract painting and its importance as a means of self-expression are covered in the guide’s beginning pages, and each of the paintings that follow conventional step-by-step instruction is replaced with information on composition,...

Painting Better Landscapes: Specific Ways to Impro...

This innovative book includes advice on solving problems, conveying mood, focusing attention, arranging subjects, and making...

Painting for the Absolute and Utter Beginner...

Based on the authors successful courses and workshops, Painting for the Absolute and Utter Beginner really does start at the beginning, helping new painters find “what works” while providing information on all the necessary tools, tips, and techniques theyll need to create a representational painting. The chapters follow a progressive sequence that teaches basic skills through practical, accessible exerciseshow...

Painting in Oils...

This is a visual book. Every aspect is covered in the form of a handwritten note, collected from decades of working with groups. Full color samples of the master’s own paintings, some simple and some major works, are on every page. Painting in Oils sets out the 7 essential techniques of oil painting as well as the vital philosophical principles that underpin fine art. This approach will suit artists who choose to be...

Painting Do-It-Yourself For Dummies...

Painting your home yourself can be faster, more affordable and even easier than hiring professionalsbut only if you get it right the first time. Painting Do-It-Yourself For Dummies, helps you do just that with easy-to-follow, step-by-step procedures for giving your, floors, walls, and ceilings the extreme makeover of your dreams. More than 500 photos and illustrations show you exactly how to perform each step of each...

Painting (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary A...

The “death of painting” and its subsequent resurrection in transformed conditions is a leitmotif of the modern era. Painting’s postconceptual resurgence at the start of the 1980s began a dramatic expansion of its field. If painting remains important today, it is because its contradictions have been acknowledged as artists have radically diversified the components of its production and presentation. This...

Painting with an Edge; How to Paint a Superior Lan...

What do you see when you look at a landscape? I mean a real, in-person landscape that you see when you get off the couch and get outside. Do you just see trees and water? A hill over there? Maybe a few rocks? Or do you see wide variations of green? Dazzling sparkles of sunlight? Cool shadows making rhythmic patterns? Reflected light bringing out awesome textures? If your answers were closer to the latter, then you see the...

Painting Brilliant Skies & Water in Pastel: Se...

From skies above to water below, discover the secrets to glorious landscapes! No two elements of the landscape bring the artist greater inspiration–or greater challenge–than sky and water. Get them right and you have magic. Get them wrong and your whole painting is off. In this book, popular pastel artist and teacher Liz Haywood-Sullivan shares her secrets for getting them both right, every time. With her...