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Learn to draw any animal and turn it into a sweet, delightful creature that always inspires a smile.
“You Can Draw Cute Animals” features easy techniques for turning up the charm on 30 animals that run, fly, swim, slither, and waddle. Discover how to create sparkling eyes, blushing cheeks, joyful smiles, and button noses, transforming even the most ferocious beasts into delightful, appealing characters.
This comprehensive guide to understanding...
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Find inspiration in the great outdoors and create simple, expressive watercolor paintings of the plants and animals that live there.
In “Nature Painting in Watercolor”, beginning and aspiring artists can learn to paint their favorite ferns, leaves, trees, florals, as well as animals, in a contemporary style using the popular watercolor medium. Start by learning about the tools and materials needed to paint in watercolor; then dive into a thorough...
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What could be more satisfying than producing a beautiful painting of a flower? Jill Winch is an award-winning botanical artist and has been teaching people to paint and draw flowers for many years. In this delightful book, she teaches the key skills for making successful paintings of flowers in watercolor, the medium of choice for botanical artists. She breaks the process down into manageable steps, taking examples from a wide range of flowers. Throughout...
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Take your watercolor painting beyond the studio-learn how to effectively use color and light to capture mood, create atmosphere, and convey emotion on location.
Geared for beginning artists, “En Plein Air: Light & Color” introduces a variety of techniques for on-location watercolor painting. Following a brief introduction to the basics of painting en plein air and an overview of the necessary tools and materials, you will learn how to choose...
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This practical guide is perfect for those looking to try this ancient art form for the first time!
In this book, Japanese master artist Shozo Koike reveals the simple secrets of Sumi-e, offering step-by-step instructions with clear photographs and online video tutorials showing you how to paint 18 traditional subjects.
Sumi-e is the meditative Japanese form of ink painting taught by Zen Buddhist monks to encourage mindfulness and an awareness of...
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For artists looking to grow beyond the studio, En Plein Air: Watercolor is the definitive resource for experiencing the rewards and invigoration of watercolor painting on location.
En Plein Air: Watercolor introduces beginning artists and fine-art enthusiasts to the core concepts of painting on location. This guide will have you fully prepared for a day of painting outdoors. Inside, you'll find a comprehensive list of what to pack to maximize your...
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Learn how to make the most of nature in on-location drawings and paintings with artists and Urban Sketcher educators Gail L. Wong and Virginia Hein.
In “The Urban Sketching Handbook Spotlight on Nature”, Gail and Virginia share their secrets for getting beyond basic greenery. Presenting a variety of approaches, including detailed step-by-step examples and quick, insightful tips, this book explains and clarifies important fundamentals for composition...
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Learning to paint is fun, and it's easier than you think. This book will save you many years of learning, by providing a simplified approach to painting watercolours. All the techniques you'll need are explained and demonstrated by inspirational teacher Keith Fenwick, who takes you through the processes in easy stages. The comprehensive content includes: • Easy to follow stage-by-stage demonstrations • Watercolour painting techniques • Key points...
89) One Watercolor a Day: A 6-Week Course Exploring Creativity Using Watercolor, Pattern, and Design
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Spark new ideas and increase your creativity with One Watercolor a Day. This enchanting art book contains six weeks' worth of daily watercolor paintings and exercises to help you cultivate your imagination and develop your style. Each day will bring you a new painting by one of eight professional illustrators and includes a description of the work, helpful comments by the artist, and a companion exercise that encourages you to put brush to paper to...
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With helpful tips and easy-to-follow lessons, The Art of Painting Sea Life in Watercolor will teach readers everything they need to know to create beautiful works of art in watercolor. The Art of Painting Sea Life in Watercolor opens with a guide to essential information on the necessary tools and materials for both sketching and painting, including pencils, paints and brushes, palettes, supports, and mediums. In addition to learning about basic drawing...
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Learn how to capture the beauty of nature in pencil, pen and watercolour with this inspiring guide from award-winning botanical artist Jill Winch. The first half of the book shows you how to capture the shape, form and texture of a wide range of flowers and their leaves in pencil and in pen and wash. The second part shows how to work in watercolour, the medium of choice for most botanical artists, to create exquisite colour artworks.
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In “The Urban Sketching Handbook: Panoramas and Vertical Vistas”, urban sketcher and art educator Mario Linhares gives a guided tour on how to explore and capture cityscapes, landscapes, and more in drawings from unique points of view.
In this thorough yet accessible book, you'll learn how to:
• Improve your drawing skills and selectively translate what you see for maximum impact
• Fearlessly use your sketchbook as a laboratory for experimenting...
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Drawing and painting realistic flowers is achievable! Create a wide variety of blooms and greenery using an easy step-by-step method, then add watercolor for gorgeous effects.
In “Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers”, discover how to draw flowers such as cosmos, hibiscus, canola, lily of the valley, hydrangea, foxglove, and more from various angles, and learn about perspective and shading. Once you have the skills to draw a single flower,...
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Explore the basics of color theory and color mixing, and then apply your new skills to create your own beautiful floral watercolor paintings, step by colorful step.
Color theory and color mixing are essential topics for all artists to know, and “Contemporary Color Theory: Watercolor Flowers” covers both in an easy-to-follow way with simple, actionable steps that any artist can do. Learn how to:
• Mix paint colors
• Avoid "dirty" mixes (those...
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“Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Animals” presents practical and creative techniques for drawing and painting animals in a variety of mediums and styles, from realistic to cartoon.
With accessible, encouraging guidance from Amarilys Henderson-artist, popular online instructor, and author of “Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces’-explore:
• Basic Supplies. Learn about the sketching and painting mediums you'll use in your work,...
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Master the impressionist painting style with Painting the Impressionistic Landscape!
The Impressionist movement that began 130 years ago set artists free to experiment outdoors, capturing the fleeting effects and many moods of sunlight in their paintings by juxtaposing contrasting colors. Although those colors may not actually be apparent in nature, on canvas and paper they appear spontaneous and naturalistic. The skill is in knowing how to select...
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Do you love to create imaginative artwork? Would you like to add depth and richness to your creations? Could you use fresh inspiration? Here is the book that will help you brush up on your skills and add new tricks and techniques to your repertoire. Sketching, line art, watercolors, mixed media, composition, rendering methods ― The Fantasy Artroom is your all-in-one traveling companion into the world of fantasy art. These step-by-step demonstrations...
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« Je peins ce que je vois et non ce qu'il plaît aux autres de voir. » D'autres mots que ceux d'Édouard Manet, à la touche pourtant si différente de celle de Monet ou de Renoir, pourraient-ils mieux définir ce que fut l'Impressionnisme ? Sans doute cette singularité explique-t-elle que, peu de temps avant sa mort, Claude Monet écrivit : « Je reste désolé d'avoir été la cause du nom donné à un groupe dont la plupart n'avait rien d'impressionniste....
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Whilst Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionizing an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated color and opened it to new, unknown horizons. Anchored in his epoch, relying on the new chromatic studies of Michel Eugène Chevreul, Georges Seurat transcribed the chemist's theory of colors into tiny points that created an entire image. With his...
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Si l'Impressionnisme marqua les premiers pas vers la peinture moderne en révolutionnant un milieu artistique étouffé par les conventions académiques, le Post-Impressionnisme, plus révolutionnaire encore, libéra totalement la couleur et lui ouvrit des horizons alors inconnus. Ancré dans son époque, s'appuyant sur les nouvelles études chromatiques de Chevreul, Georges Seurat transcrivit en pointillés la théorie des couleurs du chimiste. Dans...
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