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Landscape Painting Inside and Out: Capture the Vitality of Outdoor Painting in Your Studio With Oils
Kevin MacPherson is a well-respected artist and past President of the Plein Air Painters of America. In this book, he shares what he has learned from his many years of experience as a plein air painter. His advice is practical and thorough.
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Oil Painter's Solution Book Landscapes: XX Answers to Your Oil Painting Questions
Libby Tolley provides practical advice and excellent, to-the-point instruction for landscape painting.
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A Celebration of Light: Painting the Textures of Light in Watercolor
Create watercolor paintings with a strong visual impact. Learn to set up better compositions, use a full range of values, bring out more color in your work, play up textures, and paint effective backgrounds. Jane includes intructions on how to paint reflections, glass, lace and beautiful light patterns.
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Watercolor in Motion: How to Create Powerful Paintings, Step by Step (Book & DVD)
Demonstrations help you learn different techniques such as wet on wet, and soft and hard edges and the best way to blend colors.
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Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits: More than 500 Color Combinations for skin, eyes, lips & hair (Color Mixing Recipes)
Who hasn't struggled with getting the right skin tones in a portrait painting? Powell simplifies the process by giving you a sort of "cheat sheet" to work with for a variety of skin colors, including recipes for hair, eye, and lip colors.
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The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted: Guided Lessons for Beginners and Experienced Artists
This book covers everything you should have learned in art school, but perhaps didn't. Kathleen guides you through color mixing, creating the illusion of form, brush techniques, and the logical steps one should take when creating a still life, landscape, or portrait painting.
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Oil Painting Techniques and Materials
Discusses important elements in drawing and painting (tone, form, and value) and other issues such as composition, color, and design.
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Charles Reid's Watercolor Solutions: Learn To Solve The Most Common Painting Problems
Charles Reid has a unique and delightful style that shows off watercolor at its best. He covers all the basics and provides thoughtful instruction for figurative and landscape subjects, but most of all he inspires us with his beautifully unfettered paintings!
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Painting Glowing Colors in Watercolor
Demonstrations of underpainting and overpainting, lighting effects, water reflections, and subtle shadow colorations.
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Problem Solving for Oil Painters
This book goes much further than mere step-by-step demonstrations. Gregg Kreutz teaches very complex concepts, but in a very accessible way. He discusses composition, lighting, unifying color, the colors found in shadows, etc.
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Color Choices
Learn to use color in striking and unusual ways. Quiller explains the how and why of color theories and provides inspiration with his own colorful works of art.
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Fill Your Oil Paintings With Light & Color
An invaluable guide from one of the nation's leading plein air artists. Whether you're interested in still lifes or landscape subjects, Kevin Macpherson's book teaches you how to see color, light and shadow and how to simply shapes for a stronger painting.
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Exploring Watercolor: Creative Exercises and Techniques for Watercolor and Mixed Media
Are your paintings stiff? Do they lack vibrancy or character? Elizabeth will help you paint with a new perspective and infuse your work with greater expression and vitality.
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Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines: A Positive Approach to Negative Painting
Learn how to incorporate negative space into your watercolor paintings to create more compelling images.
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The Watercolor Book: Materials and Techniques for Today's Artists
A comprehensive look at materials, theory, technique, and the principles of design.
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Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Color & Light in Oil, Pastel and Watercolor
Easy-to-follow principles for painting a variety of skin tones in three major mediums--oil, pastel and watercolor; many colors charts and demos.
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Acrylic Landscape Painting Techniques
Dozens of step-by-step demonstrations and a gallery of breathtaking landscapes.
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Painting from the Inside Out...
19 projects and exercises for loosening up, improvising paintings, and combining media.
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The Dance of Watercolor: Beginners and Beyond (DVD)
Nothing beats being able to actually watch a demonstration to truly grasp and understand the concepts of working with watercolor.
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Painting the Impressionist Landscape
Learn about the impressionist palette and color mixing; understand the effects of light and how to produce them.
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Celebrate Your Creative Self : Over 25 Exercises to Unleash the Artist Within
Playfully explore various aspects of visual art, such as light, color, texture and design through a series of imaginative art projects.
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Creative Composition & Design
Demonstrations and illustrated techniques to help you learn composition and design theory. See how artists, working in a variety of media and styles, use the elements of line, shape, space, form, color, value, and texture to create eye-catching works of art.
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All About Techniques in Oil
Advice on use of brushes, knives, etc. Guides you step-by-step thru the creation of landscapes, still-lifes, portraits, and more.
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Watercolor (Magazine)
Created by the painting experts of American Artist, Watercolor, is filled with contemporary art and step-by-step demonstrations. You'll read articles about watermedia painters, their methods, materials, thoughts and inspirations.
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American Artist (Magazine)
This magazine focuses on the ideas and inspiration for practicing artists particularly interested in Realistic styles. Its features include profile articles and step-by-step demonstrations. The magazine contains a balanced coverage of oil painting, watercolor, acrylics, drawing, sculpture and printmaking.
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The Artist's Magazine (Magazine)
You will find articles that cover many techniques and media, as well as guidelines on the business side of art. The approach is instructional, based on step-by-step presentations that show as well as tell. There is practical, technical advice about tools, materials and techniques.
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International Artist (Magazine)
Each 164 page bi-monthly issue of International Artist magazine takes you inside the studios of the world's best artists. They tell you the thought processes behind their creative methods and reveal their painting techniques. For beginners, intermediate & professionals as well.
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Making Art Safely: Alternative Methods and Materials in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Graphic Design, and Photography
Art materials and techniques don't have to be hazardous to your health or compromise your safety. Learn about nontoxic materials and safer art-making practices.
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