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AcrylicWorks: The Best of Acrylic Painting: Ideas and Techniques for Today's Artists by Editors of North Light Books
Category: Art Instructional
A tribute to the expressiveness of today's artists and the incredible versatility of the medium, AcrylicWorks features 126 contemporary masterpieces. This stunning collection covers a wide range of styles and subjects from intimate portraits and ultra-realistic wildlife paintings to sweeping landscapes ...Show more
Colored Pencil Techniques - Glass DVD by Janie Gildow; North Light Books Staff (As told to)
Category: Art SPECIALS
Capture the look of real glass as you follow Janie's coloured pencil tips and demos of a variety of clear and coloured glass objects. Along the way you'll learn lessons on reflection and distortion, as well as layering, transparency, values, application and more for success with coloured pencil! Easy te ...Show more
Colored Pencil Techniques Made Easy DVD by Janie Gildow; North Light Books Staff (As told to)
Category: Art SPECIALS
Janie helps you jump right in and achieve success with coloured pencils! Start with a review of tools and materials-follow Janie's coloured pencil application techniques and exercises to get to know your pencils. A final step-by-step demo helps tie learnings together as Janie completes a drawing of an a ...Show more
Creative Crafts You Can Do in a Day: Over 75 Step-by-Step Projects by North Light Books
Category: Warehouse Pallet Stock
Helps readers create jewelry, home decor, and gifts for any occasion. This guide includes over 75 projects with step-by-step instructions, and advice. It teaches how to: combine elements of papercraft, collage and rubber stamping to create beautiful greeting cards; create elegant keepsakes and gifts; ma ...Show more
Drawing Secrets - Realistic Faces DVD by Carrie Stuart Parks; North Light Books Staff (As told to)
Category: Art and Design
Carrie will show you how to draw a realistic face step-by-step as she guides you through several demonstrations of a variety of facial features.After learning how to measure and draw accurate proportions, chapters are broken down into individual features (eyes, nose, mouth, head shapes). You'll finish u ...Show more
Expressive Oil Painting with George Allen Durkee - A Basic Approach DVD by George Allen Durkee; North Light Books Staff (As told to)
Category: Art and Design | Series: ArtistNetworkTV Ser.
Follow along and paint a landscape in oil from start to finish. Learn about perspective, values, portraying mood and more. George shows you the process of painting from life as well as techniques to capture your unique vision to make your paintings more expressive and engaging.
How to Draw Heads and Faces DVD by Christopher Hart; North Light Books Staff (As told to)
Category: Art SPECIALS | Series: Chris Hart Art School Ser.
Follow Chris Hart's easy step-by-step lessons on how to draw convincing heads and faces. After a review of art supplies and the best pencils to use, Chris shares his drawing tips for creating facial features, hair, heads in various views (profile, ¾-view and front), and more for accurate, exciting drawi ...Show more
How to Draw People DVD by Christopher Hart; North Light Books Staff (As told to)
Category: Art SPECIALS | Series: Chris Hart Art School Ser.
Follow Chris Hart's easy step-by-step lessons on how to draw the figure. After a review of art supplies and the best pencils to use, Chris shares his most important drawing tips for creating realistic people--how to draw muscle structure, how to adjust for different angles and poses, and how to achieve ...Show more
How to Paint Skin Tones in Oil DVD by Chris Saper; North Light Books Staff (As told to)
Category: Art and Design | Series: ArtistNetworkTV Ser.
In this workshop, you will learn how to create a wide variety of skin tones for realistic, expressive portrait paintings. Using six models in the studio, Chris helps you create color recipes for each skin tone in oil, showing, step by step, how to mix a wide range of colors in both light and shadow, so ...Show more
Improve Your Water Painting Techniques in Watercolor DVD by Gordon Mackenzie; North Light Books Staff (As told to)
Category: Art SPECIALS
Learn how to paint water in watercolors with expert painter, Gordon Mackenzie is this instructional and fun video lesson. In Improve Your Water Painting Techniques in Watercolor you'll discover water painting techniques that add realism and movement to your watercolor compositions. This series of three ...Show more
Landscapes by North Light Books Editors
Category: Art and Design | Series: Painter's Quick Reference Ser.
The perfect reference for painters!Enliven your landscapes! Inside you'll find more than 40 complete step-by-step demonstrations for capturing a range of challenging landscape elements, including clouds, skies, trees, foliage, water, reflections, rocks, mountains and much more.These acrylic, watercolor ...Show more