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Basic Drawing Techniques by Richard Box
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art Handbooks
Richard Box explores drawing line, tone and colour with numerous step-by-step illustrations and finished drawings. He covers drawing media such as graphite, Pierre Noire, carbon, white, sanguine, sepia and coloured pencils, pastels, conte crayons and charcoal. There is plenty of information on making ma ...Show more
Drawing Landscapes by Ronald Swanwick
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art Handbooks
Ronald Swanwick's aim is to inspire the artist to go out and use a pencil at least as often as a brush. He shares his approach to drawing landscapes - teaching how to observe and soak up the atmosphere of a landscape, and opens the book with sections on composition, perspective and making marks and tone ...Show more
Drawing Trees (PB) by Denis John-Naylor
Category: Art Instructional | Series: Art Handbooks
Denis John-Naylor creates wonderful drawings of trees and their leaves and seeds. Here he describes the techniques he uses, such as shaping the pencil end to make the right mark, building up a pattern of lights and darks, sketching in pencil or ballpoint pen, measuring angles and proportions, impressing ...Show more
Landscapes in Acrylics Art hadbk by David Hyde
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art Handbooks
Renowned artist, David Hyde, provides a clear and practical guide to using acrylics to create beautiful landscape paintings. Using over 70 step-by-step photographs and many inspirational pictures, he shows how to develop all the skills you need to become an accomplished landscape artist. The book inclu ...Show more
Landscapes in Watercolour by Ray Campbell-Smith
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art Handbooks
He explains all his techniques clearly, from the initial planning and composition of a picture, to choosing colours, applying washes and capturing the glorious subtlety and glow of nature. Dry brush work, splayed brushwork and wet-in-wet are all included, with clear and helpful text accompanied by insp ...Show more
Painting with Acrylics by Wendy Jelbert
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art Handbooks
Acrylics are versatile and can be used in many different ways; they also have unique qualities and can be painted on to canvas, paper, wood or board. Using a sequence of inspirational pictures and specially commissioned step-by-step photographs, Wendy Jelbert shows how to use this medium to create pure ...Show more
Painting with Oils by Noel Gregory
Category: Art Instructional | Series: Art Handbooks
Over 80 step-by-step photographs take you through all the basics with helpful demonstrations which clearly illustrate how to paint skies, landscapes, flowers and animals. You will learn about the materials you need, how to start, using a limited palette, using photographs as inspiration, and creating p ...Show more
Painting with Pastels by Peter Coombs
Category: Art Instructional | Series: Art Handbooks
Pastels are fun, versatile and easy to use. Strokes and squiggles of colour can be blended to create beautiful skies, waterscapes and landscapes, and details can be added easily using broad and thin lines. By merging and overlaying colours you can create soft velvety tones, rich textured or subtle effe ...Show more
Painting with Watercolours by William Newton
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art Handbooks
William Newton provides an inspirational and practical guide to painting beautiful watercolours and shows how to capture the exciting qualities of this wonderful medium. Using over 60 step-by-step photographs he illustrates all the basic techniques, explaining how to create transparent washes, luminous ...Show more
Perspective by Ray Campbell-Smith
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art Handbooks
Renowned artist, Ray Campbell Smith has written an excellent introduction to perspective that will be invaluable for all artists. Beginning with basic perspective, he covers the eye level line, vanishing points, basic constructions and shadows. We then progress to elipses, curves and curvilinear objects ...Show more
Water in Watercolour by Joe Francis Dowden
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art Handbooks
Using over 80 step-by-step photographs and a variety of inspirational paintings, he clearly illustrates all the techniques - from laying an initial wash to adding the final details. There is clear information on what materials you need and on composition, using colour and on types of water. There are th ...Show more
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