Classical Painting Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice
by Juliette Aristides
from Watson-Guptill
Acrylic Revolution: New Tricks & Techniques for Working With the World's Most Versatile Medium
by Nancy Reyner
from North Light Books
Liberate Your Creativity With Acrylic Paints!
Acrylic Revolution is your essential, all-in-one guide for acrylic painting techniques and more. It features over 101 ways to break through the boundaries of conventional painting and re-define the creative potential of this all-purpose medium.
Every page provides insight on how to use acrylic paint in ways you never thought possible to create stunning visual effects and textures. Ten complete sections detail a range of empowering applications, including how to:
- Prepare and paint on virtually any surface
- Create textures of all kinds
- Work with transfers, collage, resists and mixed media
- Achieve innovative stenciling and line work
- Customize your paint to adjust thickness, transparency and drying time
- Simulate other mediums, such as oil, tempera or watercolor
- Create faux finishes, magical effects, sheens and more
Pick up a brush and start your own acrylic revolution today!
Use the techniques in this book to free your creative spirit and create the paintings you've always dreamed of.
Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists
by Mark Simon
from Watson-Guptill
All artists are tired of persuading their nearest and dearest to look sad…look glad…look mad…madder…no, even madder…okay, hold it. For those artists (and their long-suffering friends), here is the best book ever. Facial Expressions includes more than 2,500 photographs of 50 faces—men and women of a variety of ages, shapes, sizes, and ethnicities—each demonstrating a wide range of emotions and shown from multiple angles. Who can use this book? Oh, only every artist on the planet, including art students, illustrators, fine artists, animators, storyboarders, and comic book artists. But wait, there's more! Additional photos focus on people wearing hats and couples kissing, while illustrations show skull anatomy and facial musculature. Still not enough? How about a one-of-a-kind series of photos of lips pronouncing the phonemes used in human speech? Animators will swoon—and artists will show a range of facial expressions from happy to happiest to ecstatic.
Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light (Art Institute of Chicago)
by Martha Tedeschi
from Art Institute of Chicago
Landscape Painting Inside and Out: Capture the Vitality of Outdoor Painting in Your Studio With Oils
by Kevin D. Macpherson
from North Light Books
Offers down-to-earth advice on painting gorgeous outdoors scenes through 10 step-by-step demos Teaches painters how to master the art of observation Shows readers how to translate field notes and sketches into fully realized studio paintings The overwhelming beauty of the outdoors is one of the most inspiring - and elusive - subjects for painters. With Landscape Painting Inside and Out, Kevin Macphearson first shows readers how to see like an artist, then teaches them how to recreate their vision into stunningly realistic outdoors scenes. His insightful process encourages readers to focus on the small details to achieve big results.
The Painted Quilt: Paint and Print Techniques for Color on Quilts
by Linda Kemshall
from David & Charles
The only book on the market that deals with the application of color to the quilted surface--a technique that creates completely unique effects.
Dyeing, fabric painting and print techniques are an important part of the increasingly popular City & Guilds textile courses.
Painted Quilt demystifies the process of coloring cloth using a variety of techniques including fabric paints, pastels, dyes, bleaches and transfers. The book combines simple techniques to produce complex textile surfaces, and describes exactly how these effects are achieved with easy-to-understand step-by-step photographs and instructions. Many people have competent sewing skills but lack the confidence to create their own designs--this book will help them to explore their own creative potential to achieve effective and original designs.
The BetterPhoto Guide to Digital Nature Photography (Better Photo Guide to)
by Jim Miotke
from Amphoto Books
* Step-by-step lessons cover every aspect of digital nature photography
* Clear text and helpful photos demystify digital photography
* Miotke has taught hundreds of photo workshops
From the tiniest ladybug to a towering glacier, from a horse running in a field to a leaf falling slowly from a tree, nature subjects offer some of the greatest challenges and the greatest rewards to photographers. In the Better Photo tradition, here's a complete photo course in a book. Hands-on lessons cover every aspect of digital nature photography, from buying the right camera for close-ups, landscapes, and movement, to understanding how the camera works, to taking great pictures. Author Jim Miotke uses straightforward text and inspiring yet informative photos to show the best ways to approach nature photography. Everything a beginner or intermediate photographer needs to know is here, including a buyer's guide, full information on camera features, file formats and settings, exposure, low-light photography, filters and white balance, composition and lens choice, creative ideas, manipulating, and printing, along with a glossary and list of useful websites. The Better Photo Guide to Digital Nature Photography helps photographers everywhere get great photos in the great outdoors.
How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself: Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects
by Nita Engle
from Watson-Guptill
Gil Elvgren: All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups (Taschen 25th Anniversary Special Editions)
by Charles G Martignette
from Taschen
Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in theform of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique-which earned him a reputation as "The Norman Rockwell of cheesecake"-involved photographing models and then painting them into gorgeous hyper-reality, with longer legs, more flamboyant hair and gravity-defying busts, and in the process making them the perfect moral-boosting eye-candy for every homesick private.
Watercolor in Motion: How to Create Powerful Paintings, Step by Step (Book & DVD)
by Birgit Oconnor
from North Light Books
Painting wet-into-wet is one of the most popular yet challenging ways to paint with watercolor.
There is no other book that contains this type and quality of instruction in print and DVD/video.
Features a 50-minute DVD that allows readers to actually see how to manipulate paint and water.
Watercolor in Motion not only provides dynamic step-by-step photos of watercolor painting, it also points readers to specific tracks on the accompanying 50-minute DVD that will show them the techniques they need to successfully paint wet-into-wet. The book covers color and design, value, shapes and shadows. Readers will find step-by-step demonstrations of many different flowers and still life subjects as well as 18 mini-demos teaching the techniques needed to be a successful painter. Throughout the mini-demos readers will find cross-references to the DVD showing how to correctly hold the brush and apply paint using the popular wet-into-wet technique.
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Madhubani painting, 'Celebrating Affection'
In the center of this stunning painting, two birds share a single head as a symbol of unity and oneness in love. Radiating outward in concentric circles, people, elephants, fish and birds come together in pairs. Dileep Kumar creates a dynamic painting in the ancient Madhubani style, using natural colors on handmade paper. As each painting is an individual creation, each is unique. Colors and motifs may vary slightly from that pictured.
Madhubani painting, 'Man with Fish'
An exquisite symmetry suggests the harmony of all creation in this beautiful painting by Dileep Kumar. Resting in the branches of an immense green tree, circles host colorful men standing shoulder to shoulder. In the center, fish gather nose to nose. The work is a traditional Madhubani painting, drawn freehand on handmade paper. As each painting is an individual creation, each is unique. Colors and motifs may vary slightly from that pictured.
Klutz Face Painting face painting activity book
A fully photographic how-to feast on kids' face painting. The waterbased face paints come from Kryolan, manufacturers of the most-respected theatrical makeup in the world. 63 pages. Full color.
Madhubani painting, 'The Sun God'
The sun disk dominates this quiet forest bringing warmth and color. The figure represents the Indian deity Surya, god of the sun; his father is the sky god and his wife is Chaya, goddess of dawn. Dileep Kumar creates a handsome painting in the ancient Madhubani style, using natural colors on handmade paper. As each painting is an individual creation, each is unique. Colors and motifs may vary slightly from that pictured.
Madhubani painting, 'Tree of Life'
Sheltered in the mighty branches of the tree of life, two traditional deities are a brilliant presence. To the right, the sun god appears in brilliant orange while the moon goddess to the left is a lovely young woman. This traditional Madhubani painting by Dileep Kumar is drawn freehand on handmade paper. As each painting is an individual creation, each is unique. Colors and motifs may vary slightly from that pictured.
Warli painting, 'The Marriage'
A bright sun shines on the marriage procession as villagers escort a beautiful bride. A festive atmosphere energizes the composition. From Suman Sonthalia and Aakriti Arts Creations, this Warli painting offers a fascinating view of Maharastra's ancestral customs. Painted with natural dyes on handmade paper with a card paper mat. The painting is framed in mango wood and features a protective glass pane.
Patachitra painting, 'Sailing II'
In a scene from the romantic past, four young ladies take a boat ride down a blue river where lotus blooms. The boatman sings as he expertly steers the luxurious craft. Brajeswar Pattnaik depicts her in a traditional patachitra or pata chitra painting using crushed stone colors on tussar silk.
Miniature painting, 'Royal Procession'
The king sets out toward the countryside in an elaborate royal procession. He sits atop an elephant while a pet leopard rides in an oxcart. Accompanied by members of the court, they are a regal sight. Kailash Chand depicts a scene from Mughal India in this colorful miniature painting. The name refers not to the size but to the intricate details in the work.
Miniature painting, 'Charge the Enemy'
Advancing at night, warriors move toward enemy lines. Kailash Chand depicts brave fighting men from India's glorious Mughal period. The young men are dressed in colorful silks and carry ornate shields, for they represent the king himself. This painting is wonderfully detailed, a characteristic of the genre.
Madhubani painting, 'Fish Lovers'
Golden fish undulate in green waters, each one depicted in a sensuous Madhubani painting by Bharti Dayal. Their bodies form a circle together, suggesting an infinite love. Bright jewel-like colors and a na?f style define the work. It is executed in vegetable dye on handmade paper in the traditional Mithila style of northern Bihar.
