Art Technique category: 4706 books
by Margarita Esters
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Mary Cassatt was an American impressionist painter who depicted the lives of women, chiefly the intimate bond between mother and child. Degas and Pissarro would later become her mentors and fellow painters. She began studying art seriously at the age of 15, at a time when only around twenty percent of...
by Rachel Shirley
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
A step by step art book that explores the garden as a source of inspiration.
A typical haven yields more than one may first expect, from allotments, deckchairs and swings to pets, hanging baskets and fishponds. The only other essential ingredient is sunlight.
Taken from my art instruction...
by Rachel Shirley
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
How do I complete my first oil painting step by step?
This book outlines 20 achievable oil painting demonstrations for the beginner featuring landscape art from the simple to the more challenging (taken from my hardback Oil Paintings from the Landscape published by GMC Publications 2003)
Find...
Art Students League of New York on Painting
Lessons and Meditations on Mediums, Styles, and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
**A New York Times Gift Pick: Coffee Table Books About New York
A lushly illustrated, comprehensive guide to painting in all media from the prestigious visual arts education institution Art Students League of New York.**
The Art Students League of New York is America’s signature art...
The Complete Book of Drawing Fantasy Art
How to draw amazing characters and scenes
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This action-packed volume brings together a whole range of fantasy art projects, from the nearly human to the downright monstrous. Steve Beaumont's two successful fantasy art titles, How to Draw Fantasy Art and How to Draw Fantasy Worlds, are brought together into one bumper volume. Projects range from...
by Narim Bender
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Alphonse Maria Mucha was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinctive style. He produced many drawings, paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs. The Mucha Style became known as Art Nouveau ("new art"). Mucha's works frequently featured beautiful...
149 Paintings You Really Need to See in Europe
(So You Can Ignore the Others)
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
"Who can resist an art critic with attitude?"
--Former Supreme Court of Canada Justice, Ian Binnie
"It was wonderful! Julian shared his enormous knowledge of the world's best art with a panache that is irresistible."
--Justice Stephen Goudge, Ontario Court of Appeal
This...
Giorgione, un artiste plein de mystères
La première révolution de la couleur à Venise
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Décryptez l'oeuvre de Giorgione en moins d'une heure de lecture !Maître de Titien, qui sera fortement influencé par son professeur, Giorgione est aujourd'hui moins connu que son élève, mais sa production n'en est pas moins fascinante. C'est en effet lui qui amorce la première révolution de la...
by Klaus Carl H., Joseph Manca, Megan McShane
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
From the cave paintings of Lascaux, to the Madonnas of the Renaissance Italians, from the revolutionary Impressionists to the provocative canvases of the Pop Art movement—30 Millennia of Painting reunites the essential works of pictorial art, spanning the history of art from prehistory to the present....
Sharpie Art Workshop
Techniques and Ideas for Transforming Your World
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Bold and sharp, brilliant and vivid, Sharpie markers can be found in art, office, and stationery supply stores, drugstores, mass-market and crafts chains - almost anywhere writing utensils are sold. Sharpies can be used on virtually any surface, from the traditional (paper and canvas) to the unexpected...
Mixed Media Revolution
Creative Ideas for Reusing Your Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Recycle, Reuse, Reinvent!
With Mixed Media Revolution, you'll learn how to leverage your art and take your paintings and transfers to the next level!
Leftovers, little bits and scraps, pieces of art that didn't turn out quite right...we all have them. And it hurts to have to throw them away....
by Jennifer Margell
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Encaustic painting is one of the world’s most venerable art forms, having been practised consistently around the world since the ancient Egyptians first used it to decorate sarcophagi, and enjoying continuing popularity in the modern era with artists such as Paul Klee and Diego Rivera. In this new...
by Maria Bustillos, Jillian Steinhauer, Alexis Madrigal
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
“Fourteen writers take on perhaps the most important cultural issue of our time: figure out what we’re talking about when we’re talking about cat videos.” —New York magazine
Are cat videos art? This essay collection, funded by a Kickstarter campaign, addresses not just our fascination...
Foundations in Comic Book Art
SCAD Creative Essentials (Fundamental Tools and Techniques for Sequential Artists)
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
A comprehensive guide to creating and developing comic book and graphic novel art, from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), one of the world's leaders in sequential arts instruction.
John Lowe, Dean of the School of Communication Arts at SCAD, presents an in-depth primer on the tools...