Art Technique category: 4706 books
The Two-Pencil Method
The Revolutionary Approach to Drawing It All
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
From the best-selling artist and YouTube art instructor, this book features step-by-step lessons that show you how to draw professional-quality portraits, landscapes, travel sketches, and animals using only two ordinary pencils.
Great art doesn't have to be expensive. For the cost of a regular...
Glitch Art in Theory and Practice
Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics explores the concept of "glitch" alongside contemporary digital political economy to develop a general theory of critical media using glitch as a case study and model, focusing specifically on examples of digital...
Acrylic Painting for Encaustic Effects
45 Wax Free Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Explore encaustic painting without wax!
Discover 45 innovative ways to use acrylic paints, mediums and a variety of mixed-media art supplies to achieve the look of encaustic without the wax or the heat usually required. Compose and create intriguing works of art with fun techniques that include...
The Work of Art
Plein Air Painting and Artistic Identity in Nineteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In The Work of Art, Anthea Callen analyzes the self-portraits, portraits of fellow artists, photographs, prints, and studio images of prominent nineteenth-century French Impressionist painters, exploring the emergence of modern artistic identity and its relation to the idea of creative work. Landscape...
Cool Nail Art
30 Step-by-Step Designs to Rock Your Fingers and Toes
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Creative nails are the best accessory!
Hannah Lee, creator of the popular YouTube Channel Hannah Rox Nails, shares more than thirty new nail designs in Cool Nail Art. With tips on how to prep your manicure, clear step-by-step instructions and easy-to-use tools, you can create fabulous nail...
About Sketching
The Art and Practice of Capturing the Moment
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Written as a sketching artist's companion, this guide by a noted author of art instruction manuals attests to the value of sketching as a distinct art form rather than merely a vehicle to achieve more polished works. Artist and author Jasper Salwey details advantages of many drawing media, from pencil...
Art Journey America Landscapes
89 Painters' Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Showcasing the work of more than 100 top contemporary American master artists of our day, this book features landscapes (a popular subject for art collectors and a tradition throughout American art history) from all across the country-east and west, north and south-rendered in watercolor, oil, acrylic,...
by Charles Bayet
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
For more than a millennium, from its creation in 330 CE until its fall in 1453, the Byzantine Empire was a cradle of artistic effervescence that is only beginning to be rediscovered. Endowed with the rich heritage of Roman, Eastern, and Christian cultures, Byzantine artists developed an architectural...
Mixed Mania
Recipes for Delicious Mixed Media Creations
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Frequent Cloth Paper Scissors contributors Debbi Crane and Cheryl Prater have whipped up this book featuring 20-plus smart and sassy projects divided like a cookbook into appetizers, main courses, and sweet treats for a fresh perspective on creating mixed-media projects. From artist books to assemblage,...
Messerschmidt's Character Heads
Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This book examines a famous series of sculptures by the German artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) known as his "Character Heads." These are busts of human heads, highly unconventional for their time, representing strange, often inexplicable facial expressions. Scholars have struggled...
Art Quilt Collage
A Creative Journey in Fabric, Paint & Stitch
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Make treasured art quilts from bits of cloth, stitched motifs, and painted details. This visual, step-by-step guide to art quilting shares techniques, checklists, and work-along projects using 8 design guides.
by Alon Bement
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Well-crafted and class-tested, this guide to figure drawing features a unique teaching method. It focuses on learning to draw complete figures prior to the study of individual components, and it stresses action figures rather than the customary static examples favored by most drawing and anatomy texts....
Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition
Curatorial Design for the Multimedial Museum
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Digital technologies are playing an increasingly instrumental role in guiding the curatorial and institutional strategies of contemporary art museums today. Designed around contextual studies of virtuality and the art of exhibition, this interdisciplinary volume applies practice-based research to...
by Mayton Clarence Hillick
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
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In may of its elementary principles the art of carriage and wagon painting as at present exemplified does not materially differ from the art as it was interpreted in the remote past. Processes and systems have changed and adapted themselves to the swifter modes of life,...