Art Technique category: 4706 books
Essential Techniques of Landscape Drawing
Master the Concepts and Methods for Observing and Rendering Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
This beginner's guide to drawing in graphite pencil uses step-by-step exercises to teach fundamental methods for rendering all aspects of the natural landscape, with additional lessons on using charcoal, colored pencil, pastel, and other media.
Following in the footsteps of author, artist,...
Daily Painting
Paint Small and Often To Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Artist
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A unique system for jump-starting artistic creativity, encouraging experimentation and growth, and increasing sales for artists of all levels, from novices to professionals.
Have you landed in a frustrating rut? Are you having trouble selling paintings in galleries, getting bogged down by projects...
Randolph Caldecott
A Personal Memoir of His Early Art Career
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS
I.—His early Art Career
II.—Drawing for "London Society"
III.—In London, the Harz Mountains, etc.
IV.—Drawing for "The Daily Graphic"
V.—Drawing for "The Pictorial...
by Mark Willenbrink
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
You won’t be disappointed with the basic instruction based on the popular print book Drawing for the Absolute Beginner (North Light 2006) by Mark and Mary Willenbrink. Learn all you need to know about getting started sketching and drawing including materials, basic techniques and perspective. Also...
Realistic Painting Workshop: Creative Methods for Painting from Life
Creative Methods for Painting from Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This is a unique, how-to art instruction book, taught by masterful artist Dan Carrel. Using Dan's original method of painting, readers with little or no painting experience will easily learn to create realistic renderings of any subject. Through a simple process of layering and learning how to create...
by David Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Doodling has been seen as a mindless pursuit-until now. People are discovering the hidden discipline, order, and joy behind artful scribbles. Idiot's Guide: Zen Doodling gives readers all they need to get started or to continue the practice of using ordered, repeated "tangle" designs to...
Colored Pencil Step by Step
Explore a range of styles and techniques for creating your own works of art in colored pencils
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Colored Pencil Step by Step, from the acclaimed Walter Foster Artist’s Library Series, is filled with information that will help artists of all levels learn all about drawing with colored pencil. This colorful, comprehensive guidebook explores drawing and layering colors, plus a range of styles...
by Narim Bender
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2014
One of the most brilliant and original artists of the eighteenth century, Antoine Watteau had an impact on the development of Rococo art in France and throughout Europe lasting well beyond his lifetime. Living only thirty-six years, and plagued by frequent illness, Watteau nonetheless rose from an obscure...
by Nathalia Brodskaïa
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
“I paint what I see and not what it pleases others to see.” What other words than these of Édouard Manet, seemingly so different from the sentiments of Monet or Renoir, could best define the Impressionist movement? Without a doubt, this singularity was explained when, shortly before his death,...
by Henry M. Piironen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Read them, love them, quote them, the often witty, the often cerebral, and sometimes even hilarious quotes of this book. Find the perpetual diamonds of wisdom and truth, while enjoying the rest.
Stolen Images
Lumumba and the Early Films of Raoul Peck
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Among today’s leading filmmakers, none brings to the screen such a deep awareness of how power is channeled from First to Third World societies, or exhibits such great human sensitivity, as Raoul Peck. Collected here for the first time are Peck’s three early feature and documentary screenplays...
by Arron Adams
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
This study Art Book contains selected and annotated color plates of paintings from James Whistler.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was The American painter, etcher, and lithographer who created a new set of principles for the fine arts, favored "art for art's sake", and introduced a delicate...
by Narim Bender
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
This Art Book with Foreword by Narim Bender contains 55 selected reproductions of drawings and pastels from Eugene-Henri-Paul Gauguin.Paul Gauguin was French painter, sculptor, and print-maker. His style developed from Impressionism through a brief cloisonnist phase towards a highly personal brand...
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
"Rilke's observations are wonderfully astute. For readers interested in either [sculpture or poetry], this volume is a treat." — The Christian Science Monitor
During the early 1900s, the great German poet lived and worked in Paris with Auguste Rodin. In a work as revealing of its author...