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Paint Mojo - A Mixed-Media Workshop
Creative Layering Techniques for Personal Expression
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Claim the beauty of your unique, authentic expression.
Break free of your comfort zone, sharpen your senses to perceive the world around you and find happiness in play. On this painterly journey, Tracy Verdugo leads you from self-doubt to self-appreciation by helping you find your voice through...
by Lin Wellford
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1994
This book holds a mountain of fun for rock artists of all ages! With the instructions inside, creating these critters is as easy as picking up a rock!
Anywhere, Anytime Art: Gouache
An artist's guide to painting with gouache on the go!
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Take a fresh look at an up-and-coming art medium with Anywhere, Anytime Art: Gouache!
Gouache paint has a long history, but it’s often associated with watercolor and multimedia art. Until now, that is! Trendy artists with large social-media followings are reinvigorating gouache, making this...
Space and Time in Artistic Practice and Aesthetics
The Legacy of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
When the Enlightenment thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote his treatise Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry in 1766, he outlined the strengths and weaknesses of each art. Painting was assigned to the realm of space; poetry to the realm of time. Space and Time in Artistic Practice...
by Jessica Findley
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Camille Corot was a French landscape painter and the leading artist of the Barbizon school. Corot is a key figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism. Corot often credited as a precursor...
Paint A 'Licious: The Pain-Free Way to Achieving Your Naked Ambitions
The Pain-Free Way to Achieving Your Naked Ambitions
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Welcome to the Paint A'Licious Salon where dreams and fantasies come true with the simplicity of a brushstroke. Nothing is as it seems when renowned artist and photographer Joanne Gair embellishes, conceals, and camouflages her human subjects with paint. We're all familiar with trompe l'oeil painting,...
Beginner's Guide to Abstract Art
Making abstract art in watercolour, acrylics, mixed media and collage
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
The Beginner's Guide to Abstract Art is an inspirational but practical book that will help artists to paint in a less figurative way. Laura Reiter demonstrates different ways to approach an abstract painting from 'just a little bit abstract' to 'completely abstract'. She does this by focussing on...
AcrylicWorks 4
Captivating Color
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
The best acrylic artists competition showcase!
Color has the power to demand attention, quicken the heart and transport us to another place and time. The virtuosos featured in AcrylicWorks 4 have successfully employed acrylic paint to capture and use that power to magnificent effect.
This...
by Jessica Findley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
For his phenomenal energy in painting Tintoretto was termed Il Furioso. His work is characterized by its muscular figures, dramatic gestures, and bold use of perspective in the Mannerist style, while maintaining color and light typical of the Venetian School. His nickname derives from his father's profession...
Acrylicworks 2
Radical Breakthroughs
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
"Acrylics allow me to be fearless." --Rhonda Franks, p88
A showcase of the versatility of the medium and what's being done with it today, AcrylicWorks 2 features stunning paintings from 100+ of today's top artists. Filled with radical techniques, happy accidents and endless possibilities,...
by Martin Ursell
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Artists use sketchbooks for a myriad of purposes - to capture a moment, to develop an idea, to record a scene... This book advises on how to enjoy keeping a sketchbook and how to make the most of their use. With practical examples throughout, it is a beautiful and valuable guide that will inspire...
by Peter Inglis
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
How good a painter are you? This book will guide you through the process of painting Claude Monet's "Boats at Argenteuil". Your painting won't look exactly like this one. That doesn't matter! It will most likely look better. My method of teaching enables you to express your own taste...
On Sight-Size Portraiture
4th Edition - Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
In this fully revised and expanded book, Nicholas Beer examines the sight-size portrait method, in which the artist stands back at a distance to view the picture and sitter side-by-side and to scale. Nick demonstrates the technique in a series of projects that culminate in portrait painting. There...
Giancarlo Pignataro
pittore scultore
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Giancarlo Pignataro nato nel 1958 ad Albanella, vicino Paestum, in prov. di Salerno si è formato a Roma dove si diploma al Liceo Artistico. Studia all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma e di Perugia. Da giovanissimo ha ricevuto l’apprezzamento e la spinta a continuare il proprio lavoro da vari artisti...