North Light Books imprint: 463 books
by Claudia Nice
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2003
Expand your artistic horizons with watercolor!
Watercolor is a fun, challenging medium that captures the magic of light and color. Now world-renowned artist and instructor Claudia Nice helps you get started in watercolor today.
In Watercolor Made Simple with Claudia Nice, you'll start...
Oil Painting with the Masters
Essential Techniques from Today's Top Artists
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Master the art of oil painting with instruction on key topics and techniques such as materials, observation, references, forms, composition, color palettes, mixing colors, underpainting, working in layers, light effects, painting on location, textures and more from ten contributors, including beautiful...
Fast Sketching Techniques
Capture the Fundamental Essence of Elusive Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
It can happen at any moment - A powerful light effect. A telling gesture. A unique posture.
When you're struck by am image or impression you want to use in your art, you must record it - quickly! - before it's gone.But what's an artist to do when there's no time for a carefully rendered drawing or...
How to See, How to Draw
Keys to Realistic Drawing
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Imagine having the ability to draw any subject with precision, detail and expression. With Claudia's help, you can do it! In How to See, How to Draw, you will discover how to tap into your powers of observation, strengthen your hand-eye connection, and draw the world around you with new skill and...
Painting with Pastels
Easy Techniques to Master the Medium
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2007
Come enjoy the art of pastel painting with beloved workshop instructor Maggie Price. In this step-by-step guide, she teaches you everything you need to know to make the most of this accessible art form. From selecting the right materials to learning the fundamentals of composition, Maggie starts with...
Imaginary Characters
Mixed-Media Painting Techniques for Figures and Faces
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Believe in magic, trust your intuition and find your individual artistic style!
In this book, you're the storyteller and the artist and you're on a quest to bring the soulful characters, mythical creatures and magical landscapes of your imagination to life through mixed-media art. You'll tap...
Beautiful Portrait Painting in Oils
Keys to Mastering Diverse Skin Tones and More
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
How to paint oil portraits like the Old Masters
Mona Lisa. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Madame X. The infinite variety and beauty of humankind--like the mysteries behind sparkling eyes, a sly smile or an averted gaze--has captivated artists since the beginning of time. This expanded edition of...
Expressive Portraits
Watercolor and Mixed Media Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Paint beautiful and expressive portraits by combining watercolor with other mediums!
What makes an eye-popping, eye-stopping portrait? It's all about contrast and the play of opposites, round shape against square, light against dark, transparent against opaque. Combining mediums allows you to push...
by Pat Dews
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2003
Start every painting the right way - with a composition and design that works!
Good composition and design is the underlying foundation of any successful painting. Let Pat Dews show you what good design really is while detailing the principles that can improve your work with every stroke.
You...
Strokes Of Genius 6
Value - Lights & Darks
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This sixth volume in the celebrated Strokes of Genius series explores the power of value. From the darkest darks to the lightest lights and all the notes in between, value can build works of incredible complexity, or pure and simple poetry. More than any other single element of art, value has the...
by Ann Kullberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1999
Portraits not only capture a likeness, but offer for generations to come a glimpse into the subject's life. Sounds like quite a challenge. But with Ann Kullberg's help, it's not as difficult as you might think to create lifelike colored pencil portraits. Using her own beautiful portraiture for instruction...
by Carrie Stuart Parks
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2002
Draw amazingly accurate portraits starting today!
Even if you're an absolute beginner, you can render strikingly realistic faces and self-portraits! Instructor and FBI-trained artist Carrie Stuart Parks makes it simple with foolproof step-by-step instructions that are fun and easy to follow. You'll...
Inner Excavation
Exploring Your Self Through Photography, Poetry and Mixed Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Express the art within you
There are clues all around you - sounds, textures, memories, passions - just waiting for you to shine a light on them, and unearth the most intimate form of expression - the self-portrait. Inside Inner Excavation, author Liz Lamoreux will be your guide, along with...
by Roger Saddington
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
Shoot your work like a pro!
Whether you're entering your paintings in an art show, compiling your portfolio or simply documenting your art, you need flawless pictures of your work. But how do you get professional slides without buying expensive equipment or paying a photographer?
With...