Painting category: 1000 books
Oil Painting For The Absolute Beginner
A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Oil Painting
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
The quick-start guide to great results!
Oil painting doesn't have to be rocket science, although some books on the subject make it seem that way. Filled with encouraging, easy-to-follow instruction, Oil Painting for the Absolute Beginner is a no-fear, no-experience-required guide to enjoyable painting...
The Art and Technique of Sumi-e Japanese Ink Painting
Japanese Ink Painting as Taught by Ukao Uchiyama
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Explore the ancient technique of Japanese ink painting.
The art of sumi-e, which means "ink picture," combines calligraphy and ink-painting to produce brush painting compositions of rare beauty. This beauty is paradoxical—ancient but modern, simple but sophisticated, bold but subdued—no...
Landscape Painting Essentials with Johannes Vloothuis
Lessons in Acrylic, Oil, Pastel and Watercolor
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Secrets to Painting Beautiful Landscapes
Painting the landscape can be fun and rewarding--if you make the right decisions as you paint. After all, it is the artist's greatest challenge to somehow capture a sense of it all--the grandness, the majesty, the splendor of nature--with just a few...
The Joy of Acrylic Painting
Expressive Painting Techniques for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Now is the time to pursue creative fulfillment!
Annie O'Brien Gonzales felt a passion for art from an early age. But not until 30 years later--after raising a family and working "a real job"--did she get serious about painting. Along the way, she experienced the pleasures and the...
Still Life Painting Atelier
An Introduction to Oil Painting
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
The equivalent of a foundation course in traditional oil painting for beginning to intermediate level artists, this in-depth book uses the still life as a practical way to master oil techniques. The still life is a practical, forgiving genre as it does not require the likeness of a portrait or the...
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 Jermaine L. Kellogg
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
All The Right Ingredients You Need To Create Abstract Painting, Body Painting, Face Painting for Beginners, Watercolor Paintings, Nature Paintings, Painting Kitchen Cabinets and Oil Painting
Intuitive Painting Workshop
Techniques, Prompts and Inspiration for a Year of Painting
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
A Year of Painting Intuitively!
Stay inspired to create art throughout every season! In Intuitive Painting Workshop, you'll find a timely expressive exercise for each month, along with seasonal check-ins. In discovering how to paint intuitively, you will learn to surrender to your true visual...
Expressive Flower Painting
Simple Mixed Media Techniques for Bold Beautiful Blooms
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
**Get nose to bloom with one of the most beloved subjects of painters for generations of artists with Expressive Flower Painting and master pedals, stems, colors, and more.
It's almost always one of the first things someone tries to paint--center, petals, stem, voila! Expressive Flower Painting's exercises...
Landscape Painting
Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Because nature is so expansive and complex, so varied in its range of light, landscape painters often have to look further and more deeply to find form and structure, value patterns, and an organized arrangement of shapes. In Landscape Painting, Mitchell Albala shares his concepts and practices for...
Lessons in Classical Painting
Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
A companion volume to Lessons in Classical Drawing and an atelier in book form, Lessons in Classical Painting breaks down the foundational skills and techniques of painting in a format that is accessible and manageable for all readers.
With the same direct, easy-to-follow approach of Juliette...
by Julian Bell
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Julian Bell’s incisive, fully updated study of modern art and the nature of painting, which daringly tries to explain it
“Yes, but is it art?” This lucid book by Julian Bell, himself a painter, confronts the uncertainty many people feel about art today and challenges generally accepted...
Oil Painting Essentials
Mastering Portraits, Figures, Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Interiors
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
An essential guide to the oil painting techniques that will allow artists to master a variety of subjects, including figures, portraits, still life, landscapes, and interiors.
Many painters limit themselves to one type of subject matter, but in Oil Painting Essentials, artist and art instructor...
by Lee Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2006
Instruction for Beginners - Results Like a Pro!
You can learn to paint with skill and confidence. Lee Hammond makes painting with acrylics accessible and fun with sound guidance, practical tips and encouraging advice.
As Lee explains, the magic of acrylic painting is in the layers. Painting...