North Books imprint: 926 books
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...
Watercolor 365
Daily Tips, Tricks and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
A year's worth of tips, techniques, advice and more!
Make watercolor a part of your daily life, turning every day into inspiration for your art. Designed to fit your life, Watercolor 365--the first watercolor book of its kind--provides a complete education in the medium, one bite-sized bit...
The Mixed-Media Artist
Art Tips, Tricks, Secrets and Dreams from Over 40 Amazing Artists
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Mixed media or mystery?
There's a secret to understanding the mystery behind the hidden message in a work of mixed-media art. As Seth Apter knows, if you can get to know the artist, you will get to know the art. The Mixed Media Artist unlocks this mystery and provides an intimate look into the hearts,...
by Claudia Nice
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Draw & Paint Realistic Trees in All Four Seaons
Bestselling author and naturalist Claudia Nice is back with another studio essential for every landscape artist. Drawing & Painting Trees in the Landscape features Claudia's best tips and techniques for painting trees of all kinds in their natural...
Inside The Art Studio
A Guided Tour of 37 Artists' Creative Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Take a tour of artists' studios!
Whether you're looking to upgrade your own studio or just love peeking into the workplaces of successful artists, you'll find ideas and inspiration Inside the Art Studio.
Culled from American Artist's popular Studios series, Inside the Art Studio takes...
by Lee Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Lee Hammond helps you get your acrylic paintings past that initial “awkward stage” with great tips and tricks for achieving realistic results.
by Joe Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Learn great lessons about how you can incorporate great design elements into your composition, including five easy formulas that will ensure a strong image every single time. But don't let your great design be ruined by muddy colors! These lessons go beyond color wheel instruction to teach how to...
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...
Start Sketching & Drawing Now
Simple techniques for drawing landscapes, people and objects
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
A complete course for the can't-wait-to-get-started beginner!
Got the urge to draw? What are you waiting for?! Getting started is as easy as 1-2-3 with Grant Fuller's Start Sketching & Drawing Now! Packed full of easy and fun techniques, readers will learn to create accurate and expressive likenesses...
by Joe Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Take your watercolor paintings to the next level with these great techniques. Build a foundation with basic techniues like using wet-into-wet washes and glazing and layering before moving right along to using blooms, backruns, salt and wax to create great effects. Not only will you create gorgeous paintings, but you'll have fun doing them.
Creating Radiant Flowers in Colored Pencil
64 step-by-step demos / 54 kinds of flowers
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Master the Secret of Creating Spectacular Flowers in Colored Pencil
When it comes to choosing a subject, flowers are a perennial favorite for artists because of their exciting variety and complexity of color, texture and details. It's amazing, then, that their vibrant natures can be captured so realistically...
by Bernard Poulin
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Embark on an Adventure with Colored Pencils! A versatile and vibrant medium, colored pencils are capable of producing art of a serious, and seriously exciting nature. The Complete Colored Pencil Book will guide you through your first strokes and beyond. • Basic and advanced techniques for creating...
Lee Hammond's Big Book of Acrylic Painting
Fast, easy techniques for painting your favorite subjects
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Basic Acrylic Instruction-Amazing Results!
This resource is packed with the best of Lee Hammond's lessons and tips on working with acrylics, including more than 80 step-by-step exercises and demonstrations that will have you creating amazing paintings in no time flat.
Success is easy-just follow...
The Big Book of Realistic Drawing Secrets
Easy Techniques for drawing people, animals, flowers and nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
This is the book that can teach anyone to draw (yes, even you!)
If you're not getting the kind of true-to-life results you want in your drawings (or if you can't even draw a straight line), Carrie and Rick Parks can help. As award-winning teachers, they have a proven game plan for helping artists...