North Books imprint: 926 books
by Jerry Yarnell
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Let Jerry teach you how to Master Landscapes
You can master landscape painting with the help of popular painter Jerry Yarnell. In Landscape Painting Secrets, Jerry explores the different areas of landscape painting that often create problems for beginning and intermediate artists. All of the major...
Surface Treatment Workshop
Explore 45 Mixed-Media Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Breaking the Surface
Pondering how to begin a new piece of art? Surface Treatment Workshop has the answer! The authors of Image Transfer Workshop are back to show you 45 stepped-out mixed-media techniques that will add depth and texture to your artwork. These techniques are the perfect jump-off point...
Acrylic Innovation
Styles and Techniques Featuring 84 Visionary Artists
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Acrylic is often used as a substitute for oil paint or watercolor, but the real gold mine is in allowing the medium freedom to do what it does best. This book shows how today’s artists are doing exactly that. It’s loaded with original artwork and valuable insight from 64 artists, incredibly diverse...
The Ultimate Guide To Colored Pencil
Over 40 step-by-step demonstrations for both traditional and watercolor pencils
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
With this easy-to-use handbook, best-selling author Gary Greene provides you with instant access to his best tips, tricks and techniques for creating exceptionally realistic colored pencil artwork. Whether you're new to colored pencils or perfecting advanced techniques, you'll find the answers you...
Archisketcher
Drawing Buildings, Cities and Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
"For urban sketchers...each new city is a clean white page."
There is nothing quite like the thrill of heading out on the town, sketchbook in hand, in search of a view worth capturing. Archisketcher will help you embrace the excitement of sketching on location while overcoming common...
Photo Craft
Creative Mixed Media and Digital Approaches to Transforming Your Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Digital Photography and Mixed Media--a creative match made in heaven!
Love photography? Want to make yours better? Want to use your photography as a springboard for fabulous and diverse mixed media and digital projects?
Photo Craft will help you elevate the average into the extraordinary! Using...
by Lee Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2009
Enjoy the scenery with fast and fun landscape painting!
A summer sunset, a bubbling brook, a sea of golden wildflowers like nature itself, landscape painting doesn't have to be complicated to be beautiful. In this beginner-friendly guide, Lee Hammond shows you how to use a handful of colors,...
by Sherry C. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Paint a World of Beautiful Butterflies
Delicate, majestic and diverse, the butterfly is an eternal source of inspiration and wonder. Now you can learn to capture the radiant beauty and delicate details of the world's most spectacular butterfly species in glowing oil paintings. Renowned artist...
by Sherry Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1998
Trade in your bird watching binoculars for a brush!
Sherry C. Nelson, MDA, invites you to paint your favorite American garden birds.
In this book, 11 different oil painting projects show you how to create Bluebirds, Cardinals, Goldfinches, Hummingbirds and other stunning birds in their natural...
by Cathy Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
This new book in the bestselling No Experience Required series includes 6 step-by-step demonstrations and 10 exercises to show you how to depict a variety of animals in a full range of mediums. Perfect for beginners, the exercises in this easy-to-follow guide are designed to yield immediate improvement...
Painting Wildlife Step by Step
Learn from 50 demonstrations how to capture realistic textures in watercolor, oil and acrylic
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Easy-to-follow, step-by-step demonstrations in acrylic, watercolor and oil
Inside, you'll learn how to create realistic wildlife paintings, step by step, mastering dozens of specific wildlife textures, including:
Fur of a bobcat, American bison, snow leopard cub and wolf
Feathers of a...
Wildlife Landscapes You Can Paint
10 Acrylic Projects Using Just 5 Colors
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
Capture the beauty and serenity of animals in nature
If you love nature and life's simpler things, you'll love painting with Wilson Bickford. In this book, with a teaching style as easy and inviting as his paintings, Wilson guides you step by step through ten charming wildlife scenes on canvas.
Projects...
Mural Magic
Painting Scenes on Furniture and Walls
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Mural makeovers for spaces that will make you smile
Murals transform an ordinary room into a room with a view. In this book, artist Corie Kline shows you how to take it one step further by incorporating furniture into your mural painting. Designs flow from wall to furniture, injecting the room...
Destination Creativity
The Life-Altering Journey of the Art Retreat
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Experience art retreats without leaving your home!
There’s a community of passionate, creative souls looking to connect, and the art retreat is where is happens. In Destination Creativity, Ricë Freeman-Zachery brings the life-altering journey of the art retreat from venues all across the...