North Books imprint: 926 books
Pastel Pointers
Top 100 Secrets for Beautiful Paintings
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
Top Secrets for Beautiful Pastel Paintings
Richard McKinley has been a professional artist for over 35 years. Factor in nearly as many years of teaching experience, and that adds up to a whole lot of know-how to share. In Pastel Pointers, he lays it all out: information on tools, materials, color,...
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...
Art Journal Freedom
How to Journal Creatively With Color & Composition
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Art Journal Color! Art Journal Composition! Art Journal Freedom!
Color is all around us and we often find ourselves drawn to particular combinations or arrangements. But how can you effectively and artistically capture those eye-catching compositions in your art journal?
It's true, art journaling...
The Painterly Approach
An Artist's Guide To Seeing, Painting And Expressing
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Create paintings with feeling
The Painterly Approach bridges the gap between what you see as an artist, and what you feel. More than painting an appealing landscape, it's about making your viewer feel the wind, experience the dance of shadows and sunlight, and admire the wondrous intermingling...
Expressive Oil Painting
An Open Air Approach to Creative Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Become a Landscape Painter
There's a world of difference between painting what you see and conveying what you feel. Expressive Oil Painting shows you how to create engaging landscapes that capture a sense of light, depth, movement and above all, your own unique impressions of the world around...
The Art of Portrait Drawing
Learn the Essential Techniques of the Masters
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2006
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."—Edgar Degas
Learn how to turn what you see into masterful, expressive art. With the practical instruction and advice in these pages, you can develop the skills necessary to draw fine portraits in the realist tradition.
In...
by Michael Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2005
Dynamic new ideas for your handmade cards
Dazzle your friends and loved ones with the one-of-a-kind projects in Cards that Pop Up, Flip & Slide. A few simple cuts and folds are all it takes to create over twenty cards and envelopes with moveable parts. From pop-up trees to flipping leaves...
by Barbara Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Torch-Fired Enamel Jewelry: Necklaces, Part 2 combines beading and wire-working techniques with the intense beauty of torch-fired enameled beads. Metal becomes your canvas as you learn the basics of enameling with a torch, then create five exquisite necklaces. Find out how easy it is to create unique...
Painting Sunlight and Shadow with Pastels
Essential Techniques for Brilliant Effects
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Infuse your paintings with light and life!
Whether you work outdoors or indoors, understanding the effects of light and shadow is key to making your art lifelike and engaging. Rather than providing a one-size-fits-all recipe for painting light, this book shows you how to capture the particular ambient...
by Gordon Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Painting with watercolors gives you endless opportunities to create the world you want. You choose whether to let the sun blaze or the rain pour, to move a maple tree here or make the trail wind over there, to subdue a hillside with quiet greens or make a forest glow with dazzling golds and reds....
Simplifying Design & Color for Artists
Positive Results Using Negative Painting Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
When you become a better designer and colorist, you become a better painter.
Painting doesn't have to be complicated to be good. In fact, it shouldn't be. Artist and best-selling author Linda Kemp (Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines) bypasses all the complexities of design and color to focus on...
by Margaret Kessler
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Instill more emotion in your paintings through Color Harmony
Color is one of the most powerful tools an artist can use to capture a mood or express an emotion. However, it can also be intimidating. In Color Harmony in Your Paintings, artist and teacher Margaret Kessler takes a friendly approach to...
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 Bet Borgeson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1997
Easy-to-follow demonstrations show you how to use colored pencils to paint trees, flowers, animals, people and other popular subjects.
The colored pencil is an easy-to-use, inexpensive and incredibly expressive medium. And nobody is more skilled with the pencil than Bet Borgeson.
Using...