BARRON'S Color Mixing for Artists   This reference book for art students, teachers, and professionals presents examples of finished paintings, as well as color charts that demonstrate color mixing as it applies to watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Students learn how to choose and mix colors to produce the maximum color range from the minimum number ...
	DAVID & CHARLES Flower Painting Workbook   This is a fascinating practical watercolor workbook that explores the approaches and techniques required to develop your flower painting skills and explore your own creativity. The first section is a foundation course, explaining materials, theory and techniques to master the basics. The second section is five detailed step-by-step projects. ...
	DK The Complete Guide to Watercolor   For painters of every level, this comprehensive volume presents each creative process in clear, full-color photographic sequences. From mixing colors and applying washes to tonal studies and pattern in landscapes, The Complete Guide to Watercolor contains everything one needs to know about working in this very expressive medium. This ...
	FREDRIX Tom Lynch's Secrets of Painting on Watercolor Canvas DVD   Whether your watercolor paintings are of a secluded country road, a sparkling lake, or a French café, Tom Lynch can help you capture them on canvas. His 50 minute instructional DVD – with 10 minute bonus tips section – shows you exactly how painting on watercolor canvas will improve ...
	FW Watercolor-The Spirit of Spontaneity   This book celebrates the painting process by examining the spontaneous spirit of watercolor. The author's hands-on approach will give the reader the tools to open their minds to develop their own authentic style. All artists will be inspired to push their boundaries of creativity. Author: Karlyn Holman ISBN: 9780979221811 Publisher: F+W, 2008
	GRAFIX Using Liquid Frisket   Jerry Griffith, developer of the Incredible Nib and the Incredible White Mask shows how to create remarkable effects in your paintings using liquid frisket. This complimentary tool to the Incredible line contains 48 pages of practical advice. Included is a section with practice exercises that you can do right ...
	NORTH LIGHT Charles Reid's Watercolor Secrets -- DVD   Charles Reid, one of America’s finest artists, starts with his favorite subject of all: the human figure. Sit in on his sessions with a live model, as he paints several artistic poses, both sitting and reclining. If you're intimidated by the prospect of figure painting, this DVD is just ...
	NORTH LIGHT Creating Creatures of Fantasy and Imagination   Discover an enchanted world of imaginary beings in your own extraordinary drawings and paintings. Your journey begins, oddly enough, with the ordinary things that surround you every day. With Creating Creatures of Fantasy and Imagination, you will learn how to use your own photographs and other true-life inspiration to ...
	NORTH LIGHT Creating Textured Landscapes With Pen, Ink & Watercolor   This book uses reference photos and sketches to show how to create realistic landscape paintings. Pen and ink techniques are used to add depth, impact and textural contrast. The basic design principles used in landscape painting are simplified throughout each chapter and brought together to make a finished landscape ...
	NORTH LIGHT Dramatic Light: Paint Eye-Catching Art in Watercolor and Oil   Dramatic Light features 21 light effects that will thrill you to your toes, each epitomized in a start-to-finish painting demonstration. These step-by-step lessons show how to capture the subtle drama of everyday light: sparkling glass, sheer curtains, moonlit skies, shimmering water, cityscapes and landscapes. Fill your paintings with dramatic light ...
	NORTH LIGHT Exploring Watercolor   This book is a fresh perspective which helps the reader take their work to the next level. There are 22 open-ended, step-by-step demonstrations using a variety of color combinations, papers and techniques. Included are 9 exercises illustrating expressive ways to put paint to paper. Author: Elizabeth Groves ISBN: 9781581808742 Publisher: North Light, 2007
	NORTH LIGHT Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & Color   This book provides inspiration and insight into the art of watercolor for the beginner or experienced painter. Learn how the unusual technique of pouring paint and masking give a glowing quality to the picture. Author: Kevin Macpherson ISBN: 9781581800531 Publisher: North Light, 2000
	NORTH LIGHT Incredible Light & Texture in Watercolor -- DVD   Watch as famous artist John Toogood layers wash after wash, gradually building rich texture and luminous light through two painting demonstrations: a gorgeous waterscape looking out on a crystal-clear bay, and a scene from the town of St. Georges in Bermuda, known for its narrow, provocative lanes and bright, ...
	NORTH LIGHT Putting People in your Paintings   Add a personal touch to your watercolors with 11 step-by-step demonstrations that cover people in a variety of scenes and situations. The book gives you the techniques you need to capture the living, breathing essence of people. Author: Laurel Hart Format: paperback, 128 pgs., 8 1/2 in. x 11 in. Publisher: North ...
	NORTH LIGHT Stunning Crystal & Glass: The Watercolorist's Guide   In Stunning Crystal and Glass: The Watercolorist’s Guide to Capturing the Splendor of Light, dramatic light-filled paintings become possible no matter what your skill level. The book teaches how to go from dark to light - a technique that is easy to learn and ultimately adds more depth and ...
	NORTH LIGHT The Watercolor Bible   The Watercolor Bible is your complete and definitive book on watercolor techniques and principles, jam-packed with indispensable advice for nearly every aspect of working with the medium. Although this book is loaded with information, it’s presented in a friendly, straightforward, heavily illustrated way so that it’s not at all overwhelming. ...
	NORTH LIGHT The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook: Landscapes   A virtual treasure chest for landscape painters, this book is overflowing with 30+ years of tips, tricks and brush-in-hand techniques. 30 painting demonstrations cover all the wonderful specifics of painting water, sky and land. You’ll LOVE the breakdown of each element, one by one and step by step! This inspiring ...
	NORTH LIGHT Watercolor A to Z   This book features 26 lessons starting with "A" animals to "Z" zeroing in on your artistic style. The lessons are a series of step-by-step demonstrations using a diverse sampling of subjects, ideas and techniques. Perfect for both beginners and experienced artists, this is an engaging reference for expanding the ...
	NORTH LIGHT Watercolor in Motion (book & DVD)   This book provides step-by-step photos illustrating how to paint dynamic watercolors. It is accompanied with a 50-minute DVD showing how to paint wet-into-wet techniques. The techniques cover color and design, value, shapes and shadows through 18 mini-demos. Author: Birgit O'Conner ISBN: 9781581808834 Publisher: North Light, 2008
	NORTH LIGHT Watercolor Without Boundaries   This organized guide has step-by-step demos that are cross-referenced to direct you to specific techniques. Organized like a cookbook, you'll follow basic recipes, but can change ingredients to create your own interpretations. The demos include a variety of subjects; combining traditional with non-traditional techniques. Author: Karlyn Holman ISBN: 9780979221873 Publisher: F+W, 2010
	STERLING Art School: A Complete Painter's Course   It's like going to art school...but in your own home! With more than 400 information-packed pages of basic techniques for watercolors, oils, and acrylics, plus carefully graded projects and over 1000 specially commissioned pictures, this colorful, oversized painter's course will turn you into a complete and versatile artist. Overcome ...
	WALTER FOSTER Watercolor Mixing Directory   This easy-to-use directory explains color theory by demonstrating a range of color mixing techniques. Color mixing can be tricky at first; but with a little practice and this all-in-one resource, you'll soon get the hang of it! The book features more than 50 carefully selected colors that, when used with ...
	WALTER FOSTER Watercolor: A Complete Painting kit for Beginners   This is the perfect introductory kit for anyone who wants to learn the wonderful art of watercolor painting. Inside is everything needed to get started, including a full-color project book filled with inspiration and ideas. The project book begins with information on art tools and materials and then covers ...
	WATSON-GUPTILL Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques   Until now, the techniques used to create great abstract paintings were surrounded by a veil of mystery. Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques lifts that veil to reveal the exact methods behind the masterworks. Now students and professional artists can stop guessing and start building on the techniques of the ...
	WATSON-GUPTILL Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Watercolor   This volume has something for everyone, from the greenest novice to the more experienced painter. It's filled with step-by-step demonstrations, many based on working from photographs and sketches, many others focusing on painting on location and from live models. And, there are plenty of inspiring finished paintings by favorite ...
	WATSON-GUPTILL How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself   According to author Nita Engle, "there is no greater freedom than play." Using this breakthrough approach to watercolor, Engle shows the reader how to combine spontaneity and control to produce lively, realistic subjects. Step-by-step projects illustrate how to achieve textural effects by literally throwing, stamping, squirting, pouring, and spraying color ...
	WATSON-GUPTILL The Tao of Watercolor; A Revolutionary Approach to the Practice of Painting   The first in a series, "The Path of Painting", this book covers the five essentials of the Tao as applied to watercolor - Centering, Playfulness, Balance, Flow, and Deliberateness. Paperback, 112 pages. ISBN:823050572. WATSON-GUPTILL
	WATSON-GUPTILL You Can Paint Watercolors   Have you always wanted to paint in watercolor? Now you can! You Can Paint Watercolors will give even the most hesitant of beginners the enthusiasm and confidence to pick up a brush and give it a try. Alwyn Crawshaw takes the absolute beginner by the hand and starts by ...