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 ...
	BARRON'S Drawing & Painting Fantasy Beast   Art students with special interest in comic strips, graphic novels, and computer games graphics will find a wealth of instruction and inspiration in this new volume. A widely recognized artist in these media shows how to draw and paint fantastic beasts from literature and legend, double-headed sea monsters and ...
	BATSFORD Capturing Light in Acrylics   John Hammond, a highly successful practicing artist, shares his experiences and knowledge of the incredibly adaptable medium of acrylics and offers helpful advice, instruction, and inspiration. Particular attention is paid to the skilful interpretation of light to convey the mood and atmosphere of a place. Author: John Hammond Format: paperback, 128 ...
	DAVID & CHARLES Art Workbook Series: A Complete Course in 10 Lessons   This essential guide introduces the basic materials and techniques and leads the reader through a series of progressively challenging lessons. The book covers a diverse and popular range of themes, from still lifes and landscapes to people and collages. Format: spiral bound hardback, 128 pgs., 11 1/4 in. x 8 ...
	DAVID & CHARLES Artist's Complete Problem Solver   A complete and innovative practical guide that offers you simple solutions to common drawing and painting problems. Solutions are presented through annotated pictures and easy-to-follow techniques. A wide range of subject areas are shown in all media including watercolor, graphite, colored pencil, charcoal acrylic and gouache. Author: Trudy Friend ISBN: 9780715337592 Publisher: ...
	DAVID & CHARLES Quick & Clever Acrylics   This book is a comprehensive introduction to painting with acrylics suitable for beginners to the medium. Each chapter explores a subject, starting with technique exercises and moving into a step-by-step demonstrated painting. the focus of the steps is to get top results with acrylics in a short amount of ...
	DK Acrylics Workshop   This portable book contains everything you need to know to become a better acrylics artist. Practical tips and inspiring examples help breathe life into your paintings. Format: paperback, 128 pgs., 7 3/4 in. x 10 in. Publisher: DK, 2006
	DK An Introduction to Acrylics   Whether you've taken art classes or never held a brush before, An Introduction to Acrylics will show you everything you need to know about working in this challenging-- but rewarding -- medium. Easy-to-follow projects, shown as they were created, teach the essentials while inspiring the student to tackle increasingly ...
	LIQUITEX Acrylic Book   The Liquitex Acrylic Book is written by the people who have made professional water-based acrylics longer than any other manufacturer. This book is the result of many lifetimes of experience and expertise. Written for artists, educators, and students of all levels, this easy-access book has six main chapters: 1. Essential ...
	NORTH LIGHT Acrylic Innovation   Acrylic Innovation delves into acrylic's potential to create unique styles by addressing the methods and techniques that allow reader to find their own voice within the medium. The author presents a variety of successful acrylic painters, each using acrylic in unique ways to create their own original styles. By ...
	NORTH LIGHT Acrylic Revolution   This book shows you everything you need to know to be successful in your acrylic painting projects. With over 101 of the most popular, interesting, and indispensable tricks for working with acrylic – each with its own step-by-step demonstration – there is literally page after page of acrylic instruction ...
	NORTH LIGHT Acrylics: The Watercolor Alternative -- DVD   In this DVD you will see that acrylics are an attractive and viable alternative to watercolor. Using many techniques from watercolor, you will learn how to make the most of this easy-to-master medium. Using transparent, translucent, and opaque color applications, you will learn how to paint two very different landscapes. ...
	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 Draw and Paint Realistic Horses   There are 12 projects in pencil, acrylics and oils. the realistic style is appealing, accessible to all skill levels, and the author's expertise on horse anatomy, structure, characteristics and coloring will appeal to horse lovers as well as artist. The reference colors, color demonstrations and comparative drawings show the ...
	NORTH LIGHT Jerry Yarnell's Landscape Painting Secrets   Yarnell covers the basics in acrylic painting, including terminology, materials, color mixing, hues and values, and simple techniques. Intermediate and advanced techniques are then presented in four 8-step demonstrations on water, land, trees, sky and atmospheric conditions. There are 2 complete landscape scenes utilizing the techniques featured in the ...
	NORTH LIGHT Keys to Painting Fur & Feathers   Nothing creates a stronger sense of "life" in your wildlife art than realistic textures. This book, a collection of some of the finest art instruction ever published, will show you proven ways to paint fur, feathers and other realistic wildlife textures. You'll find easy-to-follow instructions and demonstrations from top ...
	NORTH LIGHT Paint People in Acrylic with Lee Hammond   Perfect for beginners, this guide shows how to get started painting portraits from the neck up. Each project builds on the previous, so you progressively develop your skills. The book teaches the art of painting a wide assortment of people - of all ages and ethnicities - from a variety ...
	NORTH LIGHT Paint Realistic Animals in Acrylic with Lee Hammond   This book has 24 step-by-step demonstrations exploring how to refine the basic assembly of spheres and foundation of color to produce realistic animals. it is full of tips for painting facial features, fur and feathers. Lee Hammond helps the reader discover a simple and fun approach to painting their ...
	NORTH LIGHT Painting with Brenda Harris, Volume 3: Lovely Landscapes   Let beloved television painter Brenda Harris show you how to paint charming landscapes in acrylics! You’ll quickly learn basic color mixing and brushwork techniques, then put your skills into practice with 10 beautiful step-by-step painting projects. Brenda even gives you templates for each project and specific tips for painting ...
	QUARRY Transformational Painting   This is a unique, how-to art instruction book, taught by masterful artist Dan Carrel. Using his 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 light ...
	SOUTHWATER Painting with Oils, Acrylics, & Gouache   This is the ideal introductory book for anyone with an interest in learning how to paint with oils, acrylic, and gouache. Advice is given on choosing and using paints, brushes, palettes, papers, and canvas, and on working with paint additives and sealing work with different types of varnish. The basic ...
	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 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil and Acrylic   William F. Powell’s popular Color Mixing Recipe Cards have served as a handy reference of essential color combinations for almost 10 years. And now this collection of recipes is available in an updated, convenient format developed with artists’ needs in mind! Now packaged in a concealed wire-o-bound book that ...
	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 Color Mixing Bible   All You'll Ever Need to Know About Mixing Pigments in Watercolor, Pastel, Crayon, Acrylic, and Oil Mixing colors accurately may be an art unto itself. In fact, many artists are discouraged by the time and expense it takes to mix and match colors, and achieve the right results. Even more ...
	WATSON-GUPTILL How to Draw and Paint Fairies   How do you draw a fairy? It’s not like you can convince one to do life modeling in your studio. How to Draw and Paint Fairies confronts the fairy labor shortage directly, explaining all the techniques needed to bring fairy art to life. For beginners, explanations of basic techniques ...
	WATSON-GUPTILL The Acrylics Book: Materials and Techniques for Today's Artist   This encyclopedic reference on the most versatile of all painting mediums is a great tool to help beginning and seasoned artists produce their best work in acrylics. Highly flexible, acrylic paint can mimic the appearance of oils, tempera, and watercolors in unique ways, with each method pictured in a ...
	WATSON-GUPTILL The New Acrylics   Complete Guide to the New Generation of Acrylic Paints The acrylics of today have grown into the most adaptable art material of the modern age. Focusing on a popular art medium that has been around for over 50 years, The New Acrylics illustrates how artists can create lush textures, color, ...