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A workshop-style book, oriented to the wide community of crafters and artists including those interested in paint, surface design, mixed media, and collage, which explores a wide variety of innovative and experimental paint techniques. Chapters cover composition, abstraction, texture, layering, using found objects, encaustic, integrating text, and adding digital imagery
2) Watercolor Your Way: Techniques, Palettes, and Projects to Fit Your Skill Level and Creative Goals
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"Presented in four chapters that each focus on a specific technique, palette, and set of projects, Watercolor Your Way meets artists at their current level so they can enjoy the process as they build skills"--
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[2023]
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Learn how to create adorable mixed-media art to send to loved ones, friends, and even strangers via snail mail-then share in the happiness it brings.
Author Sarah J. Gardner has made it her mission to help others find their creativity and inspiration through mixed-media art. In “Share Your Joy”, she offers her idea for how to share joy via handmade postcards, note cards, and other items that can be mailed to anyone around the world and put a...
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2021.
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Discover and deepen your creative style through the process of creating 100 small mixed-media paintings.
In “Fresh Paint”, creative influencer, workshop leader, and author of Brave Intuitive Painting and Creative Revolution, Flora Bowley, and her collaborator and fellow artist, Lynzee Lynx, offer transformational, accessible, and lasting ways to infuse more meaning and authenticity into your artwork.
For years, Flora and Lynzee have witnessed...
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2021.
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Learn to observe the world more deeply-with curiosity, empathy, and joy-as you sketch the stories unfolding all around you.
In Drawn on the Way, Sarah Nisbett shares her techniques for creating captivating line drawings that capture the moments and moods that you encounter on the train, in a café, outdoors, anywhere: a young woman lost in thought, a pair of hands clasped on a lap, a peppy beagle, a pair of jeans-clad crossed legs. Sarah invites you...
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2022.
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Leave your artistic insecurities behind as you easily re-create the simple but beautiful drawings in “Art Made Easy: Easy Drawing.”
“Easy Drawing” offers beginning artists a definite way to succeed. Without getting bogged down in a lot of technical detail, aspiring artists just need to gather a few inexpensive supplies and put pencil to paper! Even if you have never drawn before, the engaging yet easy subjects are simple to re-create by following...
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2022.
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"In Oil Painting Every Day you'll learn a fun, modern approach to oil painting that allows you to build a solid foundation of skills and techniques for painting contemporary landscapes, seascapes, florals, still lifes, portraits, and more."--Provided by publisher.
9) Watercolor made simple: techniques, projects, and encouragement to get started painting and creating
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2023.
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"Watercolor Made Simple gently guides aspiring artists to develop their watercolor skills and create beautiful paintings in a relaxing and enjoyable way"--
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©1989
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Whether you specialize in drawing-even cartooning and animationùor prefer media such as acrylic, oil, pastel, or watercolor, a good knowledge of perspective is invaluable. It is the foundation of all great paintings and drawings, no matter what medium. Perspective shows you everything you need to know to make objects look three dimensional. Practice the methods of measuring and dividing areas proportionately; then learn how we perceive depth and...
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2022.
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Modern calligraphy uses a brush pen and paper to create beautiful, hand-lettered art. Now you can learn to form your own whimsical, inspired artwork with the help of “Modern Calligraphy”.
Unlike traditional calligraphy, which typically uses a pen to form consistent letters that follow stricter guidelines, modern calligraphy allows you to personalize your hand-lettered art. There are fewer rules, which adds to the fun! You can add color, florals,...
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Packed with the signature can-do attitude that makes beloved artist Danny Gregory a creativity guru to thousands across the globe, this unique guide serves up a hearty helping of inspiration. For aspiring artists who want to draw and paint but just can't seem to find time in the day, Gregory offers 5- to 10-minute exercises for every skill level that fit into any schedule--whether on a plane, in a meeting, or at the breakfast table--along with practical...
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For more than a thousand years, Eastern Christians have used their hands and hearts to create icons, proclaiming God's reality in a visible—and breathtakingly beautiful—way. This ancient art is enjoying a renewed interest in the West, as people of faith create icons and use them to meditate on mysteries for which there are no words.
A Brush with God is a guide to painting icons and using them in prayer. Written with warmth and energy, it describes...
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2017.
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Learn how to create the illusion of three-dimensional space in your drawings. It is as mundane as it is astounding: placed in the right way, a couple of lines on paper create three-dimensional space. To be more exact, the illusion of space. The interest in three-dimensional drawing may initially arise from the intention to depict visible reality. However, the creation of depth is a fascinating challenge in every artistic composition. In this volume,...
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"Pinching is a wonderfully direct method of interacting with clay, capable of making a myriad of forms, usually small, and requiring the minimum of tools. With this superb collection of pinched projects, Jacqui Atkin, a widely respected ceramics teacher and author, shows what this simple technique is able to achieve. Each project is explained with step-by-step sequences and plenty of options for surface decoration and glazing techniques. There's something...
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©2010
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The best-selling guide ... now completely updated to include online tutorials! Basic Perspective Drawing introduces students, both those in formal design courses and self-learners, to the basic principles and techniques of perspective drawing. Clear and accessible illustrations show how to construct perspective views one step at a time. The new, streamlined Sixth Edition contains must-have content for students and instructors in art and design, architecture,...
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2010.
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Collage Lab offers artists and crafters a fun and experimental approach to making art. The book is organized into 52 different labs which may, but don't need to be, explored on a weekly basis. The labs can be worked in any order, so that readers can flip around to learn a new mixed-media technique or be inspired by a particular collage theme or application. The underlying message of this book is that artists can and should learn and gain expertise...
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2021.
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“Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Animals” presents practical and creative techniques for drawing and painting animals in a variety of mediums and styles, from realistic to cartoon.
With accessible, encouraging guidance from Amarilys Henderson-artist, popular online instructor, and author of “Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces’-explore:
• Basic Supplies. Learn about the sketching and painting mediums you'll use in your work,...
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