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In this delightfully illustrated book Susie Wynne shows how to draw and paint a range of popular pets in watercolor - dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, horses - in step-by-step detail.
Learning how to paint your pet has great popular appeal. The Daily Mail weekend color supplement has already featured Susie Wynne's work twice and this brought in a huge postbag.
Susie specializes in painting people's pets and over the years she has perfected her drawing...
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You'll explore a variety of subjects and themes, including flowers, foliage, landscapes, skies, cities, figures, art movements, and historical eras. Begin with a quick overview of the basics of color, color mixing, and mixed media. Explore a variety of color and media combinations, including brilliant brights, muted neutrals, high-contrast complements, and special effects. Find inspiration in evocative photos, abundant palettes, and beautiful paintings....
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Do you want to paint quick, loose watercolours? This practical guide for beginners, in a handy sketchbook format, will show you how you can achieve attractive and successful paintings in just thirty minutes - ideal for today's busy amateur artists. Expert watercolourist, Fiona Peart, shares her tips and techniques for producing quick and effective paintings of beautiful flowers. Ten step-by-step demonstrations follow an extensive range of the best...
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In “The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners”, artist and Urban Sketcher correspondent Suhita Shirodkar shares essential skills for sketching architecture, people, and everyday objects on location.
You'll learn the basics of value, color mixing, and perspective through helpful studies and exercises, whether at home, in studio, and on location. “The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners” is perfect for anyone who's...
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"Written and illustrated by Yasmina Mattson of Yasmina Creates, You Can Draw Cute Animals features her beginner-friendly, three-step drawing method: observation, simplification, and exaggeration using simple shapes and refining and adding details." -- Back cover.
"You Can Draw Cute Animals shows easy ways to draw adorable animals such as foxes, monkeys, cats, hedgehogs, owls, seals, snails, and more, using enjoyable techniques that guarantee cuteness...
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All watercolour landscape artists need to know how to paint water, and in this book Terry Harrison excels in demystifying the painting process. Here he shares his expert advice and no-nonsense tips and techniques for producing quick, effective paintings of water. There are two or three-step exercises for painting water in all its varied moods and situations, including ripples, reflections, puddles, streams, breaking waves, choppy water, surf, bridges,...
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Each project in this guide book comes with instructions on how to make the paint, and also includes experiments and explorations for you to try. Plus, a simple painting accompanies each featured material and combines it with other materials or techniques, so you'll never lack inspiration.
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Ann Blockley is a very successful artist, known for the innovative way in which she uses texture as a key element in her work. This book, in Collins Artist's Studio series, looks at how she achieves her stunning effects and provides essential guidelines for the intermediate painter wishing to develop this aspect of their own painting.
Creating texture in watercolour can be quite a challenge but this book provides a fresh approach to the subject....
13) Watercolor
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In this irreplaceable guide, award-winning artist and instructor John Pike shares with artists at all levels of experience the expertise gained through a lifetime of perfecting his craft. All the information watercolorists could possibly want is here -- choosing a brush; selecting and composing subject matter; producing a variety of washes, brush strokes, and textures; making corrections; and discovering the properties of common watercolor papers....
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Want to understand the nitty-gritty details of watercolor painting? Susan Miller has crafted the all-in-one watercolor painting guide for those wanting to put their best foot forward. This has all the best watercolor painting tips and tricks for beginners. With this watercolor painting handbook in your possession, the results are going to be breathtaking.
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Landscapes is a favorite painting subject. We all live in the natural world and have personal responses to specific places. This ebook explores a variety of the aspects of the land that are used in any or all landscape paintings. Specifically the earth parts of the landscape. A variety of approaches are discussed and methods that can be employed to assist any artists interested in this process. Specific discussion is given to watercolor and this medium...
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Hazel Soan is a well-known and popular artist and an enthusiastic and inspirational teacher. In “The Essence of Watercolour” Hazel shows how wonderfully versatile and beguiling the medium of watercolour is and how to get the most out of it.
Hazel stresses how important it is to understand the characteristics of the medium in order to exploit it to the full. She encourages the reader to explore the properties of watercolour and to be unafraid of...
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Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan has distilled her art teaching into the things that matter most and can be digested in a short period of time—in just one afternoon you can start painting. Learning to paint is one of the life-long aspirations of many of us, and these techniques can be picked up faster than you think.
Hazel Soan's concise book, filled with easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step exercises, is written in an accessible...
18) Watercolour Tips
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Packed full of tips for the aspiring watercolourist, its handy format makes it ideal for quick reference either in the studio or out in the field. Contents include:
• Essential tips on all the basic watercolour techniques, plus helpful advice on sketching and drawing.
• Guidelines on painting skies, backgrounds, foregrounds, the main subject, trees, details and shadows.
• Clear and straightforward step-by-step instructions for painting a complete...
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Simple, direct language and 125 purposeful illustrations, including 37 color plates, show beginners how to handle the medium. Teacher and master watercolorist Kautzky discusses color pigments, paper, and other supplies, as well as washes, strokes, and the use of accessories for special effects. Valuable instructions on composition and related subjects.
20) Art of Gouache
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If you want to learn about gouache, this should keep you satisfied for a very long time.' Artbookreview.net If you love painting with watercolour and are ready to experiment with something different, then the versatile medium of gouache could be just the thing for you. Gouache is water-based, quick-drying and, can be painted light over dark as well as dark over light. Ideal for the beginner, it can be used thinly in a watercolour style, or more thickly...
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