How to Draw and Paint What You See

RAY CAMPBELL SMITH

Nelson

This practical guide to the techniques of painting, drawing, printmaking and the related visual arts, both traditional and contemporary, is also an enyclopaedia of tools and materials in which every medium is described and its uses and creative potential examined. A series of charts provides a reference guide to the most useful pigments, with advice on such properties as lightfastness, opacity and toxicity. An appendix includes recipes and methods for preparing your own colours, painting mediums, varnishes and grounds. The book also provides advice on equipping a studio, storing and maintaining artworks, framing, and presenting and exhibiting work.

The Artist's Handbook

Angus&Robertson

Watercolour for all: A practical guide for beginners & improvers

David&Charles

Ray Campbell Smith explores the stages of his creative process from intial thoughts through to finished painting, revealing his approach, inspirations and techniques, information which will benefit all those striving to improve their art. This practical teaching guide features 50 of Ray's watercolours accompanied by considered explanatory text, working sketches and details. Selecting a wide range of approachable, popular subjects, Ray describes the methods and materials he uses to paint them, and demonstrates how he employs fluent brushwork and a limited palette to distil a scene down to its essentials. Throughout Ray stresses the importance of good composition and illustrates how he determines the most effective viewpoint. He also encourages readers to add interest and impact to their work by making the most of tonal and colour contrasts, and describes the best ways of doing this. Ray is an outstanding teacher of his art, and by offering readers an invaluable insight into his working methods, this book will help all artists avoid the pitfalls of the watercolour medium and produce paintings with style and confidence.

Ray Campbell Smith's Watercolour Landscapes

Arts & Photography

Painting

Introduction to Perspective (Art School)

An introduction to the essential techniques of creating watercolour colour in a full range of media. It provides fully annotated, photographic sequences to guide the reader from the first strokes to the final composition, and full-size reproductions allow closer inspections of great masterworks.

DK Art School: Watercolour Colour (DK Art School)

Dorling, Kindersley

Intended for enthusiastic beginners and practising artists alike, this book shows you everything you need to know about still life. Easy-to-follow projects instruct you in essentials, such as how different type of materials work, and aim to inspire you to tackle more complex techniques. This book is one of a series of titles which range from acrylic figure to oil portrait and from pastel life to water-colour landscape. It offers close up step-by-step photographs which show still life being created before your eyes and it lets you into the secrets of how professional artists produce their work.

DK Art School: Introduction to Still Life (DK Art School)

Drawing

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd.

Le Manuel de l'artiste

Bordas Editions

MANUAL DEL ARTISTA, EL

Tursen S.A. - H. Blume

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