Discusses materials and techniques useful in drawing or painting indoor scenes, with sections on light, shadows, reflections, and close-ups

Painting Interiors

Arts & Photography

Rodwell, Jenny

History & Criticism

Watson/Guptill

Provides an overview of watercolor painting, discussing tools, supplies, and techniques

Painting in Watercolour (Beginner's Guides)

Painting

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

Pastel paints require no mixing, offer permanent colour, can be used alone or in conjunction with other media, and are appropriate for any scale of painting. This introductory guide to their use is aimed at beginners who wish to develop their skills quickly and easily. It is illustrated on every spread, with many pictures taken specially for the book. It covers all the appropriate techniques and includes a number of step-by-step projects designed to give confidence and inspiration to the beginner.

Painting in Pastels (Studio Vista Beginner's Guides)

Painting Portraits in Oils (Beginner's Guides)

Cassell Illustrated*

Colour pencils are a comparatively new, exciting and still-evolving medium. This book shows the reader how to establish expanses of colour and create texture with an array of techniques. A variety of different projects demonstrate how to make expressive pictures using delicate strokes and chunky colour with the aim of encouraging the artist to put coloured pencils to their full and varied use. Topics covered include advice on choosing coloured pencils; how colours work and mix; the use of coloured papers; choice of scale with coloured pencils; cross-hatching, glazing and other colour-mixing techniques; blending, burnishing and shading; lights, whites and darker tones; making solid colour; creating textures and patterns; the advantages of watercolour pencils and pastel pencils.

Coloured Pencil Drawing

Drawing

As in any other kind of painting, observation, preparation and practice are the essential ingredients for good results in portrait painting. This book shows how to start developing your portrait skills, explaining how to see faces as an arrangement of forms, shapes, colours and tones, and then how to paint them in oils. The six step-by-step projects, by different artists, demonstrate how to achieve realistic portraits using a wide assortment of materials.

Portraits in Oils (Studio Vista Guide)

Introduces oil painting materials and techniques, and offers advice on painting still lifes and portraits

The Oil Painter's Handbook

Monahan, Patricia

THE COMPLETE WATERCOLOR ARTIST is a comprehensive home reference and instructional manual for all aspiring artists and experienced painters. It is designed to provide an all-around view of the art of watercolor -its history, the equipment required, and, most fundamentally, the techniques and skills needed to produce beautiful paintings. . The first section, THE WATERCOLOR TRADITION, analyzes picture-by-picture the techniques that the most influential artists in the field have developed. MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT helps to establish what you need and shows you how to put it to best use, while PRACTICAL WATERCOLOR takes you project-by-project through the key watercolor principles and techniques - from understanding color to using mixed media - thus enabling you to building on your skills by putting theory into practice.

Complete Watercolor Artist

Crescent

This is one of a series of books designed for both the beginner and enthusiast alike, providing information on many of the techniques associated with watercolour. Beginners can often find watercolour difficult at first but once a few simple techniques have been mastered success is assured, for more than any other medium success depends upon skill and boldness with brush and paint, on manual dexterity and the co-ordination of hand and eye, on a few simple rules and lots of practice.

Watercolour (Step by Step Art School)

Hamlyn

Everything around you is a subject for drawing--a potted plant, a sneaker, a beach, a bowl of vegetables, people. Almost as varied as what you can draw is the way you can draw. No two artists approach their work in the same way, and there are many different techniques and materials that you can use. Before experimenting with different materials, examine the fundamental principles of drawing, including outline and contour, shading and texture, planes and proportions, mass and volume, and perspective. As you progress through these exercises and examples, you will work with a variety of drawing media and find out about the marks and effects that can be achieved with charcoal and chalk, color sticks, pens, brush and ink, pastels, pencils and graphite, colored pencils, and markers.

Step-by-Step Art School: Drawing

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