Nice reference for painting landscapes, still life and portraits, with lighting and water techniques.

The Acrylic Painting Book

Arts & Photography

WENDON BLAKE

Painting

Watson/Guptill

The Portrait and Figure Painting Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Painting Male and Female Portraits

Themes

Watson-Guptill Pubns

Book by Blake, Wendon, Reyna, Rudy De

Seascapes in Acrylic Paperback Wendon, De Reyna, Rudy Blake

Pitman

Children's portraits in oil (The Artist's painting library)

Pitman House

'COMPLETE PAINTING COURSE, THE'

Macdonald

This easy-to-follow guide by a noted artist and teacher offers a wealth of valuable tips and suggestions for recording the beauty of nature on drawing paper. Stressing the value of on-the-spot drawings, Wendon Blake's clearly written manual provides time-tested advice on training your powers of observation; judging proportions of typical landscape forms such as boulders, trees, and clouds; learning how to judge light and dark areas of a subject to convert colors to black-and-white tones; and much more. You'll also find a host of valuable pointers on how best to use pencil, chalk, charcoal, and tools; how to establish linear and aerial perspectives; and how to transform cubical, cylindrical, rounded, and irregular shapes into such natural forms as mountains, forests, sand dunes, trees, meadows, rocky shorelines, and other geographical features. A special feature of this book is a series of ten step-by-step demonstrations of complete landscape and coastal subjects. You'll learn to put all the techniques you've acquired to work in drawing the rich texture and details of trees, the intricate forms of a meadow with the broad shapes of hills in the distance, a stream winding among rocks and trees, the rugged forms of mountains, a shadowy pine forest, and more. These demonstrations are organized according to medium in three groupings — pencil, chalk, and charcoal — and present a wide range of drawing techniques to show you the many ways of rendering contour, light and shade, texture, and detail in these versatile drawing media. An indispensable guide for novices, Landscape Drawing Step by Step will also serve as a highly useful review of fundamentals for teachers and experienced artists.

Landscape Drawing Step by Step (Dover Art Instruction)

Study & Teaching

Dover Publications

Watercolorists paint more landscapes than any other subject. The ideal medium for capturing the drama and beauty of fall foliage, shadows on snowbanks, and rapidly moving cloud formations, watercolors encourage painters to work with speed and spontaneity. This easy-to-follow guide, enhanced with 122 illustrations (including 60 in full color), contains all the information artists need to paint a successful watercolor landscape. You'll learn how to use washes, drybrush, and wet-in-wet techniques to paint mountains, rocks, and mist as well as how to apply color when painting the sky, trees, and terrain. The heart of the book can be found in seven expert step-by-step painting demonstrations that allow you to study and master every significant operation involved in rendering deciduous and evergreen trees, hills, a lake, snow and ice, clouds, and a sunset. You'll also find a wealth of helpful hints on selecting landscape subjects, composition, lighting, brushwork, and much else. In short, Watercolor Landscapes Step by Step is an indispensable, practical manual for novices, but it will also provide inspiration and serve as a helpful review for experienced artists.

Watercolor Landscapes Step by Step (Dover Art Instruction)

Landscapes in Oil

Explains the basics of color mixing and harmonies and offers guidance in techniques for producing color and lighting effects with oil paint

Color in Oil (The Artist's Painting Library)

Graphic Design

Watson-Guptill Publications

Explains the basic concepts of color mixing and harmonies and demonstrates techniques for producing lighting effects and using color in watercolor painting

Color in Watercolor (The Artist's Painting Library)

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