Dust jacket notes: "This book is concerned with the artist's experience in recording his visual world as an art form, exploring how the creative painter SEES. Because the art of drawing and painting is a visual experience, the author approaches the subject through the understanding of observation. Jack Clifton, who has taught for over twenty-five years, concentrates on learning to see first, techniques next, and then melds the two together. He believes that, with an understanding of basic problems faced by all artists, students can more quickly acquire the ability to be self-critical and sooner be able to teach themselves. Without imposing a limited viewpoint, Clifton has provided many step-by-step diagrams and illustrations of his own work as well as those of the masters in describing how to SEE and paint creatively. We recommend this book to all artists, particularly those who teach or to students who are being taught. It is basically a beginner's book on how to paint realistically, but the book abounds with information valuable to artists of all levels of experience. Hardcover, 11 x 8.5 inches, 160 pages, 25 pages in full color.

The Eye of the Artist

Clifton, Jack

North Light Publishers

6 Artists Paint a Portrait: Alfred Chadbourn, George Passantino, Charles Reid, Ariane Beigneux, Robert Baxter, Ann Toulmin-Rothe

Watercolor made easy

Arts & Photography

Olson, Herbert Vincent

Painting

Vintage Book covers making Paintings from your Film Photography

The artist and the camera

Michini, Albert

Photography & Video

Dust jacket notes: "Leonard Brooks makes a personal survey of his many years' experience in the world of water and color. He examines the fundamental uses of watercolor and wash and illustrates ways of using them as a sketching medium or for finished paintings. Numerous examples of the many ways of using aqueous media are shown including a set of experimental exercises that will help the reader to find his own personal style of painting. Basic instruction in using the new acrylic pigments with demonstrations to show the numerous approaches to contemporary uses, figurative and abstract. Gouache, casein and inks are also discussed. For the painter of watercolor or acrylics this book will provide a background and coverage presented by a master of the aqueous media."

The Many Ways of Water & Color: Watercolor, Acrylic, Casein, Gouache, Inks, Mixed Techniques

Brooks, Leonard

Contents include chapters on Drawing, perspective, composition, subject selection and choice of view, picture making and demonstrations: a still life, a portrait, and a landscape.

On drawing & painting

Landry, Paul A.

A fine copy with no wear or markings in a lightly used dust jacket. Fully illustrated. 4to - over 9?" - 12" Tall

North Light Collection 2: The works, viewpoints, and techniques of the contemporary artists as featured in the pages of North light magazine

Dust jacket notes: "Nechis, a devoted watercolorist, is constantly challenged by the versatility of the medium. Never content to repeat the tried and predictable, she searches for new avenues to explore, and the results are as stimulating as they are unexpected. 'In these pages,' says Barbara Nechis, 'you will not find out how to paint a barn or a rock, wave or apple. What you will find is an approach to painting in which these objects appear, but are not the central focus.' Well aware of the difficulties artists can encounter when moving away from a structured approach, Nechis provides constant attention to detail as she helps you develop the control that will make your spontaneous expressions more than lucky 'happy accidents.' She includes numerous examples of her own work, along with paintings by other outstanding artists; to help you understand the creative thought processes inherent in this exploratory approach, she explains the philosophy behind each work and the actual techniques used...."

Watercolor The Creative Experience

Nechis, Barbara

A full treatment of the artist Frank Reilly's techniques, and explains them in an easy-to-understand format.

The Student's Guide to Painting

Faragasso, Jack

Drawing and Painting Animals

Drawing and painting animals

Henning, Fritz

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