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The Art Shop @ My Artist Loft: Painting Books
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Pastel for Serious Beginner Artists constantly tell us that they need guidance for rendering skin tones in their portraiture. Clear set of easy-to-follow principles for painting a variety of skin tones in three major mediums--oil, pastel and watercolor. The first chapter is rooted in the basics: Recognize and use the five major elements of painting: drawing, value, color, composition and edges. From there, artists learn how to work with light, shadow and color to effectively capture the beautiful skin tones of various ethnic groups: Caucasian, Asian, African-American & Hispanic.
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The New Acrylics: Complete Guide to the New Generation of Acrylic Paints Create lush textures, color, and luster with the modern acrylics. They can create rich metallic effects, or even 3-dimensional sculptures. Geared toward more non-conventional ways in which to manipulate modern-day acrylics, and demonstrates new applications such as glazing, textured effects, soft sculpture effects, or staining, thus reinventing the old way of handling acrylics, and revealing a fabulous new artistic medium |
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Paint People In Acrylic Over 20 step-by-step projects walk you through painting realistic and detailed life-like people. Specific demonstrations simplify difficult features such as eyes, noses, hair, and mouths Perfect for beginners, using photos as a reference. Paint portraits from the neck up, each project builds on the previous so readers progressively develop their skills. Ultimately, they will master the art of painting people--of all ages and ethnicities. |
Paint Realistic Animals This book is full of expert tips for painting animal eyes, mouths, noses and ears. Learn to make fur and feathers look remarkably real, and avoid common mistakes like "humanizing" eyes. You'll find an easy trick for making accurate drawings and color "recipes" for some of the most common fur tones. Before you know it, you'll be able to paint not just the animals that roam and soar through this book, but any animal that captures your heart!
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Painting Animals Frequently focusing on animals, Christophe Drochon's strikingly realistic yet dreamlike images reveal nature’s beauty and fragility, as well as Drochon’s profound concern over its destruction. As he creates, we watch the progression from initial sketches done outdoors ‘from life’ to painstaking studio work. Examples in a range of media showcase the different ways he captures a big cat’s baleful gaze, a macaw’s luminous plumage, and the ominous peace of a slumbering polar bear.
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Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light and Color For the beginner or experienced painter, this book provided inspiration and insight into the art of watercolour. Learn how the unusual techniques of pouring paint and masking give a glowing quality to the picture. Pouring causes the colour to tint rather than cover the paper while masking allows more freedom in applying colors. |
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Discover the Joy of The techniques, described in both the body of instruction and special sidebars, highlight the shortcuts Jacqueline has developed to get great results. Aimed at watercolorists who might want to try acrylics as well as beginning to intermediate acrylic painters, Jacqueline's book offers ideas and instruction in a popular painting style while encouraging artists to have fun while they create. |
Paint Charming Seaside Scenes with Acrylics 16 gorgeous painting projects - from beautiful sunrises and a romantic walk along the beach, to scenes featuring lobster boats and lighthouses | Step-by-step instruction for painting a wide range of seascape elements including waves, skies, sand dunes, reflections, driftwood, grasses, rocks, sailboats, fishing shacks, pebbly beaches, ocean spray, weather-worn rocks and other realistic textures.
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Achieving Depth & Distance: Painting Landscapes In Oils Included are demonstrations for all seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn, thus addressing how depth of field in the landscape changes during each time of year. Each demo is carefully designed to clearly indicate relative distance within the paintings and learning is made easy through the use of colorful diagrams, reference photos, and eye-catching side-by-side comparisons. |
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