The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted: Guided Lessons for Beginners and Experienced Artists
The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted: Guided Lessons for Beginners and Experienced Artists
In The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted, author Kathleen Staiger presents crystal clear, step-by-step lessons that build to reinforce learning. Brush control, creating the illusion of three dimensions, foolproof color mixing, still-life painting, landscapes, and portraits--every topic is covered in clear text, diagrams, illustrations, exercises, and demonstrations. Staiger has taught oil painting for more than thirty-five years; many of her students are now exhibiting and selling their paintings. Everyone from beginning hobby painters, to art students, to BFA graduates has questions about oil painting. Here at last are the answers!
- ASIN: 0823032590
- ISBN: 0823032590
- Brand: Watson-Guptill Publications
- Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
Daily Painting: Paint Small and Often To Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Artist
Daily Painting: Paint Small and Often To Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Artist
A unique system for jump-starting artistic creativity, encouraging experimentation and growth, and increasing sales for artists of all levels, from novices to professionals. Have you landed in a frustrating rut? Are you having trouble selling paintings in galleries, getting bogged down by projects you can’t seem to finish or abandon, or finding excuses to avoid working in the studio? Author Carol Marine knows exactly how you feel—she herself suffered from painter’s block, until she discovered “daily painting.” The idea is simple: do art (usually small) often (how often is up to you), and if you’d like, post and sell it online. Soon you’ll find that your block dissolves and you’re painting work you love—and more of it than you ever thought possible! With her encouraging tone and useful exercises, Marine teaches you to: -Master composition and value -Become confident in any medium including oil painting, acrylic painting, watercolors, and other media -Choose subjects wisely -Stay fresh and loose -Photograph, post, and sell your art online -Become connected to the growing movement of daily painters around the world
- ASIN: 0770435335
- ISBN: 0770435335
- Brand: Watson-Guptill
- Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
Best of the Joy of Painting
Best of the Joy of Painting
It's Bob Ross. The man with the gentle voice who can paint a landscape in thirty minutes right before your very eyes in your own living room.Reaching millions of homes every day, Bob Ross is unquestionably America's favorite art instructor. Now avaiable in paperback, The Best of the Joy of Painting -- Bob Ross's first book -- contains sixty of his favorite paintings, all of them originally created during the Joy of Painting show.Each painting comes complete with a full-color photo and a series of black-and-white instructional photos, accompanied by step-by-step instructions that guide you through the painting process. With this book in hand, you will be amazed at the ease and skill with which you can create your own Bob Ross original.
- UPC: 884618216974
- ASIN: 0688143547
- ISBN: 0688143547
- Brand: Martin & F. Weber
- Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks
The Oil Painting Book: Materials and Techniques for Today's Artist (Watson-Guptill Materials and Techniques)
The Oil Painting Book: Materials and Techniques for Today's Artist (Watson-Guptill Materials and Techniques)
Without equal anywhere in print today, this is the most complete guide to oil painting materials, and how to use them to derive best results from the medium.
- UPC: 884761725231
- ASIN: 0823032744
- ISBN: 9780823032747
- Brand: Brand: Watson-Guptill
- Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting: Techniques for Rendering Sky, Terrain, Trees, and Water
The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting: Techniques for Rendering Sky, Terrain, Trees, and Water
A landscape painting guide for oil painters that breaks landscapes down into component elements from nature, and showcases tools and techniques used by classic and modern oil painters for bringing these scenes to life. Landscape painting is one of the most popular subjects for painters working in the medium of oils--from classic masters to contemporary artists. In The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting, established Watson-Guptill author and noted instructor/painter Suzanne Brooker presents the fundamentals necessary for mastering landscape oil painting, breaking landscapes down into component parts: sky, terrain, trees, and water. Each featured element builds off the previous, with additional lessons on the latest brushes, paints, and other tools used by artists. Key methods like observation, rendering, and color mixing are supported by demonstration paintings and samples from a variety of the best landscape oil painters of all time. With The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting, oil painters looking to break into landscape painting or enhance their work will find all the necessary ingredients for success.
- UPC: 884461793141
- ASIN: 0804137552
- ISBN: 0804137552
- Brand: Watson-Guptill Publications
- Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
Oil Painting For The Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Oil Painting (Art for the Absolute Beginner)
Oil Painting For The Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Oil Painting (Art for the Absolute Beginner)
The quick-start guide to great results!Oil painting doesn't have to be rocket science, although some books on the subject make it seem that way. Filled with encouraging, easy-to-follow instruction, Oil Painting for the Absolute Beginner is a no-fear, no-experience-required guide to enjoyable painting and happy results. Focusing on the needs of the first-time painter, this book covers everything from selecting brushes and setting up your palette to key principles of color and composition, presented in a way that moves you confidently from first strokes to finished paintings.Mini demonstrations break down fundamental painting techniques in a clear, common sense way12 step-by-step painting projects progress from simple landscapes, still life and flower paintings to more challenging subjects, such as animals, seascapes and portraitsThe bonus DVD-workshop features the author creating two paintings from start to finishYou'll learn tricks for keeping the greens in your landscapes looking fresh, advantages to working with water-soluble oil paints, simple tips for dynamic compositions and other expert advice to make your introduction to oil painting the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
- UPC: 499991614103
- ASIN: 1600617840
- ISBN: 1600617840
- Brand: Northlight
- Manufacturer: North Light Books
Painting Abstracts: Ideas, Projects and Techniques
Painting Abstracts: Ideas, Projects and Techniques
Clear, challenging and inspiring, this book contains instructions for 65 abstract paintings that you can get to work on straightaway, with no previous experience. All the basic information relating to picture elements, composition, theme and design is provided at the start of the book, together with an exploration of the meaning of abstract painting, and its importance as a means of self-expression and creativity. Rather than providing step-by-step instructions, each of the exercises consists of information on method, materials, technique, composition, imagery and structure which will direct you to the finished piece while at the same time allowing your creativity to flow.
- ASIN: 1844483363
- ISBN: 1844483363
- Brand: Search Press
- Manufacturer: Search Press
Oil Painting Essentials: Mastering Portraits, Figures, Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Interiors
Oil Painting Essentials: Mastering Portraits, Figures, Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Interiors
An essential guide to the oil painting techniques that will allow artists to master a variety of subjects, including figures, portraits, still life, landscapes, and interiors.Many painters limit themselves to one type of subject matter, but in Oil Painting Essentials, artist and art instructor Gregg Kreutz shows how a multi-genre approach can dramatically improve your painting skills. Arranged by category, each chapter covers both the essentials specific to that subject matter and those that apply to all genres. Through step-by-step lessons and examples from his own oil paintings, Kreutz shows how you can strengthen your skillset for one genre by painting in another. This comprehensive exploration of the conceptual and practical issues behind oil painting provides all of the tools and encouragement you need to successfully take on any type of oil painting.
- ASIN: 0804185433
- ISBN: 0804185433
- Brand: Penguin Random House
- Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
Brushwork for the Oil Painter
Brushwork for the Oil Painter
Close-ups of subtle brushwork details and reproductions of complete paintings illustrate an examination of the expressive qualities of different strokes and techniques for depicting such objects as rocks, water, snow, skies, and trees
- ASIN: 0823005267
- ISBN: 0823005267
- Brand: Brand: Watson-Guptill Pubns
- Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Pubns
Foundations of Classical Oil Painting: How to Paint Realistic People, Landscapes and Still Life
Foundations of Classical Oil Painting: How to Paint Realistic People, Landscapes and Still Life
Professional painting instructor Lea Colie Wight demystifies the formulaic process of oil painting into a simple approach to help you paint confidently and accurately in full color. Develop a core foundational skill set to develop your paintings and discover a signature way of working from life that can be applied to figure painting, portraits, landscapes and still life. Though the focus is on oils, the methods in this book can be applied to all painting mediums including as acrylic, pastel and watercolor.Informative lessons and simple exercises help to build confidence and lay the foundations for successful oil paintingLearn a straightforward system for painting realistically with a focus on accurate color.4 full-length step-by-step demonstrations show how to paint a figure, a portrait, a still life and a landscape
- UPC: 035313669644
- ASIN: 1440352429
- ISBN: 9781440352423
- Brand: North Light Books
- Manufacturer: North Light Books