Working with rich oil colors, Iris Scott will show you how to create a simple, brush-free impressionist painting just using your fingers!Leave your brushes behind! Iris Scott's revolutionary finger-painting courses are designed for everyone, especially beginners. Watch your paintings flourish with life when you follow Iris's simple techniques that let the paint do the work. Complete with five masterpieces and clear, step-by-step instructions for...

This well-illustrated guide covers all aspects of painting coastlines and seascapes in oils-a challenge to even the most accomplished artists. Written by a prominent member of Cornwall's St. Ives Society of Artists, it ranges from suggestions for preliminary methods and composition to a complete demonstration in five steps. Additional topics include differences in color of the sea and wave forms, cliffs and island rocks, open sea painting, beach scenes,...

In this irreplaceable guide, award-winning artist and instructor John Pike shares with artists at all levels of experience the expertise gained through a lifetime of perfecting his craft. All the information watercolorists could possibly want is here -- choosing a brush; selecting and composing subject matter; producing a variety of washes, brush strokes, and textures; making corrections; and discovering the properties of common watercolor papers....

Learn how to: make your on-location work easier by using the correct equipment; render an accurate drawing; select and mix colors (and avoid muddy or weak colors); "populate" a scene with incidental figures; create textures; work with saturated colors to get good values; simplify and rework the scene for impact; know when to quit.

"A guide to the materials and safe practices that will take your oil painting practice to new heights--whether you are just starting out, or have been painting for years"-- Provided by publisher.

Artists who work from photographic source material need to learn how to adapt and improve in order to create a successful painting. Geoff Kersey is a master of this way of working, and here he shows how it is done. Reference photographs, colour charts and preparatory sketches are shown alongside all the finished paintings in this book, with full details of the adaptations and creative processes involved. There are plenty of clear tips and advice,...

Whether you have experience drawing or are completely new to it, this exciting workshop-style book provides practical, inspiring, and creative exercises which will expand your drawing skills and provide a framework for integrating illustration with other mixed-media techniques, With a focus on drawing what you love and what is familiar, you will be led through the development of several illustration exercises, which launch from jotted notes and eventually...

The first guide to unify the philosophical and imitative methods of instruction in the art of Chinese painting. The text explains the tools of the art and basic strokes and writing of Chinese characters before moving on to demonstrate the use of these strokes to represent trees, flowers, boats, rocks, insects, others.