In words, color photos, and art renditions this guide provides detailed explanations of art materials and how accomplished artists use them to achieve desired effects in the various media. The emphasis in this book is not on completing a finished watercolor, but on how to select and use the right materials for the right project, along with practical solutions to common artists' problems. Topics are treated in the form of easy-to-follow step-by-step directions. This volume is a valuable reference source, both for the art classroom and for use by self-teaching hobbyists. This guide gives detailed instructions for using both tube and cake watercolors. It explains how they work best when employing both wet and dry paper techniques. There are also descriptions of different brushes, as well as the best ways to use the many related materials watercolor artists will need including inks and pencils, masking tape, sponges, protective sprays, razor blades, and other items. Students are shown how to achieve brushwork control and how to mix colors on paper in this often tricky medium.

Learning to Paint in Watercolor (Barron's Art Guides)

Arts & Photography

Parramon's Editorial Team

Painting

Barrons Educational Series. Inc.

Books in the Learning to Paint series present descriptions of art tools and materials and explain how to use them to achieve professional results. The airbrush is an important tool that is used extensively in four-color commercial art projects, and modern professional art training is not complete until students have mastered airbrush art. Instructions are presented here in the form of eary-to-follow directions, step-by-step full-color illustrations of works in progress, and practical solutions to common problems.

Barron's Art Guide: Learning to Paint : Airbrush (Barron's Art Guides: Learning to Paint)

History & Criticism

B E S Pub Co

Explains the basic techniques of mixing colors for oil painting and provides practical exercises that progress in difficulty

Learning to Paint, Mixing Colors: Oils (Barron's Art Guides: Learning to Paint)

Instruction in this color-illustrated book introduces three of the most commonly used dry media for drawing and sketching. Roughly the first one-third of this art students' manual explains the properties and uses of charcoal, sanguine crayon, and chalk, and demonstrates how to get started with them on art projects. Information here includes recommended papers, ways of making strokes, shading, color blending, tonal range, and correcting mistakes. The book's remaining two-thirds presents a series of 16 practical exercises that employ all three media. Exercises include creating chiaroscuro (shades and shadows), drawing still-lifes and landscapes, mastering perspective, drawing nudes, and making portraits. Here is a practical art class instruction manual that can also be used as a self-teaching book by ambitious amateur artists. Full-color illustrations on nearly every page.

Charcoal, Sanguine Crayon, and Chalk

Study & Teaching

Tools are described and techniques are shown with examples of acrylic paintings in various stages of progress.

Acrylics (Barron's Art Handbooks: Purple Series)

This All About Techniques book illustrates and explains the fundamentals of art theory, then proceeds to step-by-step advice on how to create complete, highly finished artworks. This volume is filled with full-color photos and art illustrations, the latter in some cases showing reproductions of well-known paintings. This book starts with advice on choosing pigments, canvas, and equipment, then instructs on the use of brushes, knives, and other artist's tools. The theory of color and its combinations is treated in detail, and then the art student is guided step-by-step through the creation of landscapes, portraits, nudes, still-lifes, animal illustrations, and more.

All About Techniques in Oil

Ambitious art students, teachers, and hobbyists seeking more comprehensive instruction manuals than "Barron's Art Guides", will find what they're looking for in this substantial book. After covering much of the same material contained in the easier "Art Guides", the "All About Techniques" book illustrates and explains the fundamentals of art theory, then proceeds to step-by-step advice on how to create complete, highly finished artworks. All volumes are filled with full-color photos and art illustrations, the latter in some cases showing reproductions of well-known paintings. Emphasizing paints, materials, brushwork technique, color theory, and the various kinds of paper available to watercolor artists, this volume offers a comprehensive art course, starting with basics, including "tricks of the trade", and ending with instruction on creating highly professional watercolors of a wide variety of different subjects.

All About Techniques in Watercolor

The period most clearly dominated by Baroque tendencies spans the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Baroque works are characterized by a profusion of shapes and dramatic gestures and motions on the part of the people in the paintings. Here is a survey of major Italian, Spanish, and French artists whose works typify the Baroque style.

Baroque Painting (Barron's Art Handbooks: Yellow Series)

Mixing Colors: 2. Oil (Barron's Art Handbooks: Green Series)

Purple Series: Airbrush technique is indispensable for the modern commercial artist and also has many applications in the fine arts. This book shows how to use an airbrush and illustrates airbrush effects. Filled with full-color illustrations.

Airbrush (Barron's Art Handbooks: Purple Series)

Graphic Design

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