painting

Presents the stories and facts behind many of the world's greatest paintings from early cave drawings to the present day.

Presents information on the traditional art of illumination, offering an overview of the history of illuminated manuscripts, a discussion of the techniques and materials used in creating the elaborate, decorated letters, and step-by-step instructions for re-creating twelve illuminated letters from five historical periods.

Learn to paint a parrot, flowers, a face, or a fish in a waterfall, with complete step-by-step instructions to painting using simple techiniques.

This book shows how to capture on paper, the beauty and power of all sorts of horses and ponies from Shires to Shetlands. It details simple methods for getting the shape and proportions right and tips on different materials and drawing styles, including both black-and-white and color cartoons.

Sister Wendy presents personal reflections and meditations based on works of art from the Renaissance to the present.

"Step-by-step guides show how to create a variety of projects using acrylics, oils, watercolors, and pastels"--Provided by publisher.

Creative Painting of Everyday Subjects is a comphrehensive, authoratative guide to recognizing a good subject when you see one and to rendering it in oil paint. There is additional information on various sketching techniques as well as a chapter on painting with pastels.

This is a book about OIL PAINTING with a more contemporary approach than you will find in most how-to books. Although it is concerned with some of the many ways of mixing and applying pigment to canvas, it is primarily a book on creative pictorial technique, which is the only reason why anybody should learn the mechanics of the painter's craft.

The artist first shows how to paint the techniques of opaque and transparent qualities, wet-into-wet, dry brush, scraping wet paint, texture, impasto, and collage. Then she uses these techniques and more in demonstration paintings of a postage stamp design, a still life, a science theme painting of insects, and a landscpe, explaining how these can be used as exciting cross-curricular projects in the school.