An inspiring and practical guide to crafting the most realistic and artful crepe paper flowers for arrangements, decor, art, wearables and more, from a San Francisco-based botanical paper artist. Paper flowers continue to be a popular trend in the art and craft space.
A guide to portraiture and figure painting in watercolour. Suitable for beginning to intermediate artists, it guides artists through the entire portrait and figure painting process, from selecting the right materials and tools to exhibiting the finished painting.
Through illuminating exercises, this book stimulates ways to think about colour, generating responses that unlock personal creativity and allowing artists to... Læs mere
This instructive volume has been designed to help artists learn to draw by careful emulation of master works. The author methodically analyzes 100 famous drawings... Læs mere
Shows how to draw the basic manga head and body, eyes, fashion and more. This book explores dynamic action poses, special effects, light and shading, perspective, popular manga types such as animals, anthros, shoujo and shounen characters.
Conveys a start-to-finish overview of the drawing experience and shows what to tackle when first starting a drawing and then how to lay the groundwork for each subsequent step in creating a well-crafted drawing.
Landscape painting is one of the most popular subjects for painters working in the medium of oils. In The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting, author and noted... Læs mere
A contemporary paint-every-day watercolour guide that explores foundational strokes and patterns and then builds new skills upon the foundations over the course of 30 days to create finished pieces.
With gorgeously illustrated instructions for both loose and realistic watercolour depictions of more than 25 flowers, 'Everyday Floral Watercolour' is every nature-lover's answer to capturing that beauty on paper.
A showcase of Gregory Heisler's work, one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. From the famously controversial portrait of President George H W Bush... Læs mere
William Maughan demonstrates how to create a realistic human likeness by using the classic and highly accurate modelling technique of chiaroscuro, developed by Leonardo daVinci during the High Renaissance.
A guide to beginning a daily sketch journal by Samantha Dion Baker, a widely followed artist on Instagram