Product Description: This comprehensive volume provides clear instructions on how to work with watercolors, oils, acrylics, and gouache for artists of all levels of experience.

Product Description: Mastering the art of drawing and painting with step-by-step projects and techniques shown in over 1400 photographs.

Product Description: With gallery examples from professional artists, a range of styles of working and differing perspectives are included throughout.

Product Description: Drawing, sketching and writing skills are beautifully presented and taught in this superbly illustrated practical encyclopedia. Packed full of expert advice, step-by-step projects and practice exercises, this book is perfect for beginners and intermediate artists and calligraphers looking to improve their skills...read more

Product Description: The newest title in this popular series shows both beginners and intermediate artists the secrets of creating beautiful pastel creations. Artists’ commentaries accompany color photographs showing everything from choosing materials and using equipment to building a suitable color, foundation to determining placement for the elements within the artwork...read more

Product Description: All you need to work with acrylics is the brush, the paints, the canvas...and these ten easy lessons! This entry in the popular 10 Steps series features more than 300 photographs and illustrations, and teaches beginners the skills required to create amazing works of art...read more

Product Description: A practical introduction to all aspects of drawing and calligraphy from beginners to intermediates, with full technical instruction and easy-to-follow step-by-step projects.

Product Description: All aspects of drawing are made easy in this comprehensive, fully illustrated step-by-step guide which is packed with expert advice and illustrated with more than 550 colour photographs.

Taking novice painters step by step through the process of creating a still-life painting, this helpful painting tutorial offers instruction in all the essential techniques of working with oils, covering such areas as tonal foundations, blending, glazing, impasto, composition, and finishing techniques. Original.

Product Description: With a little practice and no experience at all, anyone can learn how to draw using this "mini art class," illustrated with over 300 color photographs. Begin by playing and experimenting with materials, from pastels and tinted papers to ink pens and blending stumps...read more

Product Description: A complete course in oil, acrylic and gouache painting techniques, from getting started to advanced levels.

Drawing is an essential skill that introduces the first step into all other visual arts. Beginners start immediately producing accomplished pieces: 38 original, exciting projects that free you to practice and perfect your skills without dreary routine exercises. All major subject areas are covered, from still-lifes and landscapes to animals and life drawings, in a variety of media including charcoals, chalks, pastels, colored pencils, inks, and graphite. Practical advice on technique accompanies each project, with specialized galleries to inspire you. Along the way, you explore many different approaches to figure drawing, including the stages through which the female nude has emerged as a painting subject and how science is transforming the way painters treat human anatomy.

A richly illustrated, simple-to-follow introduction to the art of painting with acrylics presents a series of lessons that helps would-be artists select, use, and maintain their painting tools and media, covering the various types of paint available, surface choices, basic and advanced painting techniques, and more.

Product Description: From graphite pencils and charcoals to soft pastels and crayons the art of drawing encompasses a variety of mediums and techniques all of which are comprehensively covered in this beautiful book.

Product Description: Learn to build confidence and skill level with simple practice exercises step-by step photographic instructions are amazingly easy to follow and copy.

Product Description: A complete teaching course for eatercolor painting techniques for beginners to intermediates.

Presents step-by-step instructions teaching the basics of drawing a variety of landscapes, including mountains, seascapes, and woodlands.

Product Description: This unique, 128-page hardcover book teaches artists how to create a variety of masterful acrylic paintings--from dramatic still lifes to picturesque landscapes. In this innovative method of step-by-step instruction, each stage of every project is accompanied by an isolated view of the painting that shows only the colors applied in that step...read more

Product Description: Covering the three most popular types of painting: watercolours, acrylics and oils, this comprehensive step-by-step guide provides basic information on materials and techniques as well as an exciting series of demonstrations aimed at complete beginners...read more

Demonstrates each of the basic steps for completing ten projects using a variety of different media, including pastel pencils, charcoal, dip pen and ink, graphite pencil, and chalk.

Product Description: Quickly master all the practical aspects of watercolor painting with this comprehensive practical encyclopedia.