June 29, 2024
Learn to paint in different mediums – oils, watercolours and acrylic or improve your existing skill level.
Painting with Bob Ross: Learn to paint in oil step by step
Everyone will enjoy Painting with Bob Ross, as his “happy accidents” approach makes this challenging subject matter enjoyable for all ages, regardless of skill level and materials used.
Following the introduction are 16 painting projects, each with a complete list of tools and materials needed and instructions for preparing the canvas. Jump into painting with step one, then follow the full-colour painting progressions and clearly written instructions until you’ve reached the final step.
The New Oil Painting by Kimberley Brooks
This instructional handbook is organized into chapters with helpful diagrams throughout illustrating various techniques and tools.
Whether you’re a true beginner or have been painting with oils for years, you will find that this book has everything you need to build a new, thriving, solvent-free practice.
Mastering Composition: Techniques and Principles to Dramatically Improve Your Painting
This effective guide blends clear, visual instruction with 5 step-by-step demonstrations to show you how to plan and paint your best work yet.
Composition is the key, and here you’ll learn to design paintings with new skill and confidence. It all begins with the armature or structure of the picture plane. Every great painting has one, and you’ll see through several famous examples exactly how the Old Masters used armatures to create movement, narrative, harmony and fluidity.
Once you understand the basic principles of design, you’ll be amazed at how quickly and effectively your compositions come together.
Everyday Watercolour
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.
This beautifully illustrated and inspiring guided watercolour-a-day book is perfect for beginning watercolour artists, artists who want to improve their watercolour skills, and visual creatives.
The Art of Watercolor Painting by Thomas Needham
This comprehensive how-to-paint book opens with a thorough introduction to the essential watercolour tools and materials artists need to get started.
It includes paintbrushes, watercolour paints, sketchbooks, papers, and supports. Having discovered a variety of techniques, four expert watercolourists show artists how to put their painting skills to use through simple step-by-step lessons, starting with initial sketches and culminating in final works of art.
Acrylic Painting Mediums and Methods by Rheni Tauchid
Acrylics have grown into the most adaptable art material for the modern age.
Painter and art materials expert Rhéni Tauchid simplifies this daunting subject.
He clearly explains each type of medium and suggesting ways it can enhance your painting practice.
Over twenty step-by-step demonstrations teach you how to apply mediums to create vibrant colours, sensuous surfaces, and striking visual effects. Hundreds of beautiful photos illustrate mediums’ almost limitless potential and show you how other artists – both abstract and realist – are employing mediums to push their art in new creative directions.
If you are a painter of any level and have some advice for other artists, please do get in touch.
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