Category Archives: Painting

Pencil Drawing: A Beginner’s Guide! Easy Step By Step Tutorials To Learn How To Draw & Sketch! AAA+++

Easy Step-By-Step Lessons – How Would You Like To Teach Yourself Some Of The Powerful Basic Techniques Of Pencil Sketching & Drawing With Our Step-by-Step Tutorial. Learn the ABC of Pencil Drawing From the Experts! The highlights of the art … Continue reading

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Fun Craft Projects: Over 20 Crafts Do To Right In Your Own Home!

This amazing books contains over 20 fun craft projects for you to do right in your own home! Learn how to make homemade beaded candles, holiday gift wrap, many different Halloween costumes, a sunny day window shelf, a terra cotta … Continue reading

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Watercolor Painting For Dummies

Have you ever been amazed by watercolor paintings that seem to spring to life before your eyes? Would you love to be able to paint with watercolors? Now, you can. Watercolor Painting For Dummies shows you the fun and easy … Continue reading

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David Bellamy’s Watercolour Landscape Course: The Bestselling Guide to Successful Landscapes

Structured and practical in approach, this unique resource includes numerous exercises that will help students learn proper painting techniques from the start. An initial introduction addresses the basic aspects of watercolor painting, while later sections challenge artists to develop sketches, … Continue reading

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Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man

This masterly account of Leonardo da Vinci and his vision of the world has long been recognized as the classic treatment of the Renaissance giant, offering unparalleled insight into Leonardo’s intellect and vision at every stage of his artistic career. … Continue reading

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Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, With a New Preface

In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and … Continue reading

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Watercolor Workshop (PRACTICAL ART)

Featuring essential techniques, warm-up exercises and inspiring projects with close-up, step-by-step photography and clear, encouraging text, this book is perfect for those who have always wanted to learn to paint with watercolors but don’t know where to start.

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Prisoners’ Inventions

Imagine that your house spans six by nine feet, your mattress is just two inches thick, you are known to your neighbors by an identification number, and items most consider crucial to everyday existence are outlawed. How do inmates in … Continue reading

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Portraiture (Oxford History of Art)

This fascinating new addition to the acclaimed Oxford History of Art series explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have portraits … Continue reading

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Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

Pictures and Tears is a strange and wonderful investigation into paintings and the emotions they evoke. In past centuries, viewers were often moved by paintings. Fourth-century Greek painting depicted people in states of extreme grief, so that the viewer might … Continue reading

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