Author: Shaunna Russell
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
ISBN: 1633228088
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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Discover how to create vibrant, colorful watercolor paintings of a range of animals! With Colorways: Watercolor Animals, learn to paint all your favorite animals, from an elephant and a whale to a dog, cat, fish, and more. Each step-by-step demonstration shows not only how to capture the animal’s likeness, but also how to use color to create magical, otherworldly, and whimsical paintings. In these tutorials, you will also learn how to use watercolor paint to suggest texture and fur on your animal subjects. Along the way, you will find technique instruction and tips for using different types of strokes, working with various brush shapes and sizes and using washes and underpaintings. The Colorways series teaches artists of all skill levels how to employ color across a variety of media in unique and imaginary ways to create innovative and inspired artwork. Focusing less on realistic artistic representations and more on creating expressive art, this series invites you to break the standard rules of color and let your imagination and artwork soar to new heights in order to create unconventional, whimsical, and fanciful works of art. Learn the customary rules of color, and then bypass them, with the help of Colorways: Watercolor Animals, a book that encourages you to use color for interpretive means and personal expression while painting your favorite animals.
Author: Bley Hack
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
ISBN: 1633226131
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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Colorways: Watercolor Flowers teaches artists of all skill levels how to paint harmonious, vibrant, and colorful renditions of flora. Calling all aspiring artists! Grab your paints because it's time to explore key watercolor techniques, including washes, gradations, painting wet-into-wet, glazing, and understanding the color wheel to create harmony in your art. With Colorways: Watercolor Flowers, you will create vibrant and colorful floral paintings while mastering how to use color for maximum effect. You'll also learn where to find artistic inspiration, how to become a “visual collector,” and how to add fauna to your floral paintings. While step-by-step instructions are included for some flower varieties, most projects offer inspiration and tips that allow for personalization using mixed-media techniques, as opposed to a specific template to follow. You can learn to stamp, use tissue paper, create monograms, and collage using the gorgeous artwork and instructions in this book. Colorways is a new series from Walter Foster that teaches artists of all skill levels how to create innovative, inspired artwork full of color and imagination. Focusing on creating expressive pieces over realistic scenes, Colorways shows artists how to break the "rules" of color and let their imaginations and artwork soar to new heights. For more fun books in the Colorways series, also check out Acrylic Animals and Watercolor Animals.
Author: Megan Wells
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
ISBN: 1633226158
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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Colorways: Acrylic Animals teaches artists of all skill levels how to paint vibrant, colorful renditions of animals from around the globe. Grab your paints, canvas, and imagination because it's time to paint pointillistic pandas, tetradic llamas, vibrant flamingos, and complementary cows...and that's just the beginning! Each step-by-step project in Colorways: Acrylic Animals shows you not only how to capture an animal’s likeness, but also how touse color to create magical, other-worldly, and whimsical paintings. You'll also learn how to use acrylic paint to add texture and fanciful flourishes, like florals and collage, to your glorious animal subjects. The Colorways series from Walter Foster teaches artists of all skill levels how to create innovative, inspired artwork that's full of color and imagination. Focusing on creating expressive pieces over realistic scenes, Colorways shows artists how to break the "rules" of color and let their imaginations and artwork soar to new heights. In the Colorways series, flamingos are green, giraffes boast multicolored spots, and raccoons feature blue undertones. For more fun books in the Colorways series, check out Watercolor Flowers and Watercolor Animals.
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 1666
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Author: Sarah Coffin
Publisher: Cooper Hewitt
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Flamboyant. Ornamental. Unconventional. An unprecedented exploration into Rococo style. Rococo: The Continuing Curve, which accompanies a major exhibition opening March 2008 at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, is a groundbreaking work exploring the sensuous and organic rococo style and its many revivals (such as art nouveau) from the early eighteenth century up to the present day in multiple fields, including furniture, decorative arts, prints, drawings, and textiles. More than 300 lavish full-colour illustrations and more than a dozen original essays chart the progress of the styles as it radiated from master craftsmen in Paris throughout France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and other European countries, and later crossed the Atlantic to the United States. AUTHOR: Rococo: The Continuing Curve is organized by Sarah Coffin, head of the product design and decorative arts department. Gail Daidson, head of drawings, prints, and graphic design department. Guest curator Penelope Hunter-Stiebel. Ellen Lupton, is curator of contemporary design. 300 illustrations
Author: Kiley Busko
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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If you are one of many that feels like learning how to paint animals is next to impossible, look no further than these gorgeous art projects that have a start-to-finish time of 30 minutes! Now you can remove any and all intimidation when it comes to watercolor painting and capture the wonderous world of wildlife with these striking tutorials designed especially for beginners. Known for her animal artwork throughout her many social media platforms, artist Kiley Busko has created easy-to-follow projects that showcase all types of animals, both wild and domestic. With the additional element of templates for easy tracing, readers will be able to create gorgeous watercolor masterpieces in record time. Allow your watercolor brush to take flight with the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. Take a calming walk with the White-Tailed Deer Fawn. Find an animal companion in the Border Collie. Bring the majestic Great Blue Heron to life. With added tips and tricks for painting various types of animal features along with fundamentals on creating texture and paint consistency, this is a must-have watercolor book for beginner artists and animal lovers.
Author: IglooBooks
Publisher: Igloo Books
ISBN: 9781801086776
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Discover a fresh, all-in-one introduction to modern watercolors, with this beginner's guide to all the essential techniques, plus 25 beautiful scenes to paint. Follow the simple, step-by-step instructions to learn everything from brush positions to blending colors, and adding fine detail. Use the brush and palette to apply your new skills across 25 pull-out pages of gorgeous animal illustrations. Set includes 8 watercolor paints and paintbrush.
Author: Brian Wildsmith
Publisher: Star Bright Books
ISBN: 9781595727176
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Brian Wildsmith introduces children to the wonderful variety of color in the animal world, and at the same time teaches them the names of colors.
Author: Amarilys Henderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 0760370745
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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From author, licensed artist, and popular online instructor Amarilys Henderson, Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Animals shows readers at all skill levels how to draw and paint animals in a variety of mediums and styles.
Author: Katie McGee
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
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This book offers 25 outline animal pictures for kids to paint. It's helpful with drawing. All you do is paint! This is a fun and easy way to get into a creative flow and wash away stress. It easy to work on any surface, while single-sided removable pages are perfect for easily sharing or displaying finished pieces.
