Books and Media - Painting Books

Margot Shulzke asked award-winning artists to share notable insights and practical advice for making a painting succeed whatever the subject. Learn the rules of design passed down from artist to artist, and how to create your own style.

Abstract Painting Concepts and Techniques takes the artist through the history and exact methods of abstract works in two clear, comprehensive sections, covering both traditional abstract works and post-painterly modern abstraction. The first

Packed with insightful solutions to common drawing and watercolor problems, this comprehensive handbook is the ultimate go-to guide for anyone struggling to improve their work. Artist Trudy Friend shares techniques for a wide range of popular themes.

Barron's Beginner Art Guides are substantial books that pack in lots of information at a value price. Each provides a series of projects, presented in order of difficulty, and supplemented with practical suggestions, ideas, and techniques.

Most artists are not fully aware of the influence the quality of their brush has on the work they create. This authoritative book will make sure watercolorists, oil painters, and acrylic painters never have to ask, "Which brush should I choose?"

Brushwork Essentials Book teaches the artist how to use different brushstrokes to achieve specific effects, such as lighting, shadowing, and more.

Color: Creative Painting is the second volume in Barron's new art instruction series that focuses on creating finished, professional-looking paintings.

This guide addresses the popular goal of watercolor and oil painters alike—achieving stunning, light-filled paintings. It includes step-by-step demonstrations on seeing and painting the elusive quality of light—making paintings glow.

Form — Creative Painting focuses on several different approaches to creating imaginative, finished, highly professional paintings. There are vivid and instructive color illustrations on every page. For use by advanced students and experienced amateurs.

Hooked on Painting! is an instructional resource that provides 67 illustrated lessons for grades 4+, illustrated with paintings by students and professionals, presented in an easy-to-follow format to help students master the art of painting and design.

Line: Creative Painting is a volume in Barron's art instruction series that focuses on showing various ways in which line art is employed to render still lifes, landscapes, portraits, and human forms.

Ideas, techniques, and examples presented in this book and bonus DVD show and tell dozens of ways to strengthen your painting in any medium, and create compositionally successful paintings in the process.

The New Artist’s Manual from Chronicle Books takes the top lessons from the best-selling Artist’s Manual and adds in new material. It’s a wonderful introduction to many different mediums and how to use them, including oils paints and watercolor.

Whether you want to sharpen your painting skills, experiment with new mediums, or paint for the very first time, this book has everything you need to begin, develop, and perfect your art.

Mark David Gottsegen, chairman of the ASTM committee on Artist's Materials is the author of this amazing painter’s reference. More than just another guide to art materials, The Painter’s Handbook offers information on all materials from the canvas up.

This book details each step in the process of Christophe Drochon’s hyper-realistic technique that yields realistic wildlife paintings — from initial quick life sketches to more detailed, painstaking studio work.

Nothing creates a stronger sense of "life" in wildlife art than realistic textures. In this book, wildlife artists offer ways to paint fur, feathers, and other realistic wildlife textures in a variety of mediums, including acrylics, oils, and watercolors.

Learn all the tricks and techniques you need to perform "magic" with paint! This book offers 10 step-by-step projects designed help you master composition, design, perspective, value, color, and atmosphere.

Space – the final frontier. Discover how to capture and create the partly real, partly imagined vistas of outer space. A distinguished astronomical artist, author Michael Carroll explains how to paint water, ice, rocks, craters, alien skies, and more.

Space: Creative Painting concentrates on approaches to creating the illusion of using shape on flat surfaces. It includes a review of the rules of perspective as employed in traditional landscapes and cityscapes, and also focuses on the absence of depth.

Turn your photos into beautiful paintings using just a bew basic techniques. 40 step-by-step demonstrations cover the most popular mediums, including watercolor, oil, acrylic, and pastel, from a range of artistic perspectives.

Each how-to paperback book is an introduction to a basic drawing and painting technique. Step-by-step instructions also cover the gamut of subjects, from animals to people of the world in pencil. (Walter Foster).

The books in this series have helped many students expand their creativity, overcome technical obstacles, and explore new media. Each book focuses on the materials and methods of a specific medium, and provides step-by-step demonstrations, helpful tip

The convenient carryall case opens like a hardcover book. Inside are all the tools needed to explore the ancient art of Chinese brush painting. A full-color, 32-page project book covers everything from calligraphy to brush techniques and color mixing.