American Artist Guide to Painting Techniques is one of the most thorough and complete painting techniques guides available. With such valuable and timeless content, this book is the must-have manual for all painters from the complete novice to the most seasoned of experts.

An easy-to-navigate resource, this book provides clear instruction, new painting ideas, and time-honored methods with encyclopedic detail for any artist picking up a brush.

Inside you'll find 45 painting techniques — from oil frottage to wax resists — with specific details for using each of the techniques with oil, acrylic, watercolor, and pastels. As a bonus, readers also discover how to apply these techniques to subjects of particular difficulty such as animals, seascapes, faces, and more.

Ideal for beginning painters, American Artist Guide to Painting Techniques offers seemingly endless painting possibilities and helpful hints. However, more experienced painters are sure to enjoy having such a thorough, reliable, and easy-to-navigate reference in their studio.

Hazel Harrison is a practicing artist who studied painting at the Guildford School of Art and the Royal Academy of Painting in London.

Elizabeth Tate is a practicing artist who studied art history at Sheffield Polytechnic, then spent several years painting in Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, and Germany.

Authors — Hazel Harrison and Elizabeth Tate.

Paperback. 208 pages. 8¾" × 8¾" (22 cm × 22 cm).