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Putting People in Your Paintings
Laurel Hart
North Light Books
North Light Books
Clear Instruction from an Award-Winning Artist *No other book provides such clear instruction for putting people into paintings *Watercolor and people is a can't-miss combo--the most popular medium with the most popular subject matter! A lot of...
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Oil Painting For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))
Anita M. Giddings, Sherry S. Clifton
For Dummies
For Dummies
Packed with FULL COLOR, easy-to-complete projects The fun and easy way to discover your inner artist through oil painting! Have you always wanted to paint with oil? Now you can! This friendly guide gives you all the hands-on...
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Delicious: The Art and Life of Wayne Thiebaud
Susan Goldman Rubin
Chronicle Books
Chronicle Books
One of the giants of American art, Wayne Thiebaud was at first unappreciated because of the everyday subject matter of his paintings. His tasty hot dogs, delectable cakes, dizzy streets, and sleepy deltas have since become icons of twentieth century...
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Color Mixing Recipes
Walter Foster
Walter Foster
Walter Foster
This practical resource explains the basic of color theory and demonstrates how to mix more than 450 colors for oil and acrylic painting. The book includes a Color Mixing Grid for accurate paint measurement.
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Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green
Michael Wilcox
School of Color Publishing
School of Color Publishing
Artists, designers, printers, and crafters alike would agree that the selection and use of color is of great importance to their work. And yet, a great deal of misunderstanding surrounds color mixing. Michael Wilcox offers a total reassessment for...
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The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Penguin Classics)
Vincent Van Gogh
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
This thorough collection of van Gogh's letters has been assembled with an artful eye and sensitivity to the artist's thinking. The result is an atypical take on Vincent van Gogh that avoids putting too much stress on his troubled mental state and...
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The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent
Carl Little
University of California Press
University of California Press
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) stands among the greatest of watercolor painters, along with J.M.W. Turner, Winslow Homer, and other masters of this difficult medium. Watercolor was more than a distraction from the portrait and mural commissions...
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The Painter in Oil
Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
Dover Publications
Dover Publications
This four-part treatment encompasses materials, general principles, technical principles, and practical applications. Topics include canvases, easels, brushes, paints, and other tools; attitudes and originality; drawing, perspective, light and...
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