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The Art of Trompe L’oeil Murals
Yves Lanthier
North Light Books
North Light Books
Trompe l'oeil murals can turn even the most drab room into a beautiful work of art as enchanting as it is convincing and realistic. Now readers can learn how to capture that magic with The Art of Trompe L'oeil Murals. The author - a master muralist...
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Loose Watercolor
Jerry Mcclish
Hand Books Press
Hand Books Press
Spontaneity, freedom and fun with an undercurrent of control are words that best describe this book. McClish's ability as painter and teacher enables him to make a difficult craft look easy to do. Includes sections on tools, procedures,...
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Hans Hofmann: Revised and Expanded
Sam Hunter
Rizzoli International Publications
Rizzoli International Publications
Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus-not imitation....From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life-all movement and rhythm-time and light, color and mood-in short, all reality in Form and Thought." -Hans...
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Painting Fairies in Watercolour (Fantasy Art)
Paul Bryn Davies
Search Press
Search Press
With step-by-step photographs and detailed instructions, this inspirational guide demonstrates how simple watercolor techniques can be used to create two whimsical fairy paintings. Each stage of design and creation is thoroughly explained,...
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A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic, 1585-1718
Mariet Westermann
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
Newly independent in 1585, the increasingly prosperous and politically powerful Dutch Republic experienced a tremendous rise in the production of artwork that was unparalleled in quantity, variety, and beauty. Now back in print, this classic book...
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Jackson Pollock
Glenn Lowry, Jackson Pollock
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Jackson Pollock is widely considered the most challenging and influential American artist of the 20th century. In his revolutionary paintings of the late 1940s, he dripped paint into complex webs of interlacing lines, rhythmically punctuated by...
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Painting Missouri: The Counties En Plein Air
Karen Glines
University of Missouri Press
University of Missouri Press
With more counties than most other states, Missouri posed a unique challenge for Billyo O'Donnell: an outdoor painting on location en plein air for each of Missouri s 114 counties plus the city of St. Louis. Here are scenes both familiar and...
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