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MisterArt.com Hompage Categories in The Academy's Store Watercolor Paint Sets Paper Tubes, Pencils, Crayons Brushes Accessories Books Oil & Acrylic Oil Paint Sets Acrylic Paint Sets Canvas & Accessories Easels Brushes Mediums Books Crafts Candle Making Book Binding Woodworking Model Making Doll & Jewelry Glass Art Scrapbooking Metal Tooling Other Paint-by-Number Sets Unique Coloring Books Activity Kits/Games Books & Videos Enrich your life with an art magazine Featured Products from MisterArt.com... Watson-Guptill Oil Painting Basics Oil Painting Basics: An Artist's Guide to Mastering the Medium Packed with handy tips and solutions to common problems, this easy-to-use guide works through the basics of oil painting. Helpful chapters on materials and techniques plus step-by-step instructions for more than 10 full-scale works show how to produce impressive oil paintings simply and with flair. Timothy Easton's inspiring examples and concise explanations show how to capture a rich diversity of subjects from jaunty boating scenes to luminous fields of irises. With this book, you can practice basic techniques including scumbling, dry brushwork and impasto, learn how to structure your composition using perspective and linear movement, discover how to paint details from nature, and express the different light effects of shadows, reflections and highlights. Paperback book measures 7 3/8 in. x 9 3/4 in., 76 pages, 25 black and white illustrations, and 76 color illustrations. ISBN 0823027120. Watson-Guptill. Watson-Guptill Oil Painting For the Serious Beginner Oil Painting For the Serious Beginner Develop from a serious beginner into a dedicated professional artist. If looking at wonderful paintings fills you with desire to create your own, this book is for you. Practical, step-by-step instruction and fully illustrated demonstrations are provided. You will learn how to: select paint, canvas, brushes, other materials; practice good drawing skills, mix color ranges, design vital compositions; tone canvas, sketch and block in your subject, achieve painterly brushwork; depict strong still lifes and interiors, arrange good lighting effects for both; and choose the best landscape settings, handle perspective, capture natural light. Paperback, 200 full-color illustrations, 144 pages.ISBN:823032698. WATSON-GUPTILL Dover Figure Painting in Oil Figure Painting in Oil Painting the nude is crucial to the education and experience of the artist. In this handy, well-written guide, noted artist and teacher Douglas R. Graves shows you how to paint the nude figure in an easy-to-follow series of 24 fully illustrated projects. Beginning with a survey of necessary materials and equipment, the author goes on to discuss anatomy, proportion and the utilization of hues, tones and values in a figure painting. He then focuses on how to paint each major part of the body: arms, head, hands, legs, feet and torso from front to back. Over 190 illustrations, 33 of them in full color, combine with the author's simple, direct style and specific step-by-step instructions to offer an exciting and informative guide to painting to painting the figure in oils. Paperback, 156 pages.ISBN:048629322X. DOVER Watson-Guptill Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Oil Painting Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Oil Painting In this treasure trove you'll find an overview of the tools and materials of oil painting, along with advice about color palette, color mixing, and applied color theory. You'll learn about preparing a canvas, designing a composition, direct painting, scumbling, blending, layering, glazing, impasto, monotyping and more. Let the experts show you the most effective ways to work with light and shadow, model forms, handle values, and achieve color harmony, as well as how to develop ideas and solve common painting problems. This book has something for everyone, from the greenest novice to the more experienced painter HardCover, 256 pages.ISBN:823016064. WATSON-GUPTILL Bob Ross Joy Of Painting Books Discover the Joy of Painting Each Bob Ross book is carefully detailed with step-by-step instructions and full color paintings, based on the PBS oil painting TV series, "The Joy of Painting". Each volume contains an introduction that includes sections covering paints, mixing colors, palette, brushes, brush cleaning, palette knives, easels, canvas, and how-to-photos. In addition, instructions for completing over a dozen paintings are included in each book. Discover the Joy of Painting, The Best of Joy of Painting, More Joy of Painting, and The New Joy of Painting are authored by Annette Kowalski; several of these books include some of her paintings in the Bob Ross style as well as Bob Ross originals. Paintings included are as follows:Volume II - Meadow Lake, Winter Sun, Ebony Sea, Shades of Grey, Autumn Splendor, Black River, Brown Mountain, Reflections, Black & White Seascape, Lazy River, Black Waterfall, Mountain Waterfall and Final Grace.Volume III - Mountain Retreat, Blue Moon, Bubbling Stream, Winter Night, Distant Hills, Covered Bridge, Quiet Inlet, Night Light, The Old Mill, Campfire, Rustic Barn, Hidden Lake, and Peaceful Waters.Volume IV - Purple Splendor, Tranquil Valley, Majestic Mountains, Winter Sawscape, Evening Seascape, Warm Summer Day, Cabin in the Woods, Wetlands, Cool Waters, Quiet Woods, Northwest Majesty, Autumn Days, and Mountain Challenge.Volume IX - Winter Evergreens, Surf's Up, Red Sunset, Meadow Road, Winter Oval, Secluded Beach, Forest Hills, Little House-by-the-Road, Mountain Path, Country Charm, Nature's Paradise, Mountain by-the-Sea, and Mountain Hide-Away.Volume X - Towering Peaks, Cabin at Sunset, Twin Falls, Secluded Bridge, Ocean Breeze, Autumn Woods, Winter Solitude, Golden Sunset, Mountain Oval, Ocean Sunset, Triple View, Winter Frost, and Lakeside Cabin.Best of The Joy of Painting - Golden Knoll, Mountain Reflections, Secluded Lake, Secluded Beach, Mountain River, Country Cabin, Mountain Splendor, Daisy Delight, Golden Sunset, Peaceful Haven, Winter Oval, The Old Mill, Mountain Stream, Warm Winter Day, Dock Scene, Emerald Waters, Oval Essence, Winter Hideaway, Arctic Beauty, Cabin at Sunset, Hidden Creek, Sunset Oval, Winter Solitude, Hidden Stream, Misty Forest Oval, Barn at Sunset, Evening Waterfall, Shades of Gray, Blue River, Mounain Hideaway, Happy Accident, Lonely Retreat, A Walk in the Woods, Quiet Inlet, Majestic Pine, Towering Glacier, Night Light, Winter Mountain, Wetlands, Roadside Barn, Soft Mountain Glow, Cabin in the Woods, Mountain at Sunset, Covered Bridge, Quiet Woods, Mountain Oval, Black Seascape, Purple Splendor, Mountain Cabin, Winter Mist, Mountain Challenge, Dark Waterfall, Northern Lights, Winter Cabin, Mountain Glory, Bright Autumn Trees, Oval Barn, Majestic Mountains, High Chateau, and Mountain-By-The-Sea.More Joy of Painting - Frosty Winter Morn, Valley of Tranquility, Mountain Seclusion, New Day's Dawn, By-The-Sea, Hazy Day, Deep Woods, Royal Majesty, At Dawn's Light, Grandpa' Walter Foster Artists' Library How To Series painting in oil Serious instruction for serious artists. The books in this series can help both beginning and advanced artists expand their creativity, conquer technical obstacles, and investigate new media. Each book explores the materials and methods of a specific medium and includes step-by-step demonstrations, helpful tips, and comprehensive instructions. The quality of instruction in the series is unsurpassed. Each book is written and illustrated by a well-known artist specializing in that medium and uniquely qualified to guide the reader to a new level of expertise. Walter Foster Animals How To Series painting horses in oil These titles contain fascinating techniques to help you achieve realism in your renderings of animals - detailed studies of skeletal and muscle structures, fur and feather makeup, sequence drawings that demonstrate animals in motion, close up analysis of animal expressions, examples of the animals natural habitats - and more Paperback. Barron's All About Techniques in Oils All About Techniques in Oils This book begins with advice on choosing pigments, canvas, and equipment, then shows you how to use brushes, knives, and other artists' tools. You'll come to understand the theory of color and its combinations, then be guided step by step in creating landscapes, portraits, nudes, still lifes, animal illustrations and more. HardCover, 144 pages.ISBN:764150456. BARRON'S Dover Oil Portraits Step by Step Oil Portraits Step by Step This instructive, profusely illustrated guide provides students with valuable lessons on how to paint beautiful, realistic oil portraits. In an informative introduction, noted artist and teacher Wendon Blake explains clearly and effectively how to handle oil paints. Topics discussed include drying time, basic techniques, composition, lighting and drawing, and colors and mediums. He devotes six chapters to painting heads and facial features. Guidance on planning, composing, and lighting the portrait precedes brief discussions about oil sketching and drawing with pencil, charcoal and chalk. Portrait painter George Passantino has aptly illustrated the volume with 64 black-and-white and 57 full-color illustrations, which serve as step-by-step guides to painting a variety of male and female subjects. Examples include a blonde man, blonde woman, red-haired woman, dark-haired man and woman, African-American man, and an Asian woman. This inspiring and thoughtfully presented guide will be invaluable to art students and to anyone in search of a practical and easy-to-follow instruction manual brimming with expert advice and helpful hints. Paperback, 64 pages.ISBN:486402797. DOVER There is a lot more at MisterArt.com The MisterArt Main Page

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