Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials

Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials
Author: Walter Foster Creative Team
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1633226972
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Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials covers all drawing media, from graphite and colored pencils to crayons and pastels, as well as their uses and interactions with traditional drawing surfaces. Learn how to work with specific drawing tools, and then use them to create your own artwork. Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials first discusses how to create a drawing workspace—in particular, ensuring proper lighting and storage. This guide then details all of the most popular drawing media: the differences between and advantages of each, their purposes, and the effects that each tool can create. The book covers every drawing tool, including all pencil grades, flat sketching pencils, charcoal and vine charcoal, white charcoal, conte crayons, conte pencils, colored pencils, and pastel. Surfaces and supports are discussed as well to provide a thorough introduction to everything you need to learn to draw. Step-by-step drawing projects round out the book. Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials provides tips, techniques, clear instructions, beautiful artwork, and detailed demonstrations for a comprehensive look at drawing. This book will make an expert out of anyone who wants to learn this classic technique. The Artist Toolbox series includes useful, practical reference guides designed for beginning artists and art hobbyists interested in fully understanding the focus and function of essential art tools of the trade.

Artist Toolbox: Painting Tools & Materials

Artist Toolbox: Painting Tools & Materials
Author: Walter Foster Creative Team
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2017-12-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1633224562
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Artist Toolbox: Painting Tools & Materials is an easy-to-use guide which focuses on teaching you the fundamentals of working with paint and the tools that come with it. In Artist Toolbox: Painting Tools & Materials, artists will discover the important differences in brush styles, sizes, shapes, and types; how each brush is used to create different types of strokes; and how different types of brushes interact with various paints and supports. You will learn how to properly load brushes with paint, how to shape brushes to create specific strokes and effects, when to choose synthetic hair over natural hair, and much more. Experienced art instructors focus on the key concepts and practical aspects of working with specific tools, materials, and mediums to impart a complete understanding for those seeking to learn the fundamentals of painting. The Artist Toolbox series provides easy-to-use reference guides for beginning and aspiring artists. While many instructional art books gloss over important concepts, focusing instead on how to replicate a piece of art, the Artist Toolbox series breaks down the whats, whens, whys, and hows of each relevant tool or technique, clearly demonstrating its purpose and how to employ it to achieve your desired effects.

Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports

Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports
Author: Elizabeth T. Gilbert
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1633226085
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Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports explores a wide range of drawing and painting surfaces and the unique effects they have on a variety of media. The surface you draw or paint on impacts everything in your artwork, from its texture and brightness to color and durability. Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports covers the drawing and painting surfaces and supports that all artists should know. With this art book, you'll learn the basics and finer points of working on: Canvas Paper Panels Textiles Metal Glass Stone You'll also learn useful tips and techniques for preparing supports to receive media, see how to work with different media on each support, and discover the most effective way to protect your finished artwork. Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports is packed with visual examples, step-by-step tutorials, and demonstrations on the practical aspects of working with graphite and colored pencils;charcoal and pastel;and watercolor, acrylic, and oilpaints. With this reference guide that no artist's library should be without, you can also learn how each support will take a medium. The Artist Toolbox series presents practical reference guides designed for beginning artists interested in fully understanding the focus and function of essential art tools of the trade.

Artist's Toolbox: Painting Tools & Materials

Artist's Toolbox: Painting Tools & Materials
Author: Walter Foster Creative Team
Publisher: Walter Foster
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2017-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1633222829
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Discover the essential tools, materials, and techniques needed to get started in painting. The Artist's Toolbox series provides easy-to-use reference guides for beginning and aspiring artists. While many instructional art books gloss over important concepts, focusing instead on how to simply replicate a piece of art, the Artist's Toolbox series breaks down the whats, whens, whys, and hows of each relevant tool or technique, clearly demonstrating its purpose and how to employ it to achieve desired effects. In Painting Tools & Materials, artists will discover the important differences in brush styles, sizes, shapes, and types; how each brush is used to create different types of strokes; and how different types of brushes interact with various paints and supports. Artists will learn how to properly load brushes with paint, how to shape brushes to create specific strokes and effects, when to choose synthetic-hair over natural-hair, and much more. Experienced art instructors focus on the key concepts and practical aspects of working with specific tools, materials, and mediums to impart a complete understanding for those seeking to learn the fundamentals of painting.

Success in Art: Drawing Hands and Feet

Success in Art: Drawing Hands and Feet
Author: Walter Foster Creative Team
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1633228568
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Ready to take your drawing skills to the next level? Success in Art: Drawing Hands and Feet allows beginning artists to master the challenges of rendering realistic hands and feet. Drawing realistic hands and feet in graphite pencil is a challenging subject for most beginners. With Drawing Hands and Feet, follow along as you study the common forms of the fingers and toes and learn to create and meld basic shapes to build realistic final art. Discover how light and shadow play an important part in creating muscle definition, expression, and realism. Understand the effect of perspective when choosing and rendering a pose. Drawing Hands and Feet encourages artists to master the individual parts of the form—the pose, structure, values, and shading—before approaching the composition as a whole. More than a basic step-by-step drawing guide, the Success in Art series focuses on subject matter that is often challenging for artists, regardless of skill level. From highly foundational art concepts, such as proportion and perspective, light and shadow, and composition to mastering textures and the human figure, Success in Art covers difficult subject matter in an approachable way using easy-to-grasp techniques and step-by-step exercises.

Creativity and Robotics

Creativity and Robotics
Author: Patricia Alves-Oliveira
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 2832503845
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The Ultimate Oil Painting Solution: for Landscape Art, Portraiture and Still Life

The Ultimate Oil Painting Solution: for Landscape Art, Portraiture and Still Life
Author: Rachel Shirley
Publisher: Rachel Shirley
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2013-02-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1492742287
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A bulky, comprehensive book on oil painting various subject matter. Ever had trouble drawing ellipses, mixing skin colours or painting skies? This bumper oil painting book tackles 78 such painting ‘peeves’ with suggested solutions. The Ultimate Oil Painting Solution comprise three full-length art books: Why do my Clouds Look Like Cotton Wool? a problem-solver for landscape painting; Why do my Skin Tones Look Lifeless? a problem-solver for portrait painting, and Why do my Ellipses Look Like Doughnuts? a problem-solver for still life painting. Each book can be purchased singly if interested in just one subject area. However, purchasing the three in this bundle book will work out a little cheaper than buying the three books individually. Each book comprises 26 common ‘peeves’ (in the form of chapters) associated with the oil painting area concerned, and therefore you will find 78 such peeves and suggested solutions collectively within. The book has 73,000 words, 78 chapters and around 400 images. Each book also possesses a step by step painting demonstration associated with the subject area. These are Castlerigg Stone Circle (for landscape art); David’s Oath of the Horatii (for portraiture) and painting strawberries (for still life). The ‘peeves’ selected represent common problem areas that students have experienced in my art classes. Such peeves include the rendering of foreshortenings, darkening skin colours, suggesting ripples in water, painting clouds, mixing greens, suggesting soft hair, painting noses, reflections in eyes, moisture on fruit, portrait photography, measuring tones, darkening snow colours and a myriad of other peeves. As each book are in themselves separate entities, where applicable, similar information is presented in context of landscape art, portraiture and still life painting, although the information is presented differently. Examples of this are the art materials needed for painting and the nature of pigments. However, such occurrences are mostly confined to the introductory chapters of each book and occur seldom elsewhere. Key chapters in this book cover the colour theory, perspectives, drawing ellipses, the golden section, tonal values, underglazing, art techniques, the nature of pigments, essential art materials, monochromatic painting, composing an arrangement, negative shapes, painting en plein air, drawing foreshortenings, creating mood, making a viewfinder, colour temperatures, drawing methods, the rules of reflections, painting on a budget, types of gessoes, skin colours and much, much more. The aim of this book is to find a ‘cure’ for a given issue and enable the developing artist to improve in the future. Most of all, to encourage creativity and growing confidence. Dimensions of print book: 10x8in and 234 pages.

Artist Toolbox: Color

Artist Toolbox: Color
Author: Walter Foster Creative Team
Publisher: Walter Foster
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1633222721
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Artist Toolbox: Color explains how color captures mood and helps communicate meaning, as well as how to use color to create personal, expressive works of art. In Artist Toolbox: Color, painters will learn how to create impactful work with an understanding of basic color theory. Topics include the color wheel, hue, saturation, value, temperature, relativity, color relationships, and color mixing. You will learn how color captures mood and to communicate meaning with nothing more than color as you create personal, expressive works of art. Step-by-step projects and accessible technique demonstrations show color theory in action, making this book a useful reference for any beginning artist's library. The Artist Toolbox series provides easy-to-use reference guides for beginning and aspiring artists. While many instructional art books gloss over important concepts, focusing instead on how to replicate a piece of art, the Artist Toolboxseries breaks down the whats, whens, whys, and hows of each relevant tool or technique, clearly demonstrating its purpose and how to employ it to achieve the desired effects.

The Art Teacher's Book of Lists

The Art Teacher's Book of Lists
Author: Helen D. Hume
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2010-11-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0470877820
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A revised and updated edition of the best-selling resource for art teachers This time-tested book is written for teachers who need accurate and updated information about the world of art, artists, and art movements, including the arts of Africa, Asia, Native America and other diverse cultures. The book is filled with tools, resources, and ideas for creating art in multiple media. Written by an experienced artist and art instructor, the book is filled with vital facts, data, readings, and other references, Each of the book's lists has been updated and the includes some 100 new lists Contains new information on contemporary artists, artwork, art movements, museum holdings, art websites, and more Offers ideas for dynamic art projects and lessons Diverse in its content, the book covers topics such as architecture, drawing, painting, graphic arts, photography, digital arts, and much more.

Why Do My Clouds Look Like Cotton Wool? Plus 25 Solutions to Other Landscape Painting Peeves

Why Do My Clouds Look Like Cotton Wool? Plus 25 Solutions to Other Landscape Painting Peeves
Author: Rachel Shirley
Publisher: Rachel Shirley
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2011-01-28
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1456422553
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Indeed why do clouds sometimes look like cotton wool in landscape paintings? And why do mountains sometimes end up resembling pointed cones topped with cream? This handy-sized artbook aims to offer guidance.Such frustrations and many others are occasionally encountered by professional landscape artists and novices alike, whether it is to capture a bright sunset or the greens of foliage. It is all part of learning to paint.If the issue persists, however, the problem is likely to become a creative block. This is where this book comes in.With no-nonsense and at times direct advice, each issue is tackled in-depth: a diagnostic of the problem, suggested solutions in the form of recommended art materials and remedial painting exercises, as well as an oil painting demonstration.In total, twenty-six common "peeves" associated with landscape painting are tackled within this book, including why shadows look like black splodges, trees like lollypops and why flowers look garish. In five clear sections, a myriad of other matters relating to landscape painting are explained, such as the colour theory, the rules of perspectives and introductory chapters on the essentials of oil painting, in total, with around 120 colour illustrations and several diagrams.The chapters offering solutions to common problems are:1. I haven't the room or funds to pursue oil painting.2. Oil painting techniques for landscape art seems complicated.3. I don't have the confidence to begin landscape painting.4. My landscape painting looks childish.5. How do I loosen my style for expressive. landscapes?6. How do I get smooth effects for water and skies?7. What do I do about background to my landscape paintings?8. How do I erase a mistake from my painting?9. Painting impasto uses too much pigment10. Why do my landscape paintings look dull?11. Why are my colour mixes dirty?12. Why do my greens look artificial?13. My landscape paintings look insipid.14. My skies are bland and empty.15. My clouds look like cotton wool.16. My moonlit landscapes look dingy.17. My sunset paintings look tarnished.18. My landscape scenes lack depth and drama.19. My trees look like lollypops.20. How do I make water look like water?21. The ripples in my lake painting look harsh.22. My flower studies are garish23. My shadows look like black splodges.24. How do I darken the colour of snow?25. The perspectives of my buildings look crooked.26. My mountains resemble pointed cones.An oil painting demonstration.If the problem sought after is not in this book, it might be in my other Oil Painting Medic book, Why do my Ellipses look Like Doughnuts?Book's dimensions: 5.75inx8.75in (140mmx220mm), 167 pages, 25,000 words, 120 colour illustrations and 10 black and white diagrams.