Colored Pencil Secrets for Success

Colored Pencil Secrets for Success
Author: Ann Kullberg
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2009-04-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440317216

Even with a keen eye, it can be difficult to troubleshoot and fix your own artwork. That's where this guide comes in. Featuring a range of styles and subjects, Colored Pencil Secrets for Success is like a personal critique session, featuring proven tips, tricks and fixes that will transform your work from good to great. Ann Kullberg has helped countless artists with her classes and writing. You'll learn what's needed to get off to a great beginning with the right tools, techniques and reference photos; then reap the rewards of Kullberg's visual instruction in this unique critique format, highlighting the why and how of what's working, and what needs work, in 29 inspiring colored pencil compositions. In each example, Kullberg gets right down to the details, revealing crucial secrets for avoiding and fixing things like "Chiclet teeth," streaky skin tones and flat highlights. You'll learn that other artists, in fact, share many of your artistic challenges, as Ann shares the solutions and secrets you need for your own success.

Creative Colored Pencil Workshop

Creative Colored Pencil Workshop
Author: Carlynne Hershberger
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-04-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781581808186

Take Your Colored Pencils Out of the Box ... and Combine the Best of All Mediums! Creative Colored Pencil Workshop is your guide to exploring a new world of artistic possibilities. Following clear, step-by-step demonstrations, you'll try your hand at a range of exciting techniques that blend colored pencils with all kinds of dynamic mediums, including: Watercolor Gouache Acrylics Ink Graphite Oil pastels Metal leaf More than 25 fun projects show you how to use each medium successfully, while offering in-depth guidance for working with various papers, textures and surfaces. Best of all, this book features the insightful instruction of two accomplished artists who offer different yet effective approaches to colored pencil creations. From highly realistic art to more abstract representations, you'll learn how each medium and technique can accommodate virtually any artistic style or subject. Creative Colored Pencil Workshop gives you the best of both worlds: the fluid spontaneity and speed of mixed media and the control and precision of colored pencils. Mix it up, and see what happens!

Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists

Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists
Author: Ann Baldwin
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2009-03-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1616734698

Whether you have formal training in painting or no experience at all, this workshop-style book is the perfect guide for any artist interested in integrating the medium of paint into other types of artwork such as surface design, mixed media, collage, altered art, or art journaling. Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists explores a wide variety of innovative and experimental paint techniques that can add stunning visual impact and texture to many types of work. —Develop your sense of composition and learn new approaches to abstract design. —Experiment with texture effects, collage, inclusions, and encaustic. —Learn how to use the latest new products to achieve magical effects. —See how to use digital imagery, including how to do transfers with wax. —Be inspired by the work of a wide variety of cutting edge, mixed-media artists and experimental painters.

Cool Woodworking Projects: Fun & Creative Workshop Activities

Cool Woodworking Projects: Fun & Creative Workshop Activities
Author: Rebecca Felix
Publisher: ABDO
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2016-08-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1680775502

Sand, saw, stain, and hammer with Cool Woodworking Projects! Kids can learn how to handcraft a cool bow and arrow set, bend and mold a mini wooden skateboard, and more! Each workshop project includes easy-to-read, step-by-step instructions paired with photographs. Budding craftspeople and engineers will love learning how to use the tools of the trade to make one-of-a-kind creations. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Exploring Color Workshop, 30th Anniversary Edition

Exploring Color Workshop, 30th Anniversary Edition
Author: Nita Leland
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2016-09-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440345155

Unlock the secrets to gorgeous, expressive, unforgettable color! Finding color combinations that not only work but excite the eye is one of the greatest challenges artists face. This updated and expanded 30th anniversary edition of the North Light classic Exploring Color teaches artists of all mediums and skill levels how to use and control color in their artwork and shows how exhilarating and enjoyable the ride can be. Popular art instructor and best-selling author Nita Leland will help you take any artwork you make to new color heights. Memorable paintings from more than 30 contributing artists are inside towill inspire you, along with 75+ hands-on exercises, 8 step-by-step demonstrations and countless nuggets of color knowledge--all in your own private workshop! Learn how to master color mixing, assemble the perfect palette for your artistic goals, select just the right color scheme, and communicate color in a way that elevates your designs way beyond the ordinary. Start a handy journal to keep track of your discoveries, with customized mixtures, color wheels, reference charts and other tools designed to uncover your color personality and help you work with color more efficiently. Nita knows that the quest for perfect color can be fun, and it can be yours. So stop guessing, and start exploring! "Beautiful color is no happy accident. Color can be learned." --Nita Leland

Strokes of Genius

Strokes of Genius
Author: Rachel Rubin Wolf
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2007-06-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440317496

Awe-inspiring works by contemporary masters, along with the secrets behind its creation. Drawing is the most intimate and immediate form of self-expression, fundamental to every artist's ability to communicate with a viewer. The sense of energy and expression that can be captured in mere strokes of charcoal, ink, pastel, marker or any of the other modest mediums proudly represented in this book is astounding. A glowing celebration of the art of drawing, Strokes of Genius features styles ranging from meticulous realism to imaginative flights of fancy, from lyrical sketches created in minutes to intricately layered renderings that took months to complete. Includes: • 169 stand-out examples of the finest drawing being done today, selected from hundreds of submissions from around the world. • An impressive range of styles, materials and techniques covering a wide array of subjects, including still life, the figure, animals, landscapes, portraits and more. • Comments from the artists offer firsthand insight on the creation of each artwork, diverse perspectives on drawing, and fresh ideas and techniques. An incomparable source of inspiration and delight for artists and art lovers, Strokes of Genius contains hundreds of combined years of expertise, artistic breakthroughs and, above all, remarkable drawings that leave a lasting impression.

Creative Colored Pencil

Creative Colored Pencil
Author: Gary Greene
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-05-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 144033837X

New, easy & fun colored pencil techniques! In Creative Colored Pencil, you will find secrets for amazing new and never-before-seen techniques that will turn your everyday colored pencils (both traditional wax-based and water-soluble into liquid pencils! Whether you want to learn how to color with colored pencils or want to learn how to paint exceptionally realistic colored pencil artwork, get ready to use materials you've probably never considered before--each a true innovation! • A full primer on types of pencils, recommended tools and basic techniques • Demonstrations for turning colored pencils into "paint" using easy-to-find materials such as rubber cement thinner, mineral spirits and rubbing alcohol • 14 colored pencil projects (including full palette lists) including flowers, landscapes and animals You will discover an unlimited variety of creative possibilities, from the painterly style of acrylics and oils to the loose watercolor look of water-soluble colored pencils and everything in between. Get ready to lose yourself as you learn how to use colored pencils in ways you never thought possible.

How to Grow as an Artist

How to Grow as an Artist
Author: Daniel Grant
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2002-10-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1621531228

In this definitive guide to resources, aspiring artists and serious amateurs devoted to their art will find scores of time-tested strategies to help them set up and work safely from a home studio; learn where and how to acquire appropriate art materials; develop their abilities with others as well as create art alone; explore opportunities for education in a wide variety of forms; overcome mental blocks; mat, frame, pack, and ship works of art; and much more. Artists looking to show and sell their work will find no-fail ideas for marketing, exhibiting, and entering the world of galleries. Filled with entertaining success stories, this is one volume for the bookshelf of every artist hoping to attain satisfaction and pleasure though his or her art. Plus, dozens of well-known artists–as well as those successful on their own terms–share their own success stories and sources for artistic inspiration.

Sketchbook Confidential 2

Sketchbook Confidential 2
Author: Pamela Wissman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440316996

More secrets from the private sketches of 38 master artists The idea may be derived from anything really--a flash of sunlight, the tilt of a head, a glass on the table...but the sketch is where it all begins, the point where inspiration meets artist. Gloriously free of the need to get it "right," the sketch is where possibilities are explored, compositions are found, and visions come to life. A brilliant follow-up to the first Sketchbook Confidential, this book grants you access to 38 of art's most creative minds via their sketchbooks. Whether created in studios, subways or the middle of a farmyard, these sketches represent art in its raw form. Up until now, this work has been tucked inside drawers or on studio bookshelves. Now the artists lay it out for all to see, along with intimate musings on the art of sketching and how it helps them commune with a subject, find their path to a finished piece or discover even greater rewards in the journey itself.