Artist's Painting Techniques

Artist's Painting Techniques
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2023-09-12
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0744091683
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Whether you're trying your hand at painting for the first time or honing your artistic ability, Artist's Painting Techniques is the handiest guide to teach you how to paint. Starting with the basics such as observational skills and learning how to draw, Artist's Painting Techniques will guide you into working with watercolors, acrylics, and oil paints. Discover everything you need to know about tone, color, pattern, brushwork, and composition to create your own masterpieces with confidence. Learn a range of key watercolor, acrylic, and oil painting techniques, including laying a flat wash, painting fur, and creating impasto sculptural effects. Embark on exciting artistic exercises and projects to discover your style and grow as an artist. Follow the fully illustrated step-by-step guides and get inspiring advice and encouragement from practicing artists. Kickstart your creativity and develop your own style with Artist's Painting Techniques.

What Color is Your Aura?

What Color is Your Aura?
Author: Barbara Bowers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1989-12-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0671707639
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From Simon & Schuster, What Color Is Your Aura?: Personality Spectrums for Understanding and Growth describes the colored bands of light that surround everyone's body. What Color Is Your Aura? is the only book available that will tell readers what color their aura is and what it reveals about their personality, emotions, talents and potential.

Modern Still Life: From Fruit Bowls to Disco Balls

Modern Still Life: From Fruit Bowls to Disco Balls
Author: Sari Shryack
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2024-06-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0760388741
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Anyone can learn to paint! Join popular artist and instructor Sari Shryack for approachable lessons that make painting still lifes with acrylic fun, fresh, and feasible. Sari Shryack runs the popular social media channels @not_sorry_art. She teaches painting classes online and in person, offers painting retreats domestically and internationally, hosts a podcast, and writes a blog. Modern Still Life: From Fruit Bowls to Disco Balls is her first book and the ideal opportunity for Sari to do what she does best: make painting accessible to all, something that Sari is especially passionate about. You will learn: Why to paint still lifes How to use acrylic paints, as well as tools like brushes and canvases To be open, curious, and forgiving of your own mistakes as an artist About drawing for painting How to compose objects for a still life Color mixing and how to use color palettes to create different moods and styles How to use other painting media besides acrylic, including oil paints And much more! Then take your new skills and paint your own still lifes. In addition to the foundational information listed above, this book features complete step-by-step painting projects for creating disco balls, unexpected everyday objects, and more in Sari’s signature dynamic style. You can also personalize the pieces using your own items and colors. There’s no need to go out and buy expensive art tools and props for painting. Modern Still Life: From Fruit Bowls to Disco Balls shows you how easy and fun it is to paint what you have on hand. Start painting fresh, bold still lifes with this friendly and accessible guide.

Decorative Painting for Home & Garden

Decorative Painting for Home & Garden
Author: Karen Embry
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2005-08
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781402731143
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It's easy to add a pinch of panache to any d�cor with these unique and gorgeous painted designs for chairs, benches, shelves, even pillows. Just transfer the patterns to the furniture, follow the color placement instructions and detailed worksheets, add shadows and highlights as explained, and you have a beautiful piece that would have cost a fortune in a retail store. Decorate a drop-leaf table with colorful fruits of the season: purple grapes, golden pears, luscious peaches, and ripe red apples. An old flea market chair becomes worthy of royalty when given a fun "Queen of Hearts" motif. Or try the Fairest of Them All Mirror, Le Jardin Twig Footstool, Just for Her Cabinet, and other fabulous patterns. A Selection of the Country Homes & Gardens Book Club.

Pink Flamingos and the Yellow Pages

Pink Flamingos and the Yellow Pages
Author: Bob Hambly
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Design
ISBN: 145218061X
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Discover the weird and wonderful stories of our colorful world! Why are wedding dresses white? And what is the Ketchup and Mustard Theory? The answers always come back to color. Color infuses our lives with meaning, manifesting in science, language, design, pop culture, and beyond. Specific hues shape our everyday actions and define entire generations. In 75 short essays, this book reveals the hidden histories behind a range of fascinating hues—from shocking shades to subtle tints, from jockey silks on the racetrack to corals on the ocean floor. This elegant little hardcover is bursting with bright photographs throughout. It's a vivid tour across geography and through time that will leave you with a renewed sense of curiosity and wonder about our colorful world. KNOWLEDGEABLE AUTHOR: Designer Bob Hambly brings both expertise and irresistible enthusiasm to this exploration of color. His blog Colour Studies has received publicity in the design blog world since its 2017 launch—including a feature in Uppercase Magazine. THE JOY OF COLOR: Color is a universal element of the world; it lifts our mood and fascinates us. Everyone from artists to designers to rainbow lovers will enjoy this fresh spin on the topic. APPROACHABLE AND COMPELLING: Hambly shares his insights in a direct and appealing style sprinkled with wry humor. Photographs and a bold, colorful design make this book a delight to read. PERFECT FOR TRIVIA LOVERS: With wow-worthy information presented in bitesize chapters, this is the perfect gift for anyone who loves collecting trivia. Perfect for: • Trivia enthusiasts • Color and rainbow lovers • Art and design fans • History buffs • Pop culture fiends

Pass It On!!

Pass It On!!
Author: Winnifred Holly
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1664160698
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Mehreen Kenna is a seventeen-year-old with emotional baggage. As she deals with her problems and resolves old conflicts, one mistake causes a chain reaction of tragedy and chaos.

The Longest Suicide

The Longest Suicide
Author: David L. O’Neal
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2016-06-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1480831131
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David L. ONeal looks back at a lifetime filled with adventures, beginning with his childhood, to his time at Princeton University, in the Marine Corps, and his career as a rare book dealer. Born in Miami in 1938, his family settled in Long Island, New York, where he met his best friend at seven years old. For the next several years, they played war games in the woods, impersonated Robin Hood and his Merry Men, and enjoyed being kids. But ONeal had a difficult relationship with his fathera distant man who he blames for his lifelong stutter. For years, he had trouble dealing with authority figures or anyone who was tall, brooding, and forebodingand he also battled bipolar disorder. ONeal went on to become a student at Princeton University, where he enjoyed a prolonged drinking session with Ernest Hemingway in 1959. Then it was on to joining the Marine Corpsmainly because he didnt know what else to do. He found his calling as a rare book dealer, helping the FBI catch thieves and making wonderful finds along the way, such as the time he bought a rare printing of the U.S. Constitution for $75 that sold for $75,000.

The Greatest Novel Ever Written

The Greatest Novel Ever Written
Author: Howard Camner
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1664196692
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In one breath: Banished intergalactic outlaws are brought back into action to try and stop the annihilation of the universe by The Evil One while a mob underboss / hitman turned actor gets trapped in a bizarre desert town and reprises his role as a B-movie monster to escape while the world’s greatest detective and his partner try to solve a muddled mystery and salad monsters terrorize a post-apocalyptic city while the B-movie monster becomes a seething sensation and one of the intergalactic outlaws is sent back in time to the days of Greek mythology where he deals with gods and titans as the world’s greatest detective takes on an escaped criminal mastermind and two bug-eyed aliens from the square planet Digby are sent to Earth to recover a mysterious orb with a mind of its own and this very aggravated author tries to juggle it all.