Loosen Up Your Watercolours (Collins Artist’s Studio)

Loosen Up Your Watercolours (Collins Artist’s Studio)
Author: Judi Whitton
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2015-05-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 000810851X

This illustrated ebook, in the Collins Artist’s Studio series, is aimed at the intermediate painter and explains how to loosen up your watercolours and develop a more spontaneous style of painting.

Vibrant Watercolours

Vibrant Watercolours
Author: Shirley Trevena
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0007225237

Superebly illustrated book in watercolor painting.

Watercolour Textures (Collins Artist’s Studio)

Watercolour Textures (Collins Artist’s Studio)
Author: Ann Blockley
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2018-09-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0008328242

Ann Blockley is a very successful artist, known for the innovative way in which she uses texture as a key element in her work. This book, in Collins Artist’s Studio series, looks at how she achieves her stunning effects and provides essential guidelines for the intermediate painter wishing to develop this aspect of their own painting.

The Artist in Time

The Artist in Time
Author: Chris Fite-Wassilak
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2021-10-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1789940966

The Artist in Time brings together twenty creatives from across the UK, with photographs and interviews that disclose their daily working habits and motivations. All born before 1950, this is a collective portrait of a generation who have shaped our artistic landscape. They provide a range of different answers to the question 'what makes an artist?', and a set of insights into what makes up a creative life. Giving the reader access to the studio and working spaces of a diverse group of painters, poets, choreographers, filmmakers, illustrators, musicians, photographers, sculptors, writers and creators, The Artist in Time is a handbook for creativity and inspiration, made up of artists from all backgrounds who have all in their own way shaped, and continue to shape, the creative landscape of the United Kingdom.

Daily Painting

Daily Painting
Author: Carol Marine
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2014-11-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0770435343

A unique system for jump-starting artistic creativity, encouraging experimentation and growth, and increasing sales for artists of all levels, from novices to professionals. Have you landed in a frustrating rut? Are you having trouble selling paintings in galleries, getting bogged down by projects you can’t seem to finish or abandon, or finding excuses to avoid working in the studio? Author Carol Marine knows exactly how you feel—she herself suffered from painter’s block, until she discovered “daily painting.” The idea is simple: do art (usually small) often (how often is up to you), and if you’d like, post and sell it online. Soon you’ll find that your block dissolves and you’re painting work you love—and more of it than you ever thought possible! With her encouraging tone and useful exercises, Marine teaches you to: -Master composition and value -Become confident in any medium including oil painting, acrylic painting, watercolors, and other media -Choose subjects wisely -Stay fresh and loose -Photograph, post, and sell your art online -Become connected to the growing movement of daily painters around the world

Taking Risks with Watercolour

Taking Risks with Watercolour
Author: Shirley Trevena
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2004
Genre: Watercolor painting
ISBN: 000713326X

A practical and well-illustrated book for the intermediate water colourist who is looking for greater challenges in their work.

It's Great to Create

It's Great to Create
Author: Jon Burgerman
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre:
ISBN: 1452155542

Draw, doodle, make, and have fun! There are no mistakes in this wild and wonderful world from doodle artist and illustrator Jon Burgerman. Packed with prompts for 101 unexpected art projects, It's Great to Create offers artists of all ages loads of fun ways to get inspired and kick-start the creative process. From drawing with your eyes closed or doodling on your clothes to putting faces on your condiments or finding colors that rhyme, every page offers a new opportunity to embrace creativity and make something awesome. This unique ebook invites readers to lower their artistic inhibitions and offers a glimpse into the mind of a truly original artist.

The Artist's Watercolour Problem Solver

The Artist's Watercolour Problem Solver
Author:
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The most frequently asked questions from the series. The Artist's Watercolour Problem Solver includes numerous topics, such as finding inspiring subjects to paint, choosing a range of colours and using them to their best effect, creating impact through tone control and recognizing the point at which to stop work on a painting, allowing it to reach its greatest potential. With a wide spectrum of subjects ranging from people, flowers and fabrics to landscapes, interiors and still life, there.

Color Collective's Palette Perfect

Color Collective's Palette Perfect
Author: Lauren Wager
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9788415967903

Aimed to fashion students and designers, Palette Perfect is both a practical guide and an inspirational book that proposes a reflection on the universe of colour combinations, the moods and atmospheres they evoke and how we associate particular places and emotions to special colours. Each chapter explores a particular mood and describes the corresponding feelings and color combinations, using as examples exquisite photographs of objects, still-lives, landscapes, interiors and fashion. Atthe end of each chapter, a wide variety of palettes representing the chapter’s particular mood or atmosphere is included.

Tate: Master Watercolour

Tate: Master Watercolour
Author: David Chandler
Publisher: Ilex Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2021-02-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1781577765

Artists & Illustrators magazine's Book of the Month Taking inspiration from iconic paintings in the Tate collection, discover the techniques of the masters and improve your own painting skills with 30 guided projects. As you work through the exercises, you'll learn how to work 'wet into wet' with Maggi Hambling, master colour temperature with John Singer Sargent and create rhythm and unity in your paintings with John Nash. Whether you are looking to reinvigorate your watercolour practice with new techniques, try your hand at a wide variety of painting styles, or discover a new, inspiring master of the art, this book offers something new for every watercolourist.