The Official Paint By Numbers Guide: Master the Secrets to Paint By Numbers

The Official Paint By Numbers Guide: Master the Secrets to Paint By Numbers
Author: Logan Ransley
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2018-10-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781723818004

Paint By Numbers is fun. Plain and simple. It allows a new stress-reducing approach for expressing ourselves - using a method of painting invented by Leonardo da Vinci. (Legend has it that he created this method because he was too busy to teach his disciples and pupils how to paint.)After years of suffering enormous social anxiety, and surviving countless (and frightening) panic attacks, Logan Ransley found out about Paint By Numbers - a popular "kid's game" that anyone can use to paint true pieces of fantastic art.The concept of "Paint By Numbers" is simple: Each artist is given a canvas with the outline of a graphic. The outline is separated by "mini outlines", each one designated with a number. The artist then paints in those assigned numbers with a colour that corresponds with the number. (So #1 is orange, #2 is red, #3 is green, and so on.) Reaching the pinnacle of his expression, he created a complete guidebook on Paint By Numbers.The Official Paint By Numbers Guide takes you by the hand and shows you how to maneuver and overcome the many problems both he and his friends encountered. Among those include thickening paint, smudging areas, unrolling the canvas without destroying the outline, and a lot more.Using the techniques and skills that helped him cope with the stress of everyday living, Logan gives you the tactics and strategies you can use in your own life to manage stress single-handedly and how to transform "Paint By Numbers" from being a game for kids into a therapeutic art form so you can become a happier, less-stressed and a more creative version of yourself.

Jerry Yarnell's Landscape Painting Secrets

Jerry Yarnell's Landscape Painting Secrets
Author: Jerry Yarnell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2008-06-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 144032199X

Let Jerry teach you how to Master Landscapes You can master landscape painting with the help of popular painter Jerry Yarnell. In Landscape Painting Secrets, Jerry explores the different areas of landscape painting that often create problems for beginning and intermediate artists. All of the major landscape elements are covered—from rocks, dirt roads and grass to still and moving water to atmospheric conditions like rainbows, falling snow, storm clouds and lightning. Dozens of thumbnail studies break each element down step by step with clear instructions and photographs so no stroke is uncertain. These individual studies let you practice and explore new techniques without the worry of ruining a complete painting. Once you've mastered the techniques, Jerry will help you apply what you've learned in three complete landscape scenes that include detailed instructions and photographs. Grab your paints and brushes and get started today!

Save the Cat!

Save the Cat!
Author: Blake Snyder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781615931712

This ultimate insider's guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a show biz veteran who's proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat!

Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice

Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice
Author: Arie Wallert
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 241
Release: 1995-08-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892363223

Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

Oil & Acrylic: Sunsets

Oil & Acrylic: Sunsets
Author: Tom Swimm
Publisher: Walter Foster
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1600582427

"Taking the first steps; Finding a focus; Expressing nature's beauty; Developing textures."

The Simple Secret to Better Painting

The Simple Secret to Better Painting
Author: Greg Albert
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2003-04-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440317518

Create art that's more attractive, interesting and eye-catching! Even if your perspective is accurate, your subject realistic and colors vibrant, a weak composition - predictable, repetitious or monotonous - means a weak painting. The Simple Secret to Better Painting ensures that your compositions work every time. It's an insightful artistic philosophy that boils down the many technical principles of composition into a single master rule that's easy to remember and apply: Never make any two intervals the same. You can make every painting more interesting, dynamic and technically sound by varying intervals of distance, length and space, as well as intervals of value and color. The rule also applies to balance, shape and the location of your painting's focal point. Greg Albert illustrates these lessons with eye-opening examples from both beginning and professional artists, including Frank Webb, Tony Couch, Kevin Macpherson, Charles Reid, Tony Van Hasselt and more. You'll discover that the ONE RULE is the only rule of composition you need to immediately improve your work - the moment your brush touches the canvas.

Traditional Oil Painting

Traditional Oil Painting
Author: Virgil Elliott
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Oils and fats
ISBN: 9780823030668

"Traditional Oil Painting is that rare sourcebook that comprehensively covers the most advanced techniques and concepts of oil painting"--P. [2] of cover.

Hackers & Painters

Hackers & Painters
Author: Paul Graham
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2004-05-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0596006624

The author examines issues such as the rightness of web-based applications, the programming language renaissance, spam filtering, the Open Source Movement, Internet startups and more. He also tells important stories about the kinds of people behind technical innovations, revealing their character and their craft.

Problem Solving for Oil Painters

Problem Solving for Oil Painters
Author: Gregg Kreutz
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1997-04-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780823040971

Finally - a book to help you solve all your painting problems! Inside you'll learn how to study a painting and correct problematic areas. Study topics include: Ideas - Is there a good abstract idea underlying the picture? - What details could be eliminated to strengthen the composition? - Does the painting have a focus? - Are the unessential parts subbordinated? - Does the painting "read"? - Could you finish any part of the painting? Shapes - Are the dominant shapes as strong and simple as possible? - Are the shapes too similiar? Value - Could the value range be increased? - Could the number of values be reduced? Light - Is the subject effectively lit? - Is the light area big enough? - Would the light look stronger with a suggestion of burnout? - Do the lights have a continuous flow? - Is the light gradiated? Shadows - Do the shadow shapes describe the form? - Are the shadows warm enough? Depth - Would the addition of foreground material deepen the space? - Does the background recede far enough? - Are the halftones properly related to the background? Solidity - Is the underlying form being communicated? - Is the symmetry in perspective? Color - Is there a color strategy? - Could a purer color be used? - Do the whites have enough color in them? - Are the colors overbended on the canvas? - would the color look brighter if it were saturated into its adjacent area? Paint - Is your palette efficiently organized? - Is the painting surface too absorbent? - Are you using the palette knife as much as you could? - Are you painting lines when you should be painting masses? - Are the edges dynamic enough? - Is there enough variation in the texture of the paint?