Make Your Own Artist's Tools and Materials

Make Your Own Artist's Tools and Materials
Author: Vance Studley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1992
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780486272467

Make pigments, brushes, bamboo pens, palettes, felt-tip markers, etching needles, woodblock press, a portable drafting table, more.

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Author: Betty Edwards
Publisher: Tarcher
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1989
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Presents a set of basic exercises designed to release creative potential and tap into the special abilities of the brain's right hemisphere.

The Organic Artist

The Organic Artist
Author: Nick Neddo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1592539262

This is an art book which highlights the possibility of using natural, organic materials as art supplies and inspiration.

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

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.

The Artist's Journey

The Artist's Journey
Author: Nancy Hillis
Publisher: Artist's Journey Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780999750421

A reflection journal crafted to nudge you to explore the inner landscape of your creativity as well as believe in yourself as an artist. Lessons and creative prompts unfold as poets and writers speak universal truths across the centuries, exhorting you to reflect upon your life and what's what's meaningful to you on your creative journey.

The Artist's Journey

The Artist's Journey
Author: Nancy Hillis
Publisher: Artist's Journey Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9780999750438

If you yearn to say yes to your deepest expression in your art and life, this self-help book is for you. Dr. Hillis guides you past resistance on your artist's journey so you can finally trust yourself, develop confidence and cultivate deep exploration and experimentation in your art. Bonus resource library with videos lessons and book club guide.

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

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.

The Art of Eric Carle

The Art of Eric Carle
Author: Eric Carle
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1984813404

Carle is one of the most beloved illustrators of children's books. This retrospective is more than just an appreciation of his art, however. The book also contains an insightful autobiography illustrated with personal photographs, an anecdotal essay by his longtime editor, a photographic essay on how Carle creates his collages, and writings by Carle and his colleagues. Still, it is the artwork in the oversize volume that seizes the imagination. More than 60 of his full-color collage pictures are handsomely reproduced and serve as a statement of Carle's impressive talent. - Booklist

The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics

The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics
Author: Freddie E Williams II
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2013-07-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0823008320

At last–the first guide to drawing comics digitally! Artists! Gain incredible superpowers...with the help of your computer! The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics shows how to give up pencil, pen, and paper and start drawing dynamic, exciting comics art entirely with computer tools. Author Freddie E Williams is one of DC Comics' hottest artists and a leader in digital penciling and inking–and here, in clear, step-by-step directions, he guides readers through every part of the digital process, from turning on the computer to finishing a digital file of fully inked comic art, ready for print. Creating a template, sketching on the computer, penciling, and finally inking digitally are all covered in depth, along with bold, timesaving shortcuts created by Williams, tested by years of trial and error. Step into the digital age, streamline the drawing process, and leap over the limitations of mere physical drawing materials with The DC Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics.

Hack the Experience

Hack the Experience
Author: Ryan Dewey
Publisher: punctum books
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1947447653

"This is a book for artists, but it is also for curators, art school faculty, landscape architects, gallerists, archivists, post-disciplinary multi-hyphenates, museum program staff, and anyone who wants to know about the ways art and congnitive science come together to engage an audience."--Cover