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A fun and accessible guide to painting flowers in watercolour with step-by-step exercises.

World-renowned artist Trevor Waugh reveals the secrets of painting flowers in watercolour in this fun, easy-to-follow book. Focusing on the techniques that matter the most, you’ll be able to start producing better flower paintings in the space of an afternoon. 

The book includes expert guidance on all aspects of flower painting in watercolour, including the basic shapes and how to combine them, how to design the perfect composition and how to create subtle and evocative effects. The author shares tips on how to use colour to create realistic-looking flowers and foliage, his go-to basic palette and details on how to create beautiful, nuanced colour mixes. There is also a section on how to achieve real artistry in your work, using hard and soft edges, clever observation and different angles to perfect your work. 

Armed with this beautiful book, packed with breathtaking inspirational paintings and a selection of helpful step-by-step demonstration sequences, you’ll become an expert flower painting in no time at all.

A practical guide to learn painting individual people and crowds, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations.

Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan has distilled her art teaching into the things that matter most and can be digested in a short period of time. Learning to paint is one of the life-long aspirations of many of us and the techniques of painting lively crowd scenes or portraits of loved ones can be picked up faster than you think.

In this concise book, Hazel Soan explains everything you need to know about figurative painting in an accessible way. She advises on how to paint people in a variety of poses and settings, dealing with the theories of colour and light in a way that beginners will understand and more experienced painters will find invaluable. She also guides you through ways to insert people into your pre-existing painting to bring them to life; scenes like urban streets and on the beach are explored. Subjects like how to paint portraits and getting to grips with body proportion and perspective are also covered. Both media of watercolours and oils are covered, making this the perfect book for any type of artist.

Filled with easy-to-follow exercises and demonstrations, this is a practical and helpful guide to learning to paint people very quickly.

About the Author:

Hazel Soan is a popular and successful artist who divides her time between London and Cape Town, exhibiting her work widely. She has her own gallery in Fulham, London. She is author of several bestselling books and a range of successful DVDs. She was one of the art experts in the popular Channel 4 TV series Watercolour Challenge. The very successful Learn Watercolour Quickly, Essence of Watercolour and Watercolour Rainbow are also by Hazel Soan.

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Пролистать книгу Learn to Paint People Quickly: A Practical, Step-by-step Guide to Learning to Paint People in Watercolour and Oils на Google Books

Cet ouvrage d’initiation est à nouveau disponible. Il détaille les techniques de base de la fabrication des bijoux, les procédés et les matériaux. Il reprend également les connaissances historiques, esthétiques et pratiques qui permettent aux amateurs ou aux professionnels de nourrir un socle de savoirs indispensables à la pratique de leur art.

In the tradition of American painters such as Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, and John Singer Sargent, Mario Andres Robinson shows us how to create beautiful, timeless, classical watercolor paintings through the use of simple, yet sophisticated, contemporary techniques every watercolorist needs to know.

Many artists find watercolor difficult to control and are often disappointed with the results. The water meanders across the surface of the paper and, given the proper nuance by the artist’s brush, it will reluctantly settle. Robinson’s approach to the medium of watercolor is primarily traditional but his methods are unconventional. Robinson simplifies the process and teaches artists to layer colors from light to dark and to focus on the highlighted areas first. He teaches that the values should be established in the beginning stages of the painting, using a monochromatic block-in that allows you to glaze pure layers of color over a muted gray underpainting. The results produce more sophisticated, subtle paintings. Further, his “live in the moment” approach embraces watercolor’s unpredictability as part of the process, the end result being a painting with intensity, spontaneity, and beauty.

Inspiring, concise, and practical, Mario Andres Robinson gives watercolorists of every skill level — from beginner to advanced to professional — encouraging advice and the must-have materials and techniques information they need to take their realistic painting to the next level, such as:

Essential Studio Practices • Materials and Tools • Exploring Your Subject • The Importance of Drawing • Watercolor Techniques • Considering Value • Incorporating Color • Overcoming Watercolor Challenges • An Artist’s Life

Richly illustrated, the book features over 100 of Robinson’s luminous, emotive watercolors; works by past and present watercolor masters, including John James Audubon, Henry Casselli, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Michael Lowery, John Singer Sargent, and Stephen Scott Young; 8 in-depth step-by-step painting demonstrations; color charts; product illustrations; and diagrams.

About the Author:

Mario Andres Robinson studied fine art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and received his BFA in 1993. He is a regular contributor to The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, and several others. Mario is a Brand Ambassador for Winsor & Newton art materials. He conducts workshops nationally and internationally throughout the year. His affiliations include The Salmagundi Club (New York), The Pastel Society of America (New York), and the National Arts Club and he’s been named a Living Master by the Art Renewal Center. Robinson’s work can be seen at Arcadia Contemporary and Ann Long Fine Art or on his website. His public collections include The Arkansas Arts Center (Little Rock, AR), Bank of America, and Museo Arte Contemporanea Sicilia (Sicily, Italy). Robinson's work is widely collected by private and public collectors. He lives in Point Pleasant, NJ.

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Пролистать книгу Lessons in Realistic Watercolor: A Contemporary Approach to Painting People and Places in the Classical Tradition

Thanks to its exquisite pictorial material, this book familiarizes the reader with the logic and golden rules of art. It enables an understanding, on the one hand, of the keys to appreciating the works of the great masters, and on the other, of how to apply these rules to the practice of one's own creative activities.

The work begins with a number of basic explanations on how to represent and interrelate the different parts of the human body. The introduction is followed by chapters on the various possibilities for representing male and female nudes, and mythological and biblical figures, dressed and contextualized. Finally, it looks at quadruped animals and birds.

From shonen to shojo, kodomo and sentai genres, this book is a visual and comprehensive guide of the main characters in contemporary manga, including cool teenagers, superheroes, female ninja and sci-fi pilots. This is an invaluable source of inspiration for aspiring comic book artists. Illustrated throughout with full colour Manga illustrations.

Ce livre d’initiation s’adresse aussi bien aux jeunes en formation de sculpture qu’au grand public désirant travailler le bois en amateur. Il commence par décrire la technologie nécessaire au sculpteur-ornemaniste, au modeleur et mouleur à travers de nombreux dessins réalisés par l’auteur. Ensuite, la réalisation de sculptures permet de mettre en pratique la technologie avec des exemples facilement réalisables car présentés à l’échelle 1.

Sommaire :
Technologie : l’outillage du sculpteur ornemaniste, l’outillage du modeleur, les moyens de serrage, les défonceuses, les machines à sculpter, l’établi du sculpteur, l’atelier, le bois, la taille du bois, le traçage d’un ornement sur le bois, le modelage et le moulage.

For matte painters and concept artists working in the movie, videogame, and TV industry, it can often be important to be able to quickly and efficiently create artwork, for storyboarding and storytelling purposes. Master the Art of Speed Painting: Digital Painting Techniques aims to be the go-to book for artists training to enter the industry, and for established artists looking to brush up on their knowledge of speed painting.

Featuring helpful time-saving tips and techniques from established industry artists, such as how to create and use custom brushes, and how to implement an impressionistic style, there's plenty to offer to help the artist master their craft. In addition, there are time-specific guides for painting in 10-, 30-, 60- or 120-minute periods, all to enable the artist to tailor their abilities to suit any situation that might arise in the high-pressure, time-sensitive creative industry. Become a speed-painting master in no time!

Master the Art of Speed Painting: Digital Painting Techniques also aims to fill a void within the digital art book market, as no directly comparative title currently exists. In today's fast-moving world, speed is often of the essence, and this book will become an essential guide for students and established artists alike.

The Fauvist. Brilliant colour, simple forms, and purity of expression are the hallmarks of  Matisse's work

Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is known not only as one of the most important French painters of the 20th century but also as co-founder and leading exponent of Fauvism. His work reflects an ongoing quest for the expressive power of pure, brilliant colours and simple forms; as a result, the realistic presentation of nature often retires to a secondary position.

For Matisse, color did not serve as a tool for the expression of subjective feelings, but rather became the equivalent of light itself: it functioned as a pure medium in the creation of an autonomous pictorial space: "Out of my fruitful work with discovered tones there must emerge a vital colour harmony, a harmony that is analogous to a musical composition."

As a creative artist, Matisse was not only a painter but also experimented with other materials: he produced glass windows and theater designs and created significant sculptures in bronze, ceramic and clay. In old age, confined to a wheelchair, he created collages with coloured paper, glue, and scissors: his famed gouache cut-outs.

About the Series:

Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Art Series features:

- a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist
- approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions
- a concise biography

Les marqueteries peuvent être l’objet d’utilisations diverses. Ce livre présente des modèles destinés à recouvrir les boîtes. Ces marqueteries peuvent aussi être réalisées sous forme de tableau. Les photos sont accompagnées d’un dessin du sujet et de plans pour réaliser différents modèles de boîtes.

Les cent modèles de marqueterie présentés dans ce livre sont tous réalisés par l’auteur. Certaines de ces pièces sont simples et peuvent être facilement reproduites, d’autres nécessitent un véritable savoir-faire. Le thème des oiseaux, des villages, du portrait figurent parmi les dix sujets choisis. Ce livre offre au marqueteur débutant ou chevronné des sujets variés réalisables quelle que soit la technique de marqueterie employée.

Dans les pays de montagnes lorsque la neige empêche toute activité agricole, beaucoup de paysans passaient leur temps à sculpter le bois des meubles et des objets domestiques. Cette tradition est très vivace au Queyras, région montagneuse du Dauphiné, qui a développé une sculpture au couteau principalement géométrique appliquée sur bien des objets d’art populaire. La technique en est simple : elle ne nécessite qu’un couteau bien affûté (l’auteur utilise un simple Opinel) et une grande précision dans le tracé. Les essences traditionnellement utilisées sont le pin cembro et le tilleul.

Guy Thory nous présente ici plusieurs centaines de modèles de sculpture sur bois - motifs ornementaux, motifs géométriques – et nous explique chaque fois leur réalisation grâce à un dessin précis et une photo du motif réalisé.

Le livre est agrémenté de nombreuses photos de meubles anciens appartenant au Musée Dauphinois de Grenoble et au Musée départemental de Gap dont beaucoup, comme les fameux coffres de mariage, sont des chefs-d’œuvre d’art populaire et de sculpture sur bois au couteau.

Sommaire :
Les bases : bois, outillage, histoire de la rosace, motifs traditionnels, tracés de base, exemples d’art populaire.
Les modèles : rosaces, croix pattées, soleils, palmettes, lentilles, dents de loup, étoiles, croisillons, dessins composés, couteaux et gouges, motifs floraux, dessins italiens, chiffres et lettres. 

У книзі Morpho: Fat and Skin Folds художник і викладач Мішель Лаурічелла представляє унікальний підхід до навчання малюванню людського тіла. Типовий підхід до викладання анатомії та ескізування людської форми найчастіше зосереджується на скелеті та мускулатурі. Часто ігнорується сама шкіра — як вона рухається та які вирази вона створює, коли тіло рухається та змінює положення. Ця книга представляє спрощене та практичне бачення жирових та шкірних складок людського тіла, щоб допомогти вам у навчанні малюванню, заохочуючи як точність, так і багате, різноманітне зображення людської форми. Розрахована на художників усіх рівнів — від початківців до професіоналів — ця зручна книга кишенькового формату допоможе розпалити вашу уяву та творчість.

Зміст:

- Передмова
- Вступ
- Голова та шия
- Тулуб та плечі
- Верхні кінцівки
- Нижні кінцівки
- Ресурси

Про автора:

Мішель Лорічелла навчався в Вищій національній школі витончених мистецтв у Парижі. Він викладав морфологію протягом 20 років, послідовно в школі Еміля Коля в Ліоні, майстернях витончених мистецтв у Парижі та в Гобеленах (Париж). Наразі він є професором у Lisaa (Париж) та у Fabrica1 (Париж).

A passionate assertion of the relevance of painting today, exploring how this traditional medium has been re-approached and reimagined by artists working across the globe

Painting is a continually expanding and evolving form of creative expression. The radical changes in the medium that took place in the 1960s and 70s - the period that saw the shift from a modernist to a postmodernist visual language - have led to painting's continued energy and diversity.

Renowned critic and art historian Suzanne Hudson provides an intelligent and original survey of contemporary painting - a critical snapshot that brings together more than 200 artists from around the world who are defining the painterly ideas and aesthetics of our time.

A contextual introduction maps out the history of painting in the modern and postmodern eras, followed by six chapters that explores the themes of appropriation, attitude, production and distribution, the body, painting about painting, and painters who introduce performance, installation and textiles into their work to critique painting itself.

The book features artists both well known and emerging, including Franz Ackermann, Angela de la Cruz, Urs Fischer, Katharina Grosse, Subodh Gupta, Wade Guyton, Julie Mehretu, Vik Muniz, Neo Rauch, Wilhelm Sasnal, Kara Walker, Christopher Wool, Yue Minjun and Zhang Xiaogang.

Compellingly argued and beautifully illustrated, Painting Now is an invaluable primer on the state of painting today and essential reading for all those interested in contemporary art, art history and criticism.

About the Author: 

Suzanne Hudson is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Southern California. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Parkett, Flash Art, Art Journal and October.

A passionate assertion of the relevance of painting today, exploring how this traditional medium has been re-approached and reimagined by artists working across the globe

Painting is a continually expanding and evolving form of creative expression. The radical changes in the medium that took place in the 1960s and 70s - the period that saw the shift from a modernist to a postmodernist visual language - have led to painting's continued energy and diversity.

Renowned critic and art historian Suzanne Hudson provides an intelligent and original survey of contemporary painting - a critical snapshot that brings together more than 200 artists from around the world who are defining the painterly ideas and aesthetics of our time.

A contextual introduction maps out the history of painting in the modern and postmodern eras, followed by six chapters that explores the themes of appropriation, attitude, production and distribution, the body, painting about painting, and painters who introduce performance, installation and textiles into their work to critique painting itself.

The book features artists both well known and emerging, including Franz Ackermann, Angela de la Cruz, Urs Fischer, Katharina Grosse, Subodh Gupta, Wade Guyton, Julie Mehretu, Vik Muniz, Neo Rauch, Wilhelm Sasnal, Kara Walker, Christopher Wool, Yue Minjun and Zhang Xiaogang.

Compellingly argued and beautifully illustrated, Painting Now is an invaluable primer on the state of painting today and essential reading for all those interested in contemporary art, art history and criticism.

About the Author: 

Suzanne Hudson is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Southern California. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Parkett, Flash Art, Art Journal and October.