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Donna Dewberry's Quick & Easy Murals

by Donna Dewberry

Donna Dewberry, America's favorite painter, will help you create beautiful murals and borders for your home

You can keep a garden blooming all year 'round! Donna's trademark one-stroke methods will help you quickly...

Flowers A to Z with Donna Dewberry

by Donna Dewberry

Painting your favorite flowers is easy with Donna Dewberry!

Add the beauty and elegance of painted flowers to your projects. It's quick and fun with Donna Dewberry's popular one-stroke technique! This easy-to-use...

The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting

by Paula Guhin & Geri Greenman

This book is a comprehensive how-to book about all aspects of creative painting. It serves as a reference and technique guide for painting with all types of craft and fine arts paints, including acrylics, oils,...

The Craftsman's Handbook

by Cennino Cennini

Fifteenth-century handbook, written by a working artist of the day, reveals techniques of the masters in drawing, oil painting, frescoes, panel painting, gilding, casting, more. Direct link to artists of Middle...

One Painting a Day: A 6-Week Course in Observational Painting--Creating Extraordinary Paintings from Everyday Experiences

by Timothy Callaghan

One Painting A Day offers you an inspiring six-week course exploring the timeless traditions of observational painting through daily experience and routine.

This motivational guide is broken up into three parts...

Fabric Surface Design: Painting, Stamping, Rubbing, Stenciling, Silk Screening, Resists, Image Transfer, Marbling, Crayons & Colored Pencils, Batik, N

by Cheryl Rezendes

Sensational sewing projects demand fabulous fabrics! Fiber artist Cheryl Rezendes shows you how to create an astonishing array of surface designs, simply and safely, using textile paints and printing ink. She...

Painting Garden Birds with Sherry C. Nelson

by Sherry Nelson

Trade in your bird watching binoculars for a brush!

Sherry C. Nelson, MDA, invites you to paint your favorite American garden birds.

In this book, 11 different oil painting projects show you how to create Bluebirds,...

The Art of Painting Animals on Rocks

by Lin Wellford

This book holds a mountain of fun for rock artists of all ages! With the instructions inside, creating these critters is as easy as picking up a rock!

The Painting Path: Embodying Spiritual Discovery through Yoga, Brush and Color

by Linda Novick & Richard Segalman

Professional artist and beloved teacher Linda Novick guides you in experiencing divine connection through art, with simple yoga-inspired exercises to focus your mind and refresh your body and art projects that...

Contemporary Landscapes in Mixed Media

by Soraya French

A great guide for painters who want to experiment with mixed media and make their landscape paintings more adventurous. Popular artist and teacher, Soraya French, encourages readers to experiment with mixing...

Learn to Paint People Quickly

by Haze Soan

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...

Recreating an Age of Reptiles

by Mark P Witton

Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals have always fascinated people but they pose vast problems for the artist. How do you go about recreating the anatomy and behaviour of a creature we've never seen? How...

The Brushstroke Handbook

by Maureen McNaughton

Beautiful brushstrokes step by step!

This is the one! The Brushstroke Handbook is your complete reference for mastering more than 50 fabulous strokes. Inside you'll find visual, step-by-step instruction divided...

The Exquisite Book of Paper Flower Transformations: Playing with Size, Shape, and Color to Create Spectacular Paper Arrangements

by Livia Cetti

In The Exquisite Book of Paper Flower Arrangements, artist Livia Cetti ups the ante with a host of grander and more intricate flowers and projects-more blooms, more petals, stronger stems, and bigger, bolder...

Painting Portraits of Children

by Simon Davis

Painting a portrait of a child is one of the most complex challenges an artist will face. In this detailed and practical book, Simon Davis opens up his studio and explains his approach. As one of the country's...

Drawing and Painting Cars

by Keith Woodcock

This practical and stimulating book introduces and showcases a wide range of motoring art styles. Recognising the importance of drawing and research, it explains the key components of a successful painting,...

The French Impressionists

by Camille Mauclair

Illustrated with images of 60 Impressionist paintings

This book presents excellent background information and paintings by the most renowned Impressionist painters: Monet, Manet, Morisot, Renoir, Cassatt, Degas,...

Chinese Brush Painting: A Hands-on Introduction to the Traditional Art

by Caroline Self & Susan Self

Presented in an easy-to-understand way that is perfect for children, Chinese Brush Painting teaches the ancient art of Chinese calligraphy.

For more than a thousand years, a traditional Chinese style of art—brush...

Crafting with Alcohol Inks: Creative Projects for Colorful Art, Furniture, Fashion, Gifts and Holiday Decor

by Allison Murray

CREATIVE DESIGNS FOR ONE-OF-A-KIND, COLORFUL PROJECTS USING VERSATILE AND AFFORDABLE ALCOHOL INKS

With alcohol inks, you can add a dazzling design to just about anything. Packed with step-by-step photos, Crafting...

The Confident Creative: Drawing to Free the Hand and Mind

by Cat Bennett

Using simple methods and yogic theory, this unique guide focuses on the art of drawing as a way to unblock creativity and create artistic confidence. Both practicing and beginning artists will learn to develop...