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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

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...

Modern Painting - Its Tendency And Meaning

by Willard Huntington Wright

This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on the subject of modern painting, being an exploration of its tendency and meaning. With fascinating historical information and a thorough analysis of the development...

Keeping Sketchbooks

by Martin Ursell

Artists use sketchbooks for a myriad of purposes - to capture a moment, to develop an idea, to record a scene... This book advises on how to enjoy keeping a sketchbook and how to make the most of their use....

Figurative Painting with Collage

by Rod Judkins

Collage is an innovative and exciting technique that invigorates the artistic process through unusual associations and dislocated imagery. This practical book shows how collage can be used to portray the figure...

Beginner's Watercolour

by Pavilion

Over 20 simple watercolour projects for beginners, packed with techniques and tips. Paint beautiful watercolours with ease, even if you've never picked up a brush! With a fully illustrated step-by-step introduction...

Botanical Sketchbook

by Mary Ann Scott & Margaret Stevens

This is the story of one woman's journey from amateur painter to botanical artist, told through the sketchbooks and paintings she produced for the Distance Learning Diploma Course run by the Society of Botanical...

Painting with Acrylics

by Ian Coleman

Acrylics are a versatile and exciting medium, but how can you get the most from these paints? This book shows you how. With step-by-step examples, it explains the core brush skills for a beginner. For those...

Painting Self-Portraits

by Paul James

Self-portraiture is a remarkably rich and varied genre, acting for centuries as a means for artists to explore their inner and outer selves. This book looks deeper into the motives and thoughts that lie behind...

Creating Manga Characters

by Sweatdrop Studios

Manga is an emotive and expressive form of storytelling that has become popular worldwide; vivid and fascinating characters make a large contribution to its appeal. Characters are an essential component of a...

Painting Expressive Watercolour

by Bridget Woods

Watercolour offers great potential for expression. Its fluidity, full colour range, generous spread and variety of marks can portray a likeness, a response, a feeling - even the notions of time and speed. This...

Illustrating Children's Books

by Martin Ursell

How do you go about illustrating a children's book? Where do the ideas come from? How do you illustrate a narrative? How do you get published? This beautiful book answers all these questions and more. With practical...

Drawing and Painting the Nude

by Philip Tyler

Artists have always been fascinated with portraying the nude: the beauty and nuances of the human figure are endlessly absorbing. This practical and inspirational book celebrates and continues that enduring...