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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,...

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...

Drawing and Painting People: A Fresh Approach

by Emily Ball

Drawing and Painting People - A Fresh Approach is about confident and defiant art. Written by a practising artist and tutor, it contains inspiring examples, thought-provoking insights and practical advice about...

Botanical Illustrator's Handbook

by Sally Pinhey

The Botanical Illustrator's Handbook takes a closer look at how to accurately portray the riches of the botanical world. It tackles and explains many of the difficulties that artists encounter so they can extend...

Painting Skies and Seascapes

by Peter Rush

The sea and sky have captured the attention of artists for centuries. Their energy and drama, or their tranquility and beauty, can be portrayed powerfully and magnificently in a painting. This encouraging and...

Painting with Oils

by David Howell

Oils give a rich, majestic quality to a painting but may often be deemed too tricky or ambitious to try. This practical book puts the joy of painting with oils within reach of all who want to develop their skills....

Interior Design Drawing

by Alan Hughes

Interior design is a multidiscipline profession blending spatial, technical and aesthetic knowledge. The skill involved in manipulating these elements to solve specific design problems is intrinsically linked...

Drawing and Painting Horses

by Alison Wilson

Horses may seem to be a challenging subject for an artist, but this book makes equestrian drawing and painting accessible. It explains the fundamental principles of drawing before guiding the reader through...

Life Drawing: A Journey To Self-Expression

by Bridget Woods

Life drawing is a passionate and rewarding pursuit, which inspires a wide range of styles from photographic to abstract. This practical book, packed with images and enjoyable exercises, is designed for the beginner...

Airbrushing: The Essential Guide

by Fred Crellin

Airbrushing is a versatile and exciting art. The technique has been used for some 150 years, and is now finding ever more applications. This beautiful book explains how to use an airbrush. It looks at the fundamentals...

Botanical Illustration

by Valerie Oxley

Botanical Illustration is an introduction to the marrying of art and science in the aesthetic and accurate portrayal of plant material. This book builds on the work of illustrators of the past, ranging from...

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!

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...

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

by Linda Novick

Professional artist and beloved teacher Linda Novick leads you on an exploration of the divine connection you can experience through art. Each chapter includes a simple yoga-inspired breathing and stretching...

Donna Dewberry's Complete Book of One-Stroke Painting

by Donna Dewberry

Donna's unique One-Stroke method - which lets you blend, shade and highlight all in one stroke - makes painting quick and easy. And there's just no better way to learn this technique than by Donna's example....