Category: How to Art Books

Teach Yourself Henna Tattoo: Making Mehndi Art with Easy-to-Follow Instructions, Patterns, and Projects

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 401535

ISBN-13: 9781574214147

Color your world with the fabulous art of henna tattoo. Mehndi, also known as henna tattoo, is a traditional Middle Eastern art used to adorn the body for weddings and other special celebrations. Today, you can join in the beauty and fun of mendhi with this simple book of patterns and instructions for the body and even home decor objects Inside, you will find a variety of original henna tatttoo patterns that can be applied to the hands, feet, belly and back. You'll also be interested in creating your own designs by following the simple instructions for the 5 basic henna shapes and learn how t...
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Artist's Guide to Drawing Animals

By: Amberlyn, J.C.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: : September 2016

Seller ID: 770137

ISBN-13: 9780823014231

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

In this step-by-step how-to guide to creating classic portraits of animals in pencil and pen-and-ink, artist J. C. Amberlyn combines her love of pets and other familiar domestic creatures with her beautiful, detailed drawing style. Covering a variety of animals from dogs and cats to barnyard critters like cows and sheep and many more, the book covers every species with easy-to-follow instructions for drawing them from every angle imaginable. Along with seven featured examinations of Amberlyn's artistic process, each chapter showcases the tools and techniques needed to produce your own highly d...
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The Fundamentals of Drawing Still Life

By: Barber, Barrington

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Barnes&noble books : January 2004

Seller ID: 483465

ISBN-13: 9780760761908

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Drawing Academy (Drawing Academy Series)

By: Barron's

Price: $7.50

Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing : February 2009

Seller ID: 799377

ISBN-13: 9780764161834

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The format of this comprehensive four-part course for art students is based on drawing courses given at major art schools. Originally available as four separate smaller volumes, this much larger new book brings all four parts together in a complete program that teaches students every aspect of the art of drawing. Part One. The Basics of Drawing --Discusses and illustrates the materials, the tools, and the fundamental principles of form, proportions, tonal ranges, and more. Part Two. Line and Shading in Drawing --Controlling the width and intensity of lines in your drawings, and developing...
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The Pencil Artist's Handbook (Artist's Handbook Series)

By: Barron's

Price: $5.00

Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing : March 2004

Seller ID: 799385

ISBN-13: 9780764156229

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Every well-rounded artist needs to be adept at sketching with pencils. Here is advice on the use of different types of pencil and appropriate papers, as well as instruction on sketching virtually everything from portraits to landscapes. Here is a new title in this exceptional art instruction series for advanced students and amateurs will also find a place on the professional artist's bookshelf. All books in the series are sturdily bound and can be taken out to the field for quick reference while the artist is at work on a painting. Their hidden spiral binding lets them lie flat while they're o...
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Creative Watercolor: Step-By-Step Guide and Showcase

By: Beckwith, Mary Ann,Liebrock, Lorie M.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Rockport Pub : February 1996

Seller ID: 713492

ISBN-13: 9781564961723

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The innovative techniques of 9 accomplished artists provide an inside look at the unending possibilities of watercolor.
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Making Art a Practice: How to Be the Artist You Are

By: Bennett, Cat

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Findhorn Press : June 2013

Seller ID: 800835

ISBN-13: 9781844096077

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Helping artists catapult into further action, this guide is a treasury of insight and inspiration. Rather than focus on art techniques that build skills or overcome creative blocks through playful activities or writing, this guide walks the artist through exercises designed to develop the personal qualities critical to being an artist in the world, such as courage, the ability to look and see, and connection to the true creative self. This is a hands-on, experiential action book designed to get the reader creating art and exploring a variety of possibilities for being an artist. According to t...
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The Urban Sketching Handbook Working with Color: Techniques for Using Watercolor and Color Media on the Go (Volume 7) (Urban Sketching Handbooks, 7)

By: Blaukopf, Ms. Shari

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Quarry Books : March 2019

Seller ID: 785569

ISBN-13: 9781631596803

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Learn to express yourself through color while painting on location with the in-depth tips and techniques of Working with Color, the fifth volume in the Urban Sketching Handbook series. Expert watercolorist, illustrator, instructor, and co-founder of Urban Sketchers Montreal Shari Blaukopf shares her essential color tips about color-water ratio, achieving bold color, avoiding muddy washes, painting in layers, and using wet-in-wet techniques. This essential handbook covers: supplies and materialssample color palettescolor mixingusing limited palettesmonochrome sketchesthe power of complementary ...
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Everyday Work of Art: Awakening the Extraordinary in Your Daily Life

By: Booth, Eric

Price: $6.00

Publisher: : November 2009

Seller ID: 510939

ISBN-13: 9780595193806

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Painter's Secret Geometry: A Study of Composition in Art (Dover Books on Fine Art)

By: Bouleau, Charles

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dover Publications : August 2014

Seller ID: 798164

ISBN-13: 9780486780405

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This is an outstanding text for teachers and students. -- The Studio This richly illustrated examination of visual arts in the European tradition shows how the great masters employed the golden mean and other geometrical patterns to compose their paintings. Author Charles Bouleau explores a tremendous variety of ancient and modern works: the Parthenon friezes, Italian mosaics, the Bayeux Tapestry, and Gothic stonemasons' marks of France and Germany as well as paintings by Picasso, Kandinsky, Klee, and Pollock. His insightful expositions cast new light on such well-known works as Raphael's The ...
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Book of a Hundred Hands (Dover Anatomy for Artists)

By: Bridgman, George B.

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 748571

ISBN-13: 9780486227092

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Mr. Bridgman states unequivocally in his introduction that before preparing this book he had "not discovered a single volume devoted exclusively to the depicting of the hand." Apparently Mr. Bridgman has appreciated what few others have felt -- the human hand's great capacity for expression and the care that the artist must take to realize it. The hand changes with the age of the person, is shaped differently according to sex, reflects the type of work to which it is put, the physical health, and even the emotions of the person. To represent these distinguishing features, to capture the expres...
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The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes: Glazing & Firing at Cone 10 (A Lark Ceramics Book)

By: Britt, John

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Lark Books : September 2004

Seller ID: 471265

ISBN-13: 9781579904258

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

For the clay enthusist whose previous experience with glazes and firing has been in low-fire work, this book is a good introduction to the world of high-fire glazes. He provides hundreds of illustrated recipes with mixing, application and firing instructions, and explains what makes glazes work.
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Ways of Being: Advice for Artists by Artists

By: Cahill, James

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing : August 2018

Seller ID: 797818

ISBN-13: 9781786273079

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

How do you be an artist? How do you become one in the first place, and what sort of advice should you heed along the way? Is art a 'career', or a vocation? Do you need a studio or a dealer, and how do you find one? Are artists too competitive? How do they come up with ideas, and what is the point of the private view? Does financial success--or the lack of it--change an artist? What are the advantages of getting older? How do older artists look back on their earlier work, and is it possible for an artist to ever retire? Based upon advice from a huge roster of artists, dealers and curators; and ...
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The Artist's Way

By: Cameron, Julia

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Tarcher : July 1992

Seller ID: 639205

ISBN-13: 9780874776942

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Artist's Way

By: Cameron, Julia

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Tarcher : July 1992

Seller ID: 811019

ISBN-13: 9780874776942

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Vein of Gold

By: Cameron, Julia

Price: $6.00

Publisher: : March 2015

Seller ID: 753863

ISBN-13: 9780874778793

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart, Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way, draws from her remarkable teaching experience to help readers reach out into ever-broadening creative horizons. As in The Artist's Way, she combines eloquent essays with playful and imaginative experiential exercises to make The Vein of Gold an extraordinary book of learning-through-doing. Inspiring essays on the creative process and more than one hundred engaging and energizing tasks involve the reader in inner play, leading to authentic growth, renewal, and healing.
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Walking in this World

By: Cameron, Julia

Price: $7.00

Publisher: : December 2010

Seller ID: 753861

ISBN-13: 9781585421831

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Ten years ago Julia Cameron published a groundbreaking work that offered an original and astoundingly effective twelve-week course in creative discovery. With nearly two million copies sold, "The Artist's Way" is now a classic cherished by the aspiring and working artists who have experienced its rich benefits. "Walking in This World" picks up where "The Artist's Way" left off to present readers with a second twelve-week course-Part Two in an amazing journey toward discovering our human potential. In "Walking in This World," Cameron shows readers how to inhabit the world with a sense of wonde...
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An Introduction to Painting the Nude

By: Carr, David

Price: $4.00

Publisher: : January 2011

Seller ID: 519901

ISBN-13: 9781555219024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Step-by-step instruction in painting the nude - oils and watercolors. A palette of colors to depict flesh tones and capture the play of light and shadow on the body. Full color.
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Mastering the Potter's Wheel: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks for Potters

By: Carter, Ben

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 786133

ISBN-13: 9780760349755

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Take your skills--and your work--to the next level.Mastering the Potter's Wheel starts with an introduction to wheel-throwing, from centering to creating the basic forms. What pushes this book beyond the competition, however, are the techniques offered in the chapters that follow. From a variety of methods for throwing large objects such as pitchers and platters, to alterations, darting, and paddling, this book offers potters a world of possibilities. With galleries featuring today's top working artists, including Kyle Carpenter, Sam Chung, Chandra DeBuse, Julia Galloway, Martha Grover, Ayumie...
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How to Paint Living Portraits

By: Clark, Roberta Carter

Price: $6.50

Publisher: North Light Books : August 1990

Seller ID: 553510

ISBN-13: 9780891343264

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Provides a wealth of ideas and a thorough introduction to the special craft of portraiture. Includes 24 step-by-step demonstrations.
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Category: How to Art Books