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A practical guide that covers everything you will need to know about painting clouds and skies in oils and how to capture the beauty and drama of the sky.

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Painting flowers is a joyful experience - to capture and celebrate the colour, form and beauty of flowers in watercolour is an endlessly exciting pursuit. This book encourages you to experiment and play when you paint, to enjoy the process of creating a painting, and to develop your own style as you observe and render either a single stem or a full floral abstract.

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Pastels are an extremely versatile and immediate medium. These characteristics can lead to bold, exciting and impromptu paintings. However, their responsive, flexible nature can also be used to create subtle, gentle colour with little or no texture. This practical book guides you through the full scope of painting in pastels.

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Over the centuries, landscape painting has attracted countless artists. Its diversity, enhanced by the weather, special lighting conditions and seasonal change, offers the painter an infinite variety of subject matter. Oils are an extremely versatile and immediate medium, enabling artists to express themselves in a variety of creative ways.

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Topics covered include: Preliminary sketches Useful techniques Working with colour Evoking an atmosphere Capturing light and shade

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An instructional guide to appreciating the approach and techniques of the Impressionists, and learn to paint in their style.

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Miniatures are not simply small paintings: special techniques are used to achieve their unique glow and luminosity. This book explains how to paint in detail in a small format with colour and precision. It gives an introduction to the history and traditions of miniatures set by Holbein, Hilliard and Oliver.

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'What fascinates me most, much much more than anything else in painting, is the portrait, the modern portrait.' Vincent van Gogh

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Paint and capture the faces and character of people. Uses examples of different ages and race Looks at what our faces have in common and how to capture differences Explores both realistic and expressive colour Step-by-step demonstrations of techniques Encourages a personal style Gives ideas for mixed media experimentation

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In this detailed and practical book, Simon Davis opens up his studio and explains his approach. As one of the country's leading portrait painters, he gives a unique insight into how to render a sympathetic portrait in oils, which avoids sentimentality and captures the essence of a child, in oils.

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Focusing on watercolour - one of the most direct of mediums - this practical book explains how to paint a river and capture its life, light, movement, colour and interest.

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Gouache is an exciting, forgiving and versatile fine art medium. It has a long history going back many centuries, but for some time it has been seen as a medium for illustrators and designers. This book explores its attributes and explains how it can be used to exciting and stunning effect when painting still life.

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This book guides you from the beginning stages of painting a single object to more challenging and complex groups, and finally to a range of approaches to abstract painting.

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From the very beginnings of human existence, the urge to make images of people has been a fundamental part of being. Paintings of people have continued to evolve through to the present time. This book focuses on some of those paintings, and places the idea of looking at painting at the very centre of the process of making paintings.

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A practical guide that explains the key elements of portraying and capturing the beauty and mood of the mountains in oil paint and acrylics.

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The nude has inspired artists for centuries and continues to inspire us today. Alongside a historical study of the nude in painting, this book introduces oil paint and gives advice on techniques when using this challenging and rewarding medium.

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Cities provide endless exciting scenes for the artist, from sun-baked cafes, rain-soaked streets, illuminated nightscapes and busy squares to quiet, atmospheric corners. This book explains how to paint these scenes using water-based painting materials and new techniques.

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Learn how to capture the moment in watercolour and enjoy the thrill of painting outdoors. Materials and equipment. Finding a subject. Themes to try Techniques. Coping with onsite challenges. Using a sketchbook.

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A beautiful book that shows how to paint with watercolour on canvas to achieve bold, stunning results.

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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.

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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. Written by a professional painter, it encourages artists of all levels to experiment with the medium and to develop their art.

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Watercolours are the first choice for many painters, but few master the full potential of the medium. This book encourages you to be bold and colourful. It offers practical ways of working with watercolours, and shares ideas and thoughts that can make your painting methods more exciting and adventurous.