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Over 60 watercolour challenges to work through in your own time to help build confidence and have fun.

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Terry Harrison presents a refreshingly simple guide that is packed with excellent, easy-to-follow demonstrations illustrating how to create stunning paintings. Acrylics are easy to master and extremely versatile. Paint can be applied thick like oils, or in washes like watercolour.

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In addition to instructions on color mixing, paper selection, and proper brush handling, this handbook and teacher's guide features full-color plates of practice brushstrokes and designs incorporating Art Nouveau, Etruscan, and Hispano-Moresque ornaments.

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The notorious bad boy of Italian painting is now considered one of the greatest masters in art history. This neat catalogue raisonn reproduces all of Caravaggio's paintings as well as a number of details of his boundary-breaking realism. Five chapters assess his artistic achievements while a detailed chronology traces his dramatic personal life.

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Christian Hellmich's painting is characterised by gestural abstraction and the experimental organisation of pictorial space. The medialised society and its handling of images function as guiding themes. Text in English and German.

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Over 200 tips, techniques and expert advice make this a comprehensive guide to watercolour painting.

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A stunning visual celebration of the art of painting, bring together contemporary works from all over the world

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Create abstract mixed media art using easy techniques and a variety of fun art materials. Discover tips and tricks to create your own vibrant art, letting the watercolor flow to form the composition and inspire mixed media embellishment. Through a variety of projects, you'll learn to use color, texture, and contrast to create stunning abstract art.

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In this account, Jean-Louis Gaillemin focuses on the intimate details of Salvador Dali's life, especially his intense and often fractious relationship with his long-time lover, muse and inspiration Gala, and explores the way in which his psychological views and state of mind influenced his work.

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Be inspired by watercolour master David Bellamy and learn how to paint glorious landscapes, capturing the natural countryside in all its moods.

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Accomplished art instructor Julie Gilbert Pollard offers expert advice on oil painting through the lens of the common landscape.

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With easy, step-by-step instructions and achievable watercolour techniques, artist Bianca Rosen guides beginner watercolourists to create breathtaking floral paintings.

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Documents Edward Bawden's artistic portrayal of World War II.

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Bridget Riley's Op art paintings are icons of the 1960s, and fascinate art lovers as much now as they did then. Their central position in the art history of the period has not been generally explored, however - until now.

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Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was arguably one of the greatest artists of the twentieth-century. The violent intensity with which his paintings give expression to the existential angst of his fellow human beings is virtually without parallel in the history of art. This title displays the unique work of Bacon.

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This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book on the work of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th century s greatest painters, takes an in-depth look at his trademark motif of figures imprisoned within ghostly frames. "

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Produced to accompany an exhibition running at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, from 7 November 2003 to 15 February 2004, this volume features works by such great French artists as Degas and Delacroix.

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First collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini's passion for painting

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This major reference work concentrates on British flower painting from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. The dictionary provides the biographical details of almost 1000 British flower painters, including specialties, awards and exhibitions.