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Barron's Beginner Art Guides: Color and Creativity Beginner Art Guides: Color and Creativity ISBN: 0764159100
Barron's Beginner Art Guides instruct you in techniques for mastering a variety of art styles and media. Color and Creativity presents easy-to-follow instruction and advice on mixing and contrasting colors on paper or canvas to create dramatic effects, or to evoke special moods and atmospheres. In addition to concise instruction, Color and Creativity also offers practical suggestions, instructive exercises, ideas for color experiments, and techniques you can learn in order to produce special visual effects. Follow this book's recommendations and guidance, master the challenges presented in each exercise, and you will rapidly gain confidence in your growing artistic skill. Book specifications: hardback, 64 pgs., 8 1/4 in. x 11 in. Publisher: Barron's, 2006.
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Chronicle Books Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist ISBN: 0811850935
Cay Lang's Taking the Leap has helped thousands of artists jumpstart their careers and make real the dream of exhibiting and selling their work. An internationally exhibited photographer and teacher, Lang offers the wisdom of experience, combined with enthusiasm and gentle humor, to guide artists through the ins and outs of the art business. Practical and inspiring, this revised and updated edition offers two new chapters – on using the Internet and the media to best effect – and provides step-by-step advice on preparing presentation materials; finding and dealing with galleries (as well as bypassing the traditional gallery system); handling rights, royalties, and taxes; an extensive resource list; and other invaluable information for both beginning artists and those ready to take the next step in their careers. Book specifications: paperback, 256 pgs., 7 in. x 9 1/4 in. Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2006.
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Dover Chinese Brush Painting: A Complete Course in Traditional and Modern Techniques Chinese Brush Painting: A Complete Course in Traditional and Modern Techn
Comprehensive "how-to" manual takes all levels of students through the creative process, providing detailed instructions for painting such simple subjects as bamboo and plum blossoms as well as more ambitious motifs: birds, fish, and landscapes. Numerous illustrations and paintings complement the text, with some sections describing how to adapt Chinese brush painting to Western subjects. Indispensable to anyone in search of new and exciting methods of artistic expression. 150 illustrations, including 82 in full color. Paperback book measures 8 in. x 10 7/8 in., 144 pages. Dover Publications, 2004. ISBN:0486436586.
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Dover Freehand Perspective and Sketching Freehand Perspective and Sketching ISBN: 0486447529
The essential guide to rendering perspective, this classic manual uses a series of illustrated exercises and explanations to help artists and students master one of art's greatest challenges. Generations of art students and amateurs have found it an indispensable resource of time-honored principles and methods. More than 260 figures offer precise demonstrations in the representations of shapes, shadows, angles, and proportion. This book provides a foundation of definite knowledge that enables artists to draw items individually or in groups without needing to see actual models. Book specifications: paperback, 192 pgs., 6 1/8 in. x 9 1/4 in. Publisher: Dover, 2006.
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Dover How To Draw How To Draw
This book makes it a snap to learn the basics of sketching familiar objects and animals. Simply by combining circles, ovals, rectangles, crescents, and other simple shapes, you'll learn not only how to master the fundamentals of shape development, but how to produce remarkable likenesses of such common objects as a pear, grapes, a flowerpot, a tricycle, a sailboat, and a house, as well as portraits of a cat, a rabbit, fish, a turtle, and other animals. By combining several subjects on one piece of paper, you can even create a tableau of assorted fruit or a menagerie of animals. And once a picture is completed, of course, it is ready to be colored. Paperback, 32 pages.ISBN:486415392. DOVER
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Dover How To Draw Animals How To Draw Animals
This easy-to-follow guide shows how simple it is to draw pictures of your favorite animals. With it you'll soon be able to create charming portraits of a dog, cat, leopard, moose, giraffe, panda, goose, duck, rooster, lamb, rabbit, cow, camel, elephant, and 16 other creatures. Clear, step-by-step diagrams explain how to join circles, ovals, and other shapes to create a zoo full of easily recognizable figures. Paperback, 32 pages.ISBN:486298671. DOVER
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Dover How To Draw Birds How To Draw Birds
This easy-to-follow guide makes it a snap for youngsters (and would-be artists of all ages) to create recognizable likenesses of a flock of feathered friends. Clear, step-by-step diagrams incorporating circles, ovals, and other simple shapes, show how to produce accurate images of 30 different birds. Beginners will learn how to create realistic pictures of a duck, peacock, turkey, cardinal, penguin, swan, toucan, ostrich, owl and other avian creatures. Paperback, 32 pages. ISBN:486403823. DOVER
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Dover How To Draw Cars and Trucks and Other Vehicles How To Draw Cars and Trucks and Other Vehicles
Children fascinated by cars and trucks will love learning to draw the variety of vehicles outlined in this simple, easy-to-follow guide. Step-by-step diagrams incorporating circles, semicircles, squares, rectangles and other common geometrical shapes help young artists design 28 different vehicles: fire engine, dump truck, bicycle, camper, submarine, helicopter, armored car, hot-air balloon and other contemporary conveyances. These designs are not only fun to draw, they will help youngsters grasp the fundamentals of line, shape, form and dimension. Paperback, 110 black-and-white illustrations, 32 pages.ISBN:486281140. DOVER
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Dover How To Draw Cats How To Draw Cats
With the help of this easy-to-follow guide, young feline fanciers will find it's a snap to create portraits of their furry friends. Simple step-by-step diagrams, incorporating a variety of circular, oval and other shapes, guide young artists along the way, demonstrating how to produce likenesses of 30 different subjects. The results are recognizable, accurately rendered pictures of cats and kittens in assorted poses: seated, stretching, preening, balanced on their hind legs, ready to pounce and other positions. In addition to domesticated cats, this delightful, entertaining guide also shows how to create a lion, bobcat, cheetah, tiger and other denizens of the wild. Paperback, 118 black-and-white illustrations, 32 pages. ISBN:486296210. DOVER
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Dover How To Draw Dogs How To Draw Dogs
This book is a delightful, fun-filled way for artists of all ages to learn how to draw 30 favorite breeds of dog from all the major families: sporting, terriers, hounds, nonsporting, herding, working dogs, and toys. Step-by-step instructions show would-be artists how to use simples shapes to create accurate, character-filled likenesses of a beagle, cocker spaniel, collie, Dalmation, Saint Bernard, poodle, Old English sheepdog, and 23 more. Paperback, introduction, captions, 32 pages.ISBN:486410587. DOVER
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Dover How to Draw Funny Faces How to Draw Funny Faces
Even beginning artists will find it a snap to create humorous portraits with the help of this easy-to-follow guide. Basic, step-by-step diagrams show how to draw little girls with unusual ponytails, a bearded leprechaun, a balding man, a lady with a funny hat, and other funny faces just by combining ovals and circles and adding some curvy lines and squiggles. 116 black-and-white illustrations. 32 pages. ISBN 0486423972
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Dover How To Draw Insects How To Draw Insects
This easy-to-follow guide makes it simple for youngsters--and aspiring artists of all ages--to create recognizable likenesses of 30 different insects. By following clear, step-by-step illustrations, nature artists will learn how to use circles, ovals, and other shapes to draw simple, lifelike portraits of a grasshopper, monarch butterfly, tarantula, caterpillar, cicada, praying mantis, walkingstick, scorpion, yellow jacket, wasp, carpenter ant, moth, and other insects. Paperback, 32 pages.ISBN:486405893. DOVER
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Dover How to Draw People How to Draw People
Simple, step-by-step diagrams in this "how to" book make it easy for youngsters--and would-be artists of all ages--to draw people of all shapes and sizes, engaged in a variety of activities. Simply by joining circles, ovals, rectangles, cylinders, and other shapes, beginning artists will be able to create amazing likenesses of a boy on a swing, a fireman, drummer, mailman, cowboy, a girl rollerskating, an artist, and 23 other subjects. Dover Original. Introduction. 30 pages of black-and-white illustrations. ISBN 0486420604
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Dover How To Draw Wild Animals How To Draw Wild Animals
It's easy to draw charming renditions of 30 favorite wild animals with this delightful guide. Would-be artists of all ages will find it a snap to follow simple, step-by-step instructions that show you how to use basic shapes to draw a gorilla, koala, penguin, mustang, buffalo, alligator, cobra, ostrich, and 22 other wild animals. As you create a gallery of drawings you'll be proud to display for friends and family, you'll also receive a solid introduction to the fundamentals of line, shape, and dimension. Paperback, 32 pages.ISBN:486408213. DOVER
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Dover Learning to Draw: A Creative Approach Learning to Draw: A Creative Approach ISBN: 0486447863
Expert guide and teacher Robert Kaupelis offers sound advice on drawing methods and techniques for artists at all levels. Using the lessons and practices he employed over the years as an instructor, Kaupelis focuses on solving the problems common to many illustrators, among them perspective, form, modeling, and drawing from memory and projected images. A splendid blend of instruction, analysis, and insight, this volume is one of the most widely read art instruction texts. The book includes 134 black-and-white illustrations. Book specifications: paperback, 144 pgs., 8 3/8 in. x 11 in. Publisher: Dover, 2006.
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Dover Notan: The Dark-Light Principle of Design Notan: The Dark-Light Principle of Design
As a guiding principle of Eastern art and design, Notan (a Japanese word meaning dark-light) focuses on the interaction between positive and negative space, a relationship embodied in the ancient symbolism of the Yang and the Yin. In composition, it recognizes the separate but equally important identity of both shape and its background. Clearly and concisely, the authors demonstrate Notan's practical application in six problems of progressive difficulty--creative excercises that will fascinate artists and designers of every calling and level of expertise. Paperback, 80 pages.ISBN:048626856X. DOVER
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Dover Perspective Perspective
This book, the last and greatest of Vredeman's books, perpetuated not only the Renaissance interest in the subject, but also the important work done by Durer, from who Vredeman acquired much of his knowledge. The engravings are demonstrations on Vredeman's theories of perspective, and include exteriors of architectural structures, Gothic interiors, gardens, medieval townscapes, and views into domes or vaults and down many-tiered stairwells. Included are 73 plates reproduced from the 1604/5 edition, plus original title pages and dedication pages with new translations by Stanley Appelbaum. Paperback, 74 pages. ISBN:486201864. DOVER
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Dover Victorian Fret-Work and Wood Carving Victorian Fret-Work and Wood Carving ISBN: 0486445755
This practical guide of timeless information provides a wide range of pointers – from getting started, selecting necessary tools and appropriate woods, to important directions for tracing and transferring patterns; oiling, staining, and varnishing; carving in relief, fret-cutting, and other popular techniques. The book contains instructions and 67 designs for creating monograms, inscriptions, florals, vines, animal forms, and more. These designs are appropriate for applying to photo album and scrapbook covers, picture and mirror frames, and other domestic accessories. Book specifications: paperback, 64 pgs., 9 in. x 12 in. Publisher: Dover, 2005.
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Heinemann Library How Artists Use Book Series Perspective
The books in the How Artists Use series explore the characteristics of color, pattern and texture, line and tone, shape, and perspective. Take a close-up look at these characteristics in works of art by well-known artists. Activities in each book help you use these characteristics in your own work. Learn how artists from the beginning of time to the present day have used these characteristics in their work. By Paul Flux. For ages 6-8, grade level 1-3. Heinemann Library, 2001. There are five paperback books in this series. Each book has 32 pages and measures 7 7/8 in. x 8 15/16 in. You'll find the answers to these questions and more as you read each book: Color: What are primary colors? How can artists use color to make things in their pictures "jump out" at you? How can colors be used to show different moods and feelings? Line and Tone: What is a line? What is tone? How do artists use lines to make pictures seem to move? Pattern and Texture: What is Op Art? Where do we find patterns and texture in everyday life? What is an engraving? Perspective (shown): How do artists create a sense of depth in their paintings? What is a vanishing point? How do artists use color to make things look far away? Shape: What is Cubism? How is shape used in sculpture? How did prehistoric artists use shapes in their drawings?
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Lickle Publishing Come Look With Me: Discovering Women Artists for Children Come Look With Me: Discovering Women Artists for Children ISBN: 1890674087
Come Look With Me: Discovering Women Artists for Children introduces children to twelve magnificent works of art. Children will share the excitement of Sofonisba Anguissola and her sisters; and feel their determination as they play in "The Chess Player." They will relax with Mary Cassatt in "The Tea Party," looking at how women lived, and ask questions about the roles women take. Children will also have fun examining their own faces and dress with Frieda Kahlo's "Self Portrait With Monkey." In this study of women artists, children will become familiar with painters who are often forgotten in art history books because of their gender. All these works are striking images, created by women who would not let society's gender biases deter their love of art and their creativity, and who, today, can be accepted as equals. From the medieval realism in Artemesia Gentileschi's "Lute Player," to the Impressionism of Berthe Morisot's "The Coiffure," children can explore what differences there are in a woman's way of painting and what they see. They can end up softly with Grandma Moses' "Sugaring Off," or they can tease out the story in Faith Ringgold's "Love in the School Yard." Book specifications: hardcover, 32 pgs., 10 in. x 10 in. Publisher: Lickle Publishing, 2005.
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