Tweens and teens will love this fun, photo-packed guide to makeup from one of the industry's top professionals! Novice users get all the basics they need-tips on tools and application techniques, ways to use color, and steps for basic skin care. More than 35 looks are then grouped by "expression" to..
The Animator's Workbook offers a complete course on the principles and techniques of drawn animation. Stressing that animation is a subtle and exacting art form which breathes life into inanimate drawings, Tony White, an award-winning animator, covers every aspect of the process. He provides technic..
Offers a brief overview of the history of mosaics; discusses essential materials, equipment, and techniques; and provides ten step-by-step projects Author: Chavarria, Joaquim Publisher: Watson-Guptill Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0823058646 ISBN-13: 9780823058648..
Pastel has long been considered an ideal medium for painting portraits. Here, noted pastelist Madlyn-Ann Woolwich calls on a group of outstanding artists to demonstrate the important elements that go into creating successful portraits in pastel. Luminous portraits throughout the book demonstrate an ..
From dust jacket notes: "...The famed author-artist takes a profound look at his favorite medium, offering his experience and his personal insights on the materials and tools of pencil drawing. Here are Ernest Watson's own approaches to creative observation of nature: pictorial composition; problems..
Shows a variety of drawings of landscapes, buildings, and architectural details, and offers advice on papers, pencils, and erasers, as well as pattern, shadow, texture, and perspective Author: Ernest W. Watson Publisher: Watson-Guptill Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0823002764 ISBN-13..
When The Art of Polymer Clay first appeared in 1997, polymer clay was undergoing a revival in the U.S., but its full creative potential had yet to be explored. With this book, author and artist Donna Kato helped change all that by introducing crafters to the vast range of polymer clay techniques, fr..
Now published in full color for the first time, and with many new illustrations, this revised edition of The Art of Watercolor is a complete update of the classic text on this most popular of mediums. In a refreshing and entertaining style, Charles Le Clair covers every aspect of painting in waterco..
Collects the "Painter of Light's" plein art works, discussing the plein art tradition and providing a biographical essay that explores the artist's personal, artistic, and spiritual experiences as they relate to his approach to nature painting. Author: Doherty, M. Stephen Publisher: Watson-Guptill B..
Comprehensive, lavishly illustrated, and loaded with specific, step-by-step instruction, this book is for budding illustrators and graphic designers seeking a basic guide to all aspects of the art of airbrush painting. The Big Book of Airbrush provides a thorough overview of all the equipment techni..
In this exhaustive introduction to ceramics, all the materials, equipment, and techniques of the craft are presented clearly and accessibly. An easy-to-follow text is accompanied by hundreds of color photographs and schematic drawings that illustrate every material, technique, piece of equipment, an..
Decorative painting - the ornamentation of wood, tin, glass, paper, and other surfaces with painted designs - requires no previous artistic training or drawing skill. The Big Book of Decorative Painting contains invaluable information on this delightful and imaginative craft for artists and crafters..
Introduces the tools, materials, and techniques of pastel drawing, and presents a series of demonstrations with photographs of the original scene for comparison Author: Shaw, John Publisher: Watson-Guptill Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0823005046 ISBN-13: 9780823005048..
Depict the play of light on spring foliage silhouetted against a dark sky. Paint a vivid sunset over a lake. Capture the drama of waves surging toward the shore. The Big Book of Painting Nature in Watercolor provides 135 stimulating demonstrations in painting trees, skies, and water from beautiful p..
Rock, country, classical, hip hop, folk, world, dance-virtually every combination thereof and every major player therein-will be found within the pages of the most authoritative, informative, and entertaining guide to music ever published.Genres Covered:• Rock• Pop• Classical• Jazz• Blues• Gospel• S..
• 25 fun, easy ideas for turning cardboard boxes into cool toys and games• Great for getting kids away from video games• “I’m bored” Try cardboard!Since the beginning of time, parents have known that there is no point buying Junior a fabulous, expensive toy; Junior always dismisses the toy and play..
All of Chris Hart’s how-to-draw titles are best-sellers. And the best-sellers among all of his best-sellers are the ones about animals. How to Draw Cartoon Animals, just one example, appears regularly on the BookScan Top 50 Art Books list, with more than 190,000 copies sold. Now The Cartoonist’s Big..
The Chinese have a saying, “From heart to arm . . . to hand . . . to brush . . . to paper.” This epitomizes the concept of Hsieh-i, or the “written idea,” the spontaneous, expressive approach to Chinese brush painting known as the Literati, or free-form style.In The Ch’i of the Brush, artist Nan Rae..
No one who works in colored pencil-or wants to-can afford to be without this book, which is the most complete resource on the medium. The revised edition provides the latest information on colored pencils while retaining the best feature of the original: Bogeson's beautiful artwork; authoritative in..
Provides information for making all types of dolls, including techniques for drawing and coloring faces, styling the hair, dressmaking, and tips on what type of equipment to use Author: Merrett, Alicia Publisher: Watson-Guptill Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0823007731 ISBN-13: 978082..
Aptly called "painting with scissors," decou-page is the art of decorating a surface with cut-out paper images, as beautifully documented in this overflowing archive of popular decoupage subjects. The book opens with a brief history of the craft and provides concise instructions for cutting out moti..
The Eight : The Realist Revolt in American Painting Author: Young, Mahonri Sharp Publisher: Watson-Guptill Binding: hardcover Language: english ISBN-10: 0823016072 ISBN-13: 9780823016075..
Photographs show male and female nudes leaping, bending, stretching, marching, dancing, and turning Author: Thomas Easley Publisher: Watson-Guptill Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0823016927 ISBN-13: 9780823016921..