A Guide to Navigate Evangelical FeminismIn a society where gender roles are a hot-button topic, the church is not immune to the controversy. In fact, the church has wrestled with varying degrees of evangelical feminism for decades. As evangelical feminism has crept into the church, time-trusted resources like Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood help remind Christians of what the Bible has to say.In this edition of the award-winning best selle...

Simple secrets for colors that singDon't settle for colors that just sit there. Inspired by the work of the great Impressionists, Color Harmonies shows you how to use analogous colors (colors next to each other on the color wheel) and their complements to achieve lively, glowing effects. By keeping palette-mixing to a minimum, placing pure color notes side by side, and applying other simple but powerful color tricks, you'll create sparkling passages of col...

Transform your paintings from ordinary to extraordinary - with light!Want to paint light-filled watercolors that reach out and draw viewers in? In this book, award-winning watercolorist and teacher Susan Bourdet shows you how. Through simple concepts and detailed step-by-step demonstrations, Susan demystifies the process of successfully depicting light in watercolor. You'll learn how to:• Create convincing light effects and rich shadows• Depict diffe...

The beauty of a watercolor painting lies in its diaphanous layers, delicate strokes, and luminous washes. However, the very features that define the beauty of the medium can make it difficult to master. This complete guide to understanding the relationships between color, value, wetness, and composition unravels the mysteries of watercolor to help your practice evolve.Experienced teacher and acclaimed artist Tom Hoffmann offers a unique, inquiry-based approach that shows you how to...

Claudia Nice shows you how to turn ink and watercolors into the coarse-barked trunk of an oak, or the burnished smoothness of brass, or the verdant velvet of moss. Or any of many other things. She shows you how to use dots, fine lines, brushstrokes, black and white, color-a mixture of mediums and techniques-to suggest:• glass• cast iron• adobe and brick• sunrise and sunset• driftwood• leaf textures• basketry• surf and ocean waves

Capture the Rich Textures of Nature, Step by StepCapture nature's beauty as you never have before. Beloved artist and teacher Claudia Nice leads you on an inspired journey through the great outdoors. With paints in hand, she shares with you her best techniques for creating landscapes that come alive with richness, depth and textured detail.Open this guide and start painting right away. As you follow engaging, step-by-step demonstrations and...

Learn great lessons about how you can incorporate great design elements into your composition, including five easy formulas that will ensure a strong image every single time. But don't let your great design be ruined by muddy colors! These lessons go beyond color wheel instruction to teach how to achieve tones from skin color to sky and foliage, all of which sets up the final section, where you'll learn great approaches to popular subjects ranging from animals and nature to man-made object...

This book makes watercolour painting simple, straightforward and fun: 43 mini-demonstrations teach a wide range of useful watercolour techniques. 13 step-by-step demonstrations show these techniques applied to landscapes, flowers and other subjects. Page after page of proven approaches for painting clouds, trees, rocks, grass, snow, reflections and more. These are tried-and-true methods that Zoltan perfected over 65 years of painting. Now you can put them to work in your paintings immediat...

Harness the power of negative space!Breathe new life into your art through negative painting. Linda Kemp shares her techniques for using the strength of negative space - the areas not occupied by subject matter - to create alluring works of art.Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines is a comprehensive guide to evoking more passion in your paintings. You'll learn how to take hold of the often-overlooked areas of a painting through interactive, easy t...

Paint Watercolors that Shine!Make the most of watercolor's fresh, vibrant nature through light, color and contrast. In the first few chapters, artist Soon Y. Warren helps you lay the groundwork - everything from choosing and lighting subjects to color theory and perspective. Then, follow along with a thrilling series of step-by-step demonstrations to put your ideas into action for paintings that shine!• Learn how color, value, contrast and ...

Painting with the watercolor medium is a partnership. You bring to the process your ideas and images and the medium takes them to another place all together. You can fight the medium and try to contain it within set boundaries or you can work with it and find unexplored territory when it shows you other ways of making color sing on the paper. Being able to set the medium free is all about understanding what will and what will not hurt you. This small ebook is big on helpful, empowering adv...

Landscapes is a favorite painting subject. We all live in the natural world and have personl responses to specific places. This ebook explores a variety of the aspects of the land that are used in any or all landscape paintings. Specifically the earth parts of the landscape. A variety of approaches are discussed and methods that can be employed to assist any artists interested in this process. Specific discussion is given to watercolor and this medium is fully explored in relation to this ...