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 ...

This ebook is a must for those who paint in watercolor because the essence of this volume is all about edge control. This is crucial for a watercolor artist as the medium is not as forgiving as oils, acrylics or pastels. The issues discussed will empower all artists with knowledge about a sky and how to create the elusive transience that is so important for a real sense of this part of our world. Painting en plein air is the best place to develop an undersatnding of this aspect of nature a...

As part of a 10 ebook series this volume, 3, "Fabulous Flowers - Celebrate Color" by Ev Hales is an excuse to explore color almost without bounadries. Flowers have been part of our visual heritage for centuries and as such have always inspired the artist, whatever medium has been used. Discussion of pattern and how to use this to enable an artist to say little but communicate effectively is a skill you will use with any subject you enjoy. Discover how flowers can be presented as part of a ...

Discover the Path to Spiritual GrowthJesus frequently used fruitfulness as a metaphor of growth and vitality in our faith. Just as a plant's fruitfulness reveals its health, there are spiritual characteristics that reveal our own growth and vitality.But how do we get a life of fruitful obedience when we're exhausted, anxious, and busy? Jesus tells and shows us the way in his most famous sermon, The Sermon on the Mount. Much more than a list of rules–we disc...

Painting buildings is a subject that can cause an artist a degree of stress because there is an element of exactness that seems necessary to create illusions of buildings on a flat surface. Some people get bogged down in the mathematics of linear perspective used by architects and lose all freedom and creativity. This ebook explores a variety of ways that help you retain the creative aspect of painting as well as achieving a reality of the building structure. This frees the artistic approa...

John Wesley Hales (1836-1914), was a British scholar, writer, man of letters and professor of English literature at King’s College in London. During his life Hales published 109 works in 300 publications in 5 languages.The Hales’ work The Leper was published in 1860 on Once a Week, a magazine of Literature, Art, Science and popular information.Leprosy was one of the greatest dramas in the history of mankind. It has affected humanity for thousands of years an...

An inspiring ebook based on instructional painting ideas and techniques for artists. Utilize the concept of painting less to say more when focusing on still water. Still water is a reflective surface offering the artist many possibilities for evocative and mood filled imagery. Explore the issues related to creating depth across a flat horizontal surface; edge control; tonal gradation and color. Soak up the tranquillity and mystique that is inevitably linked to areas with still water. Obser...

Energy, sound and rhythm all combine when water is moving fast. This painting instruction ebook takes you on a ride down the rapids as you explore moving water and the potential of this subject when in an artist’s hands. Find patterns that help create the illusion of movement. Specific brush techniques illustrate freedom with your brushwork and when this is combined with a suitable painting surface you will capture the energy of moving water on a flat surface. Waves, waterfalls, rivers are...

This book consists of two titles, which are the following:Book 1: Have you ever considered hypnosis?What does hypnosis do? And why is there so much confusion about it?These and many other questions will be answered in this guide. Along with this, you will read or hear more about the benefits and the disadvantages of hypnosis, how it is used for clinical treatments, how it can heal our bodies, why so many people use it to control their weight, sleeping patterns, or f...

“This collection made me laugh and made me cry, but more importantly, it helped me find beauty in the struggle of being human.” — Katherine Cowley“Both saintly and Latter-day Saint, these poems find humor and holiness in belief, suffering, history, and family.” — Jim Richards“Sacred Scar is both profoundly personal and generally appealing.” — Gabriel González NúñezSacred Scar is a luminous, unflinching collection of poems that moves effortlessly be...

As always Ev Hales is practical and clear with her analysis and communication. The images, in excess of 150, will intrigue and help you see the world around you a little differently. I will be surprised if you are not itching to pick up your brush after exploring this Volume 9 in this exciting series “Painting with Ev Hales”.