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  • Émile Gallé

    by Émile Gallé ...
    An icon in the Art Nouveau movement, Émile Gallé (1846-1904) sought to portray the beauty and simplicity of nature in his glass art. His designs, referred to as “poetry in glass”, range from fine pottery to jewellery to furniture. Everything Gallé produced contains traces of his masterful technique which reflects his innovativeness as an artist and his skill as a designer. In this rich text, Gallé ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Édouard Manet and artworks

    Manet is one of the most famous artists from the second half of the nineteenth century linked to the impressionists, although he was not really one of them. He had great influence on French painting partly because of the choice he made for his subjects from everyday life, the use of pure colours, and his fast and free technique. He made, in his own work, the transition between Courbet’s Realism ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zen and the Art of Art: Foundations

    Learn to paint and draw with the step by step guidance of a kind Zen Art Master

    Series Book 1 - Zen and the Art of Art
    Jojo’s eyes widened.‘Welcome,’ said The Master.Zen and the Art of Art: Foundations will show you:How to paint or draw like a pro, even if you’ve never picked up a brush before8 ways to work magic with a brush, how to mix natural greens the easy way, and how to paint trees that look realHow to avoid the 3 most common mistakes beginners make with their paintings6 different colour m... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Your Year in Art: Watercolor

    A project for every week of the year to inspire creative exploration in watercolor painting

    Series series Your Year in Art
    Overcome your creative blocks and fears and start painting with confidence with Your Year in Art: Watercolor! Filled with weekly art challenges, step-by-step watercolor lessons, helpful tips and techniques, and gorgeous artwork, this follow-up to the drawing-focused Your Year in Art is a must-have for any watercolor artist.Written and illustrated by Kristin Van Leuven, owner of the popular online ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Your Artist's Voice

    by Malcolm Dewey ...
    Artists often confuse their style with the concept of an artist's voice. Very often the idea of having an "artist's voice" is not considered at all. This can hamper the artist's development and create confusion among potential collectors. Ultimately the artist's career can be impacted. In this short book I seek to lay out the difference between voice and style. Also how to nurture your voice and ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Your Artist's Brain

    Use the right side of your brain to draw and paint what you see - not what you t hink you see

    by Carl Purcell ...
    Overcome the obstacles to your artistic expressionImproving your artwork can be as simple as learning how to trust your eyes. Your Artist's Brain shows you how to portray even the most complex subjects by focusing on what you really see - not what you think you see.Expert art instructor Carl Purcell shows you how to overcome dependency on the "intellectual brain" and listen carefully to the more ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • You Can Draw Cute Animals

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing and Coloring Adorable Creatures

    Learn to draw any animal and turn it into a sweet, delightful creature that always inspires a smile.You Can Draw Cute Animals features easy techniques for turning up the charm on 30 animals that run, fly, swim, slither, and waddle. Discover how to create sparkling eyes, blushing cheeks, joyful smiles, and button noses, transforming even the most ferocious beasts into delightful, appealing ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Yellow plus art: Korean paintings today

    by Dorothy Hong ...
    Dorothy Hong, a featured artist on online stores, compiled a small selection of modern artist works of Korean heritage either residents of Korea or in the USA to encapsulate with visual feast what has uniquely emerged as Korean art trained either in classic Chinese paintings or in Western European representational painting style and today heavily influenced by the new megacenter of fine art, New ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Wreaking Havoc

    How To Create Fantasy Warriors And Wicked Weapons

    Four top gaming artists share their secrets for creating fantasy battle scenes complete with warriors, a fearsome armory of weaponry and a cast of monstrous creatures that wreak havoc!Read this book and enter a realm where human warriors coexist with giants, monsters and many other mythical creatures both mundane and magical, all battling for survival.Four artists who have dared to venture this ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Worlds beyond My Window

    The Life and Work of Gertrude McCarty Smith

    Artist, columnist, and poet Gertrude McCarty Smith (1923–2007) of Collins, Mississippi, carried herself as a demure and proper southern lady, yet this was deceiving as she was a prolific, creative trailblazer who had collectors and dedicated readers from coast to coast, and even in Europe. She grew up during the Great Depression with only some vivid storytelling and pictures from the family Bible ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Wonder Walls

    How to Transform Your Space with Colorful Geometrics, Graphic Lettering, and Other Fabulous Paint Techniques

    Wallpaper may be desirable, but it can be expensive, difficult to install, and damaging to the wall upon removal. Street art and graffiti might seem unattainable, but everyone has an interior wall they can paint. Wall painting offers a way to achieve these modern design effects in the home, and it can be accessible to everyone — even those who don’t consider themselves artists. This bright and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Winslow Homer: 83 Paintings and Watercolors

    by Narim Bender ...
    Winslow Homer was American painter, illustrator and etcher, one of the two most admired American late 19th-century artists and is considered to be the greatest pictorial poet of outdoor life in the United States and its greatest watercolorist. Nominally a landscape painter, in a sense carrying on Hudson River school attitudes, Homer was an artist of power and individuality whose images are ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • William Blake

    Poet, draughtsman, engraver and painter, William Blake’s work is made up of several elements – Gothic art, Germanic reverie, the Bible, Milton and Shakespeare – to which were added Dante and a certain taste for linear designs, resembling geometric diagrams, and relates him to the great classical movement inspired by Winckelmann and propagated by David. This is the sole point of contact discernible ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wildlife Scenes in Acrylic

    by Jerry Yarnell ...
    Series series Paint This with Jerry Yarnell
    Acrylic secrets to bring your nature paintings to life!Bring landscapes to life with popular workshop instructor, best-selling author and television personality Jerry Yarnell! Jerry has made painting a pleasure--and a success--for thousands of artists, both beginner and experienced alike. In this book, he delivers eight new, fun-to-create wildlife scenes in his signature teaching style. Following ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • Wildlife Landscapes You Can Paint

    10 Acrylic Projects Using Just 5 Colors

    Capture the beauty and serenity of animals in natureIf you love nature and life's simpler things, you'll love painting with Wilson Bickford. In this book, with a teaching style as easy and inviting as his paintings, Wilson guides you step by step through ten charming wildlife scenes on canvas.• Projects feature a variety of beloved animals including deer, black bears, blue herons, loons, ducks, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Why do My Skin Tones Look Lifeless? Plus 25 Solutions to Other Portrait Painting Peeves: Tips and Techniques on Oil Painting Portraits, Mixing Skin Colours, Eyes, Hair and More

    A troubleshooting guide for portraiture.Portraiture is often seen as the last frontier of representational art as every detail has huge consequences upon whether a portrait looks like the person depicted. The beginner need not venture far before encountering a possible minefield of problems. Common issues might be why a portrait painting looks childish, eyes look like marbles, hair looks like a ... Read more

    $4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why do My Ellipses look like Doughnuts? Plus 25 Solutions to Other Still Life Painting Peeves: Colour Theory, Tips and Techniques on Oil Painting Floral Art, Fruit, Crockery and More

    Producing still life art is a popular pastime, for not only is the artist in control of the environment but also the subject matter. But a creative block may occur when it comes to rendering convincing orange peel, getting smooth effects for highlights, working under shifting lighting conditions or simply making a still life painting appear three-dimensional. How can such hurdles be overcome ... Read more

    $4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why do My Clouds Look like Cotton Wool? Plus 25 Solutions to Other Landscape Painting Peeves: Tips and Techniques on Oil Painting Landscapes for Beginners

    Learning to paint in oils is an enjoyable and creative process, but from time to time the fledgling artist may hit a creative brick wall, often with a particular issue. This might be with the plague of muddy colours, garish flower heads, trees that resemble lollypops, skies that look bland, darkening the colour of snow or shadows that look like black splodges. Such matters, if persistent may cause ... Read more

    $4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whistler

    Whistler suddenly shot to fame like a meteor at a crucial moment in the history of art, a field in which he was a pioneer. Like the impressionists, with whom he sided, he wanted to impose his own ideas. Whistler’s work can be divided into four periods. The first may be called a period of research in which he was influenced by the Realism of Gustave Courbet and by Japanese art. Whistler then ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where Is Ana Mendieta?

    Identity, Performativity, and Exile

    by Jane Blocker ...
    Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s’ artworld. In Where Is Ana Mendieta? art historian Jane Blocker provides an in-depth critical analysis of Mendieta’s diverse body of work. Although her untimely death in 1985 remains shrouded in controversy, her life and artistic legacy provide a unique ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • When Color Is The Subject

    by Alexia Scott ...
    Come and paint along with me in my newest book about pastel painting. Copy and learn from the many images taken while creating the painting of the Aspen trees on the cover. “Learning is something we should do throughout our lives, and learning about painting is something to be shared. There are different ways to make a pie and there are just as many ways to paint with pastels. What you already ... Read more

    $3.21 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Painting Is

    by James Elkins ...
    In this classic text, James Elkins communicates the experience of painting beyond the traditional vocabulary of art history. Alchemy provides a strange language to explore what it is a painter really does in the studio—the smells, the mess, the struggle to control the uncontrollable, the special knowledge only painters hold of how colors will mix, and how they will look. Written from the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • What is Painting?: New Edition (Revised Edition)

    by Julian Bell ...
    Julian Bell’s incisive, fully updated study of modern art and the nature of painting, which daringly tries to explain it“Yes, but is it art?” This lucid book by Julian Bell, himself a painter, confronts the uncertainty many people feel about art today and challenges generally accepted ideas.Now in a completely revised second edition, What is Painting? is a fresh, focused look at painting. Bell ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • What Drawing and Painting Really Mean

    The Phenomenology of Image and Gesture

    by Paul Crowther ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them to exist in. But this is not the end of the story. Drawings and paintings are made, and in their making embody unique meanings that transform our perception of space-time and sense of finitude. These meanings have not been addressed by art history or visual studies hitherto, and have only been considered ... Read more

    $56.99 USD