Painting Landscapes invites you to connect with nature through the mindful practice of watercolour. With gentle guidance from Inga Buividavice, popular artist and author of Painting Calm, you’ll learn to observe, paint and appreciate the beauty of the natural world.
From Steve Forster, award-winning portrait artist and co-director of the Long Island Academy of Fine Art, Painting Luminous Portraits for Artists presents essential lessons on how to paint a radiant likeness in oils.
This volume traces the evolution of the pictorial representation – and, more often than not, the visual effacement – of the instant of death in Europe between the Renaissance and the middle of the seventeenth century.
This comprehensive watercolour guide teaches you essential techniques like blending, colour theory, pigment control, and more, then invites you to turn inspiration from nature into your own whimsical forest-themed paintings. With step-by-step tutorials for painting flowers, plants, insects, and forest scenes.
In the first centuries BCE and CE, Roman wall painters frequently placed representations of works of art, especially panel paintings, within their own mural compositions. This richly illustrated book explores the social, ethical and aesthetic dimensions of this practice and will appeal to both classicists and art historians.
The treatment of light and shadow is one of the building blocks of drawing, and artists have found innovative and dazzling ways to create spectacular effects. This publication examines the central relationship between paper and light in the world of drawings in western European art from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.