A title in the Collins You Can Paint series of painting books for absolute beginners. Written by the professional artist-teacher, Sharon Finmark, this book teaches the real basics of painting people in watercolour. Full of easy-to-follow exercises and demonstrations, the book should give even the most hesitant of beginners the enthusiasm and confidence to start painting people. All the instruction is broken down into easy step-by-step exercises to help you to practise and build up your knowledge and expertise of painting gradually. Sharon Finmark takes the reader by the hand and shows, with very simple exercises, exactly how to paint all the separate features of a picture one by one.
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New York-based British painter Cecily Brown (born 1969) makes sumptuous oil paintings combining abstract and figurative elements, art-historical references and erotic, fragmented bodies in compositions so densely layered that one of Brown's ...
Get stuck right in from the start. And along the way, while you're having a good time with the 50 or so ideas in this book, you can expect something amazing top happen: you'll learn to paint!
"From the basic preparation of the figure to the final presentation with finishing touches, this book covers the needed techniques" - IPMS The art of painting miniatures, both military and other types requires certain knowledge, ...
Covering the full range of painting mediums, this appealing instructional examines work by leading contemporary artists to show students a variety of approaches to the fascinating art of figure and portrait painting.
Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen guide us into the secrets of the flesh, coupling extended discussions with crisp, enlarged details of 12 iconic works from the canon of art history.