Category: Techniques

150 Masterpieces of Drawing (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

Price: $2.34

Publisher: Dover Publications : 1963-06-01

Seller ID: mon0000703106

ISBN-13: 9780486210322

Condition: VeryGood

Light edge wear.
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Adirondack Prints and Printmakers: The Call of the Wild (Adirondack Museum Books)

Price: $3.55

Publisher: Syracuse University Press : 1998-05-01

Seller ID: mon0000660115

ISBN-13: 9780815605195

Condition: Good

This volume presents essays which explore the influence of the Adirondack region on artists and printmakers. Including essays originally presented at the 1995 North American Print Conference, the text embodies the artistic spectrum from the documentary to the aesthetic.
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Animation Now! (Italian/Spanish/Portugese) (Italian, Portuguese and Spanish Edition)

Price: $46.46

Publisher: Taschen : 2004-11-26

Seller ID: mon0000324603

ISBN-13: 9783822832202

Condition: Acceptable

Ex-library book with usual markings. Otherwise book is bright and attractive.
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Art School: A Complete Painters Course

Price: $1.49

Publisher: Hamlyn : 2000-06-30

Seller ID: mon0000673683

ISBN-13: 9780600601463

Condition: VeryGood

Go to art school...in your own home With over 400 information-packed pages of basic techniques for watercolor, oils, and acrylics, plus carefully graded projects and over 1,000 specially commissioned pictures, this colorful, oversized "painters course" will turn you into a complete, versatile artist Progress from single color projects to wet-on-wet washes, achieve brilliance and richness of color, paint ambitious figures and landscapes, choose suitable subjects for each medium, and arrange attention-grabbing compositions. It's the perfect place to begin learning
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Creative Discoveries in Watermedia

Price: $1.87

Publisher: North Light Books : 1998T

Seller ID: mon0000677732

ISBN-13: 9780891348306

Condition: Acceptable

A practical step-by-step instruction guide to techniques which can be used to create abstract works of art.
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In Pursuit Of Heavenly Harmony: Paintings And Calligraphy By Bada Shanren From The Estate Of Wang Fangyu And Sum Wai

Price: $25.12

Publisher: Weatherhill : 4/1/2003 12:00:01 AM

Seller ID: mon0000678059

ISBN-13: 9780834805255

Condition: Good

This compelling and lavishly illustrated presentation offers fresh insight into the mysterious life and works of Bada Shanren (1625-1705), the Chinese Ming dynasty master of the brush whose idiosyncratic visual vocabulary was full of personal symbolism and artistic gesture. The central catalogue of Bada's works details the significant features of each artwork, along with translations of all texts and calligraphy.
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Manga Mania Shoujo by Hart, Christopher ( Author ) ON Feb-28-2003, Paperback

Price: $9.02

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications : 2003-02-28

Seller ID: mon0000375030

ISBN-13: 9780823029730

Condition: VeryGood

Shoujo manga is one of the most popular styles of Japanese animation, featuring the most recognizable characters in manga-seen everywhere in comics, books, toys, television, film, and video. Since shoujo is based on stories that focus on peer pressure, romance, and friendship, it initially appealed to young females, but today more and more boys are attracted to this genre, which inevitably includes young male heroes. Best-selling author Christopher Hart once again reveals the secrets and techniques that go into building all the basics of the shoujo style-the big eyes, the miniscule noses, and ...
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Michelangelo Life Drawings (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

Price: $2.34

Publisher: Dover Publications : 1980-02-01

Seller ID: mon0000702206

ISBN-13: 9780486238760

Condition: Good

Throughout his long life, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) never ceased to practice drawing with pen, pencil, or chalk. In the 60 years of creative activity encompassed by this volume, the artist produced scores of sketches, drawings, and studies -- nudes, heads, figure studies, Madonnas, anatomical drawings, studies of children and animals, mythical representations, and religious works. This book reproduces 46 of his finest drawings, embodying most of his artistic themes and techniques, and executed in his characteristic media of pen and ink, and red and black chalk. The extraordinary stre...
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Pastel Painter's Pocket Palette: Practical Visual Advice on How to Create over 600 Pastel Colors from a Small Basic Range

Price: $1.49

Publisher: North Light Books : 1992T

Seller ID: mon0000683498

ISBN-13: 9780891344827

Condition: VeryGood

Pocket Palettes are visual dictionaries of color mixes. They save time, frustration and materials by showing artists exactly what colors to mix to get the color they want. These handy guides will help artists perfect and expand their use of color.
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Simplicissimus

Price: $25.69

Publisher: Dover Publications : 6/1/1975 12:00:01 AM

Seller ID: mon0000678461

ISBN-13: 9780486230993

Condition: VeryGood

Price clipped.
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The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery

Price: $1.49

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press : 1988-11-01

Seller ID: mon0000213830

ISBN-13: 9780803221338

Condition: Good

general wear
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The Calligrapher's Handbook

Price: $2.34

Publisher: Taplinger Pub Co : 1986-05-01

Seller ID: mon0000701753

ISBN-13: 9780800811983

Condition: VeryGood

This new second edition of a work that Publishers Weekly has called "one of the outstanding works on contemporary calligraphy" contains 18 authoritative articles by leading calligraphers.
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Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy And Art

By: Aberth, Susan L.,Carrington, Leonora

Price: $258.40

Publisher: Lund Humphries Pub Ltd : 2004-12-30

Seller ID: mon0000658086

ISBN-13: 9780853319085

Condition: VeryGood

This is the first book to survey the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (born 1917). nineteen-year-old debutante, she escaped the stultifying demands of her wealthy English family by running away to Paris with her lover Max Ernst. She was immediately championed by Andre Breton, who responded enthusiastically to her fantastical, dark and satirical writing style and her interest in fairy tales and the occult. Her stories were included in Surrealist publications, and her paintings in the Surrealists' exhibitions. ended up in the 1940s as part of the circle of Surrealist Europea...
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Outside the Lines: Paintings by Alexandra Nichita

By: Alexandra Nechita

Price: $13.44

Publisher: Longstreet Pr : 1996-05-01

Seller ID: mon0000634873

ISBN-13: 9781563523076

Condition: Good

Signed by artist. One tear to front of jacket. Otherwise, fine.
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Chaim Gross: Watercolors and Drawings

By: Alfred Werner

Price: $7.91

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc : 1980-04-01

Seller ID: mon0000658208

ISBN-13: 9780810909779

Condition: Good

Book is bent from improper storage. Foxing.
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The Nature of the Chinese Character

By: Aria, Barbara

Price: $1.49

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : 1991-08-01

Seller ID: mon0000664546

ISBN-13: 9780671728861

Condition: VeryGood

Landscapes of Rembrandt

By: Bakker, Boudewijn; Van Berge-Gerbaud, Maria; Schmitz, Erik

Price: $21.27

Publisher: Thoth Publications : 1999-01-01

Seller ID: mon0000604571

ISBN-13: 9789068682045

Condition: VeryGood

Rembrandt was a refined draftsman and an etcher, who has produced numerous evocative landscape and city views. Recent painstaking research at the Amsterdam Municipal Archives reveals that most of these scenes can be localized in and around Amsterdam, the city where the artist has spent most of his life. In this book, we accompany Rembrandt as he walks with his friends and pupils around Amsterdam, or out along the medieval dyke roads to the nearby villages. Together with country footpaths, farmsteads and windmills, Rembrandt left drawings of Amsterdam itself - streets, canals, towers, along wit...
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Silk Screen Techniques

By: Biegeleisen, J. I.,Cohn, M. A.

Price: $2.34

Publisher: Dover Publications : 2013-07-17

Seller ID: mon0000668874

ISBN-13: 9780486204338

Condition: VeryGood

Barely a century old, silk screen printing or serigraphy has been adopted as a commercial and an artistic process by thousands of enthusiastic professional and amateur crafters throughout the world. In this volume, one of silkscreen's foremost teachers and practitioners explains the entire process from the construction of the frame to the moment of printing your first impression. You are shown how to select or assemble every piece of equipment needed: the frame that holds the silk, the fabric and its attachment to the frame, the base on which the print will rest, stencil knives, guides, the sq...
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