Art Technique category: 4706 books
Great Book of Tattoo Designs, Revised Edition
More than 500 Body Art Designs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
From delicate roses to majestic animals, from steampunk to Celtic, from fairies to Mayan warriors, this comprehensive collection of original artwork presents all of today's most popular tattoo subjects. Nationally recognized graphic designer Lora S. Irish looks at the human body with an artist's eye,...
by Rodin Auguste,Dorothy Dudley,Tina A. Kover
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2009
Venus is the renowned sculptor, Auguste Rodin's brief, uniquely passionate ode to one of his medium's great masterpieces, the Venus de Milo, now in the Louvre Museum in Paris. As poet Ranier Maria Rilke spoke of Rodin's vision: "The galleries of the Louvre revealed to the young artist radiant visions...
by Arron Adams
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This study Art Book contains selected and annotated color plates of paintings from François Boucher.
François Boucher was French Rococo painter, engraver, and designer, who best represent the frivolity and elegant showiness of French court at the 18th century. Boucher the painter was no less prolific...
This Is Not a Photo Opportunity
The Street Art of Banksy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This Is Not a Photo Opportunity is a street-level, full-color showcase of some of Banksy’s most innovative pieces ever. Banksy, Britain’s now-legendary “guerilla” street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Once viewed as vandalism,...
DIABLERIES
A Trip To The Underworld
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Perhaps the most fascinating, provocative and intricately modelled of all images created during the 19th century craze for stereoscopic photography remain those created in Paris from around 1860 onwards, and now known as Diableries (or “devilriesâ€). 19th century France was renowned for its...
Midway
Letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Stephen Bann 1964-69
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was one of Scotland's leading twentieth-century public intellectuals, and famously one of its most brilliant and combative correspondents. His letters raise issues of particular and widespread interest both within Scotland and further afield. His correspondence with...
by Francois Truffaut
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Iconic, groundbreaking interviews of Alfred Hitchcock by film critic François Truffaut—providing insight into the cinematic method, the history of film, and one of the greatest directors of all time.
In Hitchcock, film critic François Truffaut presents fifty hours of interviews with Alfred...
Pleasing Everyone
Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, author Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the incontrovertibly mass medium of Golden-Age Hollywood cinema....
by C. A. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
Have you ever thought about starting a webcomic? If the answer to that question is "yes", then 'Your First Webcomic' might come in handy. It is a re-edited collection of the top seven articles on my blog about webcomic writing and design.Although this guide is text-only, it will give...
Learn to Paint People Quickly
A practical, step-by-step guide to learning to paint people in watercolour and oils
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
A practical guide to learn painting individual people and crowds, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations. Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan has distilled her art teaching into the things that matter most and can be digested in a short period of time. Learning to paint is one...
Splash 9
Watercolor Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
The Potential of Watercolor Revealed
Luminous, dynamic and expressive, watercolor is an intriguing medium for artist and viewer alike. Splash 9: Watercolor Secrets invites you to push your own creative potential to new heights as you explore the work of more than 100 of today's best watercolor...
Lessons in Classical Painting
Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
A companion volume to Lessons in Classical Drawing and an atelier in book form, Lessons in Classical Painting breaks down the foundational skills and techniques of painting in a format that is accessible and manageable for all readers.
With the same direct, easy-to-follow approach of Juliette...
Splash 14
Light & Color
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
"Sometimes the beauty of light can last only an instant...be ready." - Laurie Goldstein-Warren, P119
It starts with a sparkle of light, the expressive way a shadow maps out a face, the almost other-worldly luminosity of roses on an overcast day. These are the moments, often brief...
by Theodore Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
There is nothing more rewarding than painting with acrylics at home or in a studio. You can become fully absorbed in a whole new world that is never ending. One good painting leads to another when learn the ropes. It is a relaxing pastime that creates permanent artworks that can grace your home or...