Polly Raynes

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

Capture the beauty and complexity of the botanical world in a wide range of media. With the help of detailed step-by-step exercises, Polly Raynes explains all the drawing and painting techniques you will need to create stunning images from simple line studies to fully-realized paintings. Part One explains the pros and cons of each medium in turn, looks at tools and equipment, paper and supports, and mixing media. Part Two puts into practice the techniques developed in Part One. Follow the step-by-step projects to draw and paint a wide range of scenes, from formal and wild gardens, interior and exterior plant and flower arrangements to plants and flowers in architectural settings. Finally, present your finished work to its best advantage by following the hints and tips on mounting and framing. -- From publisher's description.

Drawing and Painting Plants and Flowers

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Priscilla Hauser

Priscilla Hauser, the “First Lady of Decorative Painting,” offers a bouquet of flower designs sure to please anyone who enjoys putting brush to paper. Daffodils, poppies, cabbage roses, wisteria: they all bloom beautifully on canvas, with the help of worksheets that show each portion of the flower as it’s painted. Instructions cover using a round or liner brush; making every single brush stroke, from commas to curlicues; choosing a palette; floating (flowing color on a surface); and easy blending. Pick one of the 12 flower projects, including tulips, lilies, geraniums, daisies, and sunflowers. Attractive mottled backgrounds enhance the focus on each flower portrait, and look wonderful on the finished and framed picture. With more than 25 books to her credit, Priscilla Hauser has become the expert teacher on decorative painting techniques. She’s the founder of the National Society of Tole and Decorative Painting, spokeswoman for FolkArt� paints, and a world-renowned instructor.

Priscilla Hauser's Flower Portraits

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Barron's Educational Series, Inc, College Division Staff

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Barron's Art Handbooks

Barron's Art Handbooks are pocket-sized reference guides for art teachers and students. Heavily illustrated in color, the titles are divided into color-coded sub-series as follows: Purple, instruction in art media; Green, techniques and theory; Yellow, art history and movements; Red, art genres. This brand-new title, Inks and Washes, falls into the Purple category, explaining their application, both when used alone and in mixed-media art-works, and showing examples of artworks that have been created using these techniques.

Inks and Washes

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Four professional cartoonists provide easy-to-follow instructions showing how to pick out the comic details that make a cartoon character come alive and add expression and movement to the simplest sketch.

Beginner's Guide to Drawing Cartoons

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Ruth Little

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

30 easy exercises for beginners

Artists aren't born. They're made! Think you can't draw? Think again! Decode the mysteries of realistic drawing with the 30 simple and fun exercises inside Draw Now. Developed during 20+ years of successful teaching, Ruth Little's exercises begin with a pencil and a piece of paper and take you through the drawing process step by step. Follow these easy exercises to create believable pictures while learning the good habits that will lead to a lifetime of beautiful drawing. You don't need expensive materials or drawing experience - your desire to draw is enough! 30 easy exercises including: Warm-Ups Create Blind Contour Drawings Draw in Perspective Discover Negative Space Use Value to Create Texture Create Gesture Drawings and more! Transform yourself into an artist with these simple exercises and start drawing today. With Draw Now, all you need is a pencil.

Draw Now

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Graphite and Charcoal Pencil Techniques

Learn to Draw Now!

Step-by-step Various Projects

The Beginner's Guide To Making Pottery

How to capture likeness and personailty

Painting Portraits

Paul Landry

On Drawing and Painting

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Parramon's Editorial Team Staff

Budding young artists learn how to draw animals in ways that suggest movement and life and find tips on varying texture to give the visual impression of everything from a bear's fur or a zebra's stripes to a fish's scales and a bird's feathers. Different approaches to animal art are examined, from highly detailed realism to highly stylized poster art. Full-color illustrations.

We Imagine We Draw Animals

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Lee J. Ames

Step-by-Step Way to Draw... LIBRARY EDITION

For use in schools and libraries only. Step-by-step instructions show young artists how to draw dogs; from the hound, working, toy, sporting, and nonsporting breeds, including spaniels, greyhounds, collies, and poodles.

Draw 50 Dogs

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how to do it

The Art Of Perspective Drawing

HOW-TO-DO-IT

The Art of Marine Painting

The Art of Drawing Heads and Hands

Renzo Barto

Instructions for drawing a variety of human figures and animals in cartoon style, accompanied by black and white line drawings.

How to Draw Cartoon Characters

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Flona Watt

Over 200 ideas for things to di with acrylic paints; chalk pastels, inks; poster paints; tissue paper; oil pastels; wax crayons; watercolors.

The Usborne Book of ART IDEAS

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How To Draw Cars Like A Pro

Kathryn Temple

The Only Drawing Book You'll Ever Need to Be the Artist You've Always Wanted to Be

Great instructions and suggestions for drawing people, places, and things.

Drawing Art for Kids

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Carole Katchen

20 outstanding artists show you how to master the colorful versatility of pastel

Creative Painting with Pastel

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Everything you need to know to paint like a professional, featuring 30 step-by-step projects

Essentials Painting Companion

Susan Schwake

Rainer Schwake

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Print-Making, Paper, and Mixed Media

Presents art lessons for art projects of varying styles including drawing, printmaking, and mixed media.

Art Lab for Kids

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Kensuke Okabayashi

Figure Drawing For Dummies appeals to both new art students and veteran artists who find it difficult to proportionally draw the human form. The illustrations and examples in Figure Drawing For Dummies are designed to help readers capture this elusive figure.

Figure Drawing for Dummies

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Amanda O'Neill

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Everybody would like to be able to pick up a pencil and draw a really life-like picture, but sometimes it's hard to know where to begin. The subject you want to draw can look very complicated and you simply don't know how to start. Don't despair! This book shows you how, by breaking down your subject into a series of simple shapes, you can create a drawing step-by-step until you have something you can be really proud of. Everyone can draw a circle and some straight lines, and artist Terry Longhurst shows how you can use these basic skills to build up a finished image ready to be colored. By studying your subject before you start, you will soon see that it can be broken down into very simple shapes which fit together bit-by-bit. Suddenly, drawing will become easier as you understand how to build up your work gradually using these shapes so that, piece-by-piece, a fantastic picture emerges. I Can Draw... is a fascinating book, fun to read and packed with information on the subjects you will love to draw, from dinosaurs to cars and trucks, from exotic animals to flying machines. It's all here - all you need is a pencil and some paper...

I Can Draw

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Brenda Hoddinott

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

pick up the basics and start expressing yourself!

On a simple piece of paper, a fierce bird of prey can swoop down upon its terrified victim, an adoring father can share laughter with the infant daughter cradled in his arms, raindrops can glisten on the hood of a vintage sports car, a lightening bolt can cut across the night, offering a glimpse of trees ominously silhouetted against the blackness. Drawing can enrich your life in extraordinary and unexpected ways. Drawing your everyday experiences can change how you and others see the world, while drawing from imagination can give rise to fantastic new worlds. And, despite what you may believe, it's something just about anyone can learn to do.

Drawing For Dummies offers you a fun, easy way to learn drawing basics. Its author, professional illustrator and long-time art educator Brenda Hoddinott, has a simple philosophy-that only you can teach you to draw. With that in mind, she arms you with the tools you need to explore the basics and then coaches you through 30 hands-on drawing projects. You'll quickly

 * Conquer the basics of line and shading
 * Develop an eye for basic shapes and contours
 * Discover how to create the illusion of three dimensions
 * Render still-life subjects and landscapes
 * Bring animals and people to vivid life on the page

Brenda helps you tune into your right brain and see the world as an artist does. You'll discover how to break things down into basic lines and shapes and then reassemble them on the page. Other topics covered include:

 * Understanding and exercising the basic skills of drawing lines and shapes, adding life and depth with shading, and rendering textures
 * Mastering the fundamentals of composition and planning drawings
 * Creating lifelike doodles and cartoon characters
 * Drawing the natural environment including both plants and animals
 * Keeping a sketchbook and drawing from memory
 * Drawing people, starting with babies and exploring the human face from childhood to old age

It's never too late to unleash the artist within. Let Drawing For Dummies put you on the road of discovery and self-expression through drawing.

Drawing for Dummies

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