Crawshaw Paints Oils


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With this easy-to-follow guide based on his successful TV series, well-known painter Alwyn Crawshaw removes the mystery from oil painting and encourages you to have a go. He gives advice on: choosing your materials; colour mixing; composition; brush strokes; working from photographs; & painting outdoors--Cover.




Alwyn Crawshaw's Oil Painting Course


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In this practical guide well-known TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw helps the beginner to master the traditional art of painting in oils. All the essentials are covered in a comprehensive course of 25 lessons.




Alwyn Crawshaw's Ultimate Painting Course


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In Alwyn Crawshaw’s Ultimate Painting Course, the artist encapsulates 50 years’ of painting and teaching in one volume. He begins with the basics: brushes, paints, and surfaces; choosing a medium; and the fundamentals of simple perspective, color-mixing, composition, and tonal values. He then starts you off with simple three-color exercises, which are followed by a number of helpful half-hour exercises. He also shows you how to work from photos and sketches and includes a section on painting outdoors. Finally, there are more than 20 step-by-step demonstrations - in watercolor, acrylics, and oils - that feature landscapes, seascapes, and human figures. An outstanding guide for aspiring artists.




You Can Paint Watercolour


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Starts with real basics and assumes no knowledge or experience of painting whatsoever.




Learn to Paint


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Acrylics (Learn to Paint)


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Learn to Paint Acrylics is just one of the top-selling titles in the excellent Collins Learn to Paint series. The book contains thorough yet accessible instruction and stunning artwork by popular TV artist, Alwyn Crawshaw.




The Artist at Work


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Watercolour Painting Course


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This very successful book, by top TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw, has sold over 60,000 copies in hardback and is now being reissued in paperback. It covers everything that the beginner needs to know about watercolour painting in 32 comprehensive lessons. Readers are encouraged to work through each lesson in turn so that gradually they will improve their technique and gain in confidence. Alwyn Crawshaw explains each process clearly and offers advice and encouragement at every stage. The book includes: * A series of practical lessons covering all the basic watercolour methods and techniques * Simple exercises and several step-by-step painting demonstrations, with clear and detailed instructions * Revealing examples of 'what went wrong', showing how to avoid common painting problems * A wide variety of subjects -- trees, water, skies, flowers, buildings, people, boats and animals




The Half-hour Painter


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This best-selling book by popular TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw is now reissued by popular demand in a new paperback edition at a very competitive price.




A Brush with Art


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A beginner's guide to watercolor painting offers twelve self-contained lessons demonstrating different techniques, and includes advice on mixing colors, sketching, composing a picture, portraying light and shade, tonal values, and perspectives