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Intuitive Painting Workshop

Author : Alena Hennessy

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 16,76 MB

Release : 2015-12-03

Category : Art

ISBN : 1440342407

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Book Description

A Year of Painting Intuitively! Stay inspired to create art throughout every season! In Intuitive Painting Workshop, you'll find a timely expressive exercise for each month, along with seasonal check-ins. In discovering how to paint intuitively, you will learn to surrender to your true visual voice as your personal process of making marks emerges. Using acrylic paint, ink, collage papers, stencils, watercolor, gel pens, paint markers and more, you'll be gently guided by twelve exercises, taking cues from the process, but carrying each in your own direction. • Explore monthly exercises, each offering you a new area of growth from setting intentions, to painting wildly, to getting know your animal totems and much more. • Receive suggestions for painting with a "beginner's mind" and a glossary of art terms will make following the step-by-step demonstrations clear and easy to understand. • Get further ideas from a monthly gallery of contributing artists who were students of this process, just like you! • Have a chance to assimilate your creative focus every few months with seasonal Check-In journaling prompts and ideas for reflection. Stay inspired month-by-month and season-to-season with Intuitive Painting Workshop!



Outdoor Paint Techniques and Faux Finishes, Revised Edition

Author : Marina Niven

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 27,72 MB

Release : 2018

Category : House & Home

ISBN : 9781580118149

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Book Description

"Gives information about painting on various outdoor surfaces, such as wood, cement, and plaster. Includes guidance for choosing color, tools, and equipment, and provides detailed step-by-step procedures for each type of outdoor surface discussed"--





North Light Book of Creative Paint Finishing Techniques

Author : Ray Bradshaw

Publisher : Northlight

Page : 148 pages

File Size : 18,6 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9780891348238

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Book Description

More than 45 techniques for decorating walls, cabinets and more. These hands-on instructions give even beginners fantastic results.



Creative Painting and Beyond

Author : Alix Adams

Publisher : Walter Foster

Page : 147 pages

File Size : 18,93 MB

Release : 2015-09

Category : Art

ISBN : 1633220168

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Book Description

Full of inspiration, easy instruction, gorgeous artwork, and myriad ideas for artists to explore, Creative Painting and Beyond is sure to bring out the artist in everyone. Learn how to create beautiful and whimsical artwork with Creative Painting and Beyond, a vibrant, interactive book packed with creative prompts, tips, exercises, and engaging step-by-step projects. From canvas artwork and illustrated stationery to hand-stamped tea towels and intricate marbled paper, crafters will enjoy a variety of simple, fun, and colorful projects that make creative painting approachable for artists of any skill level. Leading the charge are several talented artists, who encourage artistic development through a series of painting prompts and exercises designed to get the creative juices flowing and inspire each reader's journey into painting with multiple mediums, including gold leaf and liquid gilding, acrylic, watercolor, and gouache. Artists will learn how to work with these fun mediums to create stationery, gifts, art projects, home decor, and more by following along with the simple step-by-step instructions, accompanied by beautiful full-color photographs of the process and finished. Blank pages and interactive prompts invite readers to brainstorm, sketch, and collect inspiration for their own projects. Full of inspiration, easy instruction, gorgeous artwork, and myriad ideas for artists to explore, Creative Painting and Beyond is sure to bring out the artist in everyone.



Brave Intuitive Painting-Let Go, Be Bold, Unfold!

Author : Flora Bowley

Publisher :

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 38,2 MB

Release : 2012-05

Category : Art

ISBN : 1592537685

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Book Description

Adopt a spontaneous, bold, and fearless approach to painting as a process of discovery—one that results in lush and colorful finished works that will beg to be displayed. This inspiring and encouraging book for both novice and experienced painters teaches how to create colorful, exciting, expressive paintings through a variety of techniques, combining basic, practical painting principles with innovative personal self-expression. Flora S. Bowley's fun and forgiving approach to painting is based on the notion that “You don't begin with a preconceived painting in mind; you allow the painting to unfold.” Illustrating how to work in layers, Flora gives you the freedom to cover up, re-start, wipe away, and change courses many times along the way. Unexpected and unique compositions, color combinations, and subject matter appear as you allow your paintings to emerge in an organic, unplanned way while working from a place of curiosity and letting go of fear. —Learn techniques for working with vibrant color and avoiding mud. —Make rich and varied marks with a variety of unexpected tools. —Break compositional rules. —Embrace nonattachment as a way to keep exploring. —Keep momentum by moving your body and staying positive. —Work with what's working to let go of struggle. —Connect more deeply to the world around you to stay inspired. —Embrace layers to create rich complex paintings. —Find rhythm by spiraling between chaos and order.



Annie Sloan's Complete Book of Decorative Paint Finishes

Author : Annie Sloan

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 27,9 MB

Release : 2004-02-28

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9781843400523

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Book Description

'Annie Sloan's Complete Book of Decorative Paint Finishes' explores all the decorative techniques you will ever need to decorate your home creatively, innovatively, and with professional results. Techniques from ragging and sponging to woodgraining and marbling, stencilling with brushes, rollers or spray paints, traditional and modern decoupage, staining wood, and distressing metal leaf are explained with step-by-step instructions and illustrated on walls, furniture, and accessories. Examples of how the effects look using different colours are also included, so that you can choose the perfect combinations for your project.



Creative and Abstract Painting Techniques

Author : Brian Ryder

Publisher : David & Charles Publishers

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 25,5 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780715338179

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Book Description

A guide to drawing and painting abstract art. It explains the techniques needed for creative expressionism through to fully abstract paintings. It reveals unusual colour and texture techniques to create with watercolours, acrylics and oil paints. It presents ten projects that highlight the progression from initial inspiration to a finished work. This is an innovative, practical guide to drawing and painting dynamic abstract art. It explains the techniques needed for creative expressionism through to fully abstract paintings. It explores subjects using colour, texture and composition, as well as the moods and emotions they invoke. It reveals unusual colour and texture techniques to create with watercolours, acrylics and oil paints. It presents ten step-by-step projects that highlight the progression from initial inspiration to a finished work.



Decorative Painting Techniques for Walls, Floors, Ceilings & Furniture

Author : Elise Kinkead

Publisher : Creative Publishing International

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 42,19 MB

Release : 2009-03

Category : House & Home

ISBN : 1589234537

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Book Description

"Features concise, illustrated instructions for 150 of the most popular interior decorative painting techniques"--Provided by publisher.



Simplifying Design & Color for Artists

Author : Linda Kemp

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 449 pages

File Size : 42,25 MB

Release : 2013-11-08

Category : Art

ISBN : 1440325340

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Book Description

When you become a better designer and colorist, you become a better painter. Painting doesn't have to be complicated to be good. In fact, it shouldn't be. Artist and best-selling author Linda Kemp (Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines) bypasses all the complexities of design and color to focus on a fresh, simplified strategy for success that features negative painting--a method that uses the space around your subject to help define it. Improve your painting step by step with projects and exercises that will help your work stand out from the crowd. With Simplifying Design & Color for Artists, you'll learn: • Strategies for creating simple yet effective compositions, focusing on the relationship between shape, space, and color. • Useful tips on color--how to simplify it, mix your own, and work with value, hue and intensity. • Techniques for designing with shape: size and edge, layering, and building dimension and movement. • 18 step-by-step projects in watercolor and acrylic. The approach may be simple, but your art will be spectacular!