Hilary Page's Guide to Watercolor Paints


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The best resource for identifying the particular watercolors you will need for your work. Included in this book are the products of the leading manufacturers of watercolors around the world, including: Blockx, Daniel Smith, Da Vinci, Fragonard, Grumbacher, Holbein, M. Graham & Co., Maimeri, Old Holland Rembrandt, Rowney, Sakura, Schmincke, Sennelier, Shiva, Van Gogh, Winsor & Newton. Each paint has been personally tested and evaluated by the author, and samples of the paints throughout the book illustrate the paints' essential characteristics.




Watercolor Right from the Start


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Before picking up a paintbrush, an aspiring watercolour artist must first learn how to see. Leading artist and art instructor Hilary Page shows readers how to develop that ability and how to get the art of watercolour painting right from the start. Clear, step by step lessons and how to photos help readers explore ways of seeing, drawing handling watercolour and composing a painting with the help of specific geometric forms. Lessons start with relatively simple concepts and subjects, and then progress towards the more complex techniques. This indispensable manual is ideal for beginning artists as well as a concise study programme for the experienced painter.




Color Right from the Start


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In a series of progressive step-by-step lessons, the author of this volumehows the reader how to make the colours of nature come alive on canvas.;Eachhapter focuses on a dominant colour grouping, which is then explored throughhe creation of a painting. Each hands-on lesson includes a listing of thexact tube colours used, with tips for mixing and applying them to create theolour effects detailed in the painting.;Readers will also discover howolours in nature correspond with pigment colours, as well as how to mix, usend test primaries, secondaries and neutrals.




Artistry Unleashed


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Imagine if you could make effective progress with no clear plan or destination in view, achieve excellence without sacrificing creativity, and invest passion even as you apply reason and intelligence. Artistry Unleashed is about working and living at the edge of what you know and beyond. Surprise, uncertainty, ambiguity, intensity, and change are all disruptive forces that we often avoid or fear. Yet they are the essential origin of both creativity and great performance. Learn how artistry, when allowed to escape studio walls, can motivate painters, CEOs, athletes, scientists, chefs, and you to achieve these powerful capabilities. Artistry Unleashed provides original and practical tools to transform what we think about artistry's role in professions, in organizations, in education, and, most importantly, in everyday life.




Cultivating Your Creative Life


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Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities, and Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty, and Success as an Artist is a multi-faceted book where creativity and wonder intermingle to show how to live a creative and balanced life while moving toward your goals. You’ll find ideas for keeping your creative well full, an illustrated guide to healing herbs and plants, basic yoga poses and breathing exercises, and tips for moving your artistic career forward. Alena Hennessy's illustration style combines nature, whimsey, delicacy, and a modern sensibility; vibrant pen and ink illustrations accompany relevant quotes ofinspiration, tips, and creative journal exercises. Cultivating Your Creative Life is not only an interactive creativity guide; it is a work of art, in itself—a beautiful, collectible volume—to save and to savor, or to give as a gift to the special creative person in your life.




Watercolour


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The Winsor & Newton Guide to Colour Mixing Watercolour takes the uncertainty out of colour mixing for artists. Organised around the primary colours, with an additional section on neutrals and flesh tints, the book presents a gallery of precise colour mixes to enable an artist to recreate what is on the page in their palette and on their work of art.Clear, concise outline of the principles of colour mixing using watercolours At-a-glance guide to more than 5,000 hues and shades Complete visual reference to mixing watercolour Inspirational galleries of successful watercolour works using colour mixingBook Contents: Chapter 1 - Tools and Materials, Chapter 2 - Mixing Watercolours, Chapter 3 - Reds and Oranges, Chapter 4 - Yellows and Greens, Chapter 5 - Blues and Purples, Chapter 5 - Neutrals and Flesh Tones,




Painting Watercolor Botanicals


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Learn to create your own beautiful watercolor botanical art with more than 30 projects, as well as information on materials and basic techniques. The graceful, contemporary style of these flowers and foliage is attractive and accessible to all no matter your skill level. Also published in the UK as NEW BOTANICAL PAINTING.




The Complete Watercolorist's Essential Notebook


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This special 10th-anniversary collection combines two of the best-loved North Light watercolor guides available: The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook and The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook: Landscapes. Clarifying and simplifying the various aspects of painting with watercolor, Gordon MacKenzie's The Complete Watercolorist's Essential Notebook will encourage and challenge you with new possibilities. Rather than a list of rules, this is a collection of principles, concepts and general information designed to expand your creative process. Mackenzie shares with you tips, techniques, ideas and lessons for a sure path to creative fulfillment and better watercolor paintings.




Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds


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First published in the United Kingdom by Helm/Bloomsbury in 2019.




Painter's Guide to Color


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The Premier Guide for Painters to Understanding Color! Painter's Guide to Color was written foremost with the painter in mind. However, weavers, textile designers, interior decorators, and commercial artists have all benefited from award-winning artist Stephen Quiller's innovative and accessible color theory techniques. Painter's Guide to Color will help you to train your eye to see and use color in exciting ways.