Paint & Sip Designs


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If you have ever taken a Paint & Sip classes you know how much fun it is to be creative. What a great way to spend time with family and friends as you play with colorful paints and end up with a finished piece of art. Most people are unaware of the massive amounts of research showing that creativity makes people happier and less anxious while improving mental health after just one practice. While some people practice enough to make a career out of it many people just want to be creative while relieving stress with the excitement and fun of painting. This book offers many easy to follow designs for solo or group activity. With Paint & Sip Designs people can follow along and enjoy painting as they play with family and friends or on their own. With this process each person will have a wonderful design after just a few lines on the canvas. This system takes away all the math, line of horizon and grid lines and instead uses an easy to learn layout. The best part about this approach is that the system is progressive so you to get better every time you paint. Eventually you will be able to paint whatever interests you because you will have learned an approach to composition. Many people say that they have no creative ability and can only draw stick figures. However, after discovering the ease and fun of Paint & Sip they soon realize that, "hey I can draw, paint and of course sip, with easy." People just want to have fun and that is what this book is all about.




Paint & Sip Vol.2: Easy Painting with Acrylic


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Have you ever wanted to Paint and Sip or simply enjoy an afternoon of fun with family or friends. Maybe you just want to experience the relaxation and wonder of painting. Well this book can do that for you. This book takes all the hassle out of trying to figure out how to paint in perspective and jump starts you right into an easy to follow design. Learn to paint six bright and cheerful painting lessons that are packed with tones of tips. This book is not meant to be for the advanced artist but rather for the beginner that just wants to have fun and not make a huge deal out of figuring out the composition, vanishing points or math of the design. So if you're one of those who takes little interest in perspective, grid systems or lines of horizon, but still wants to learn how to paint, then these books are for you. These designs offer a system that is progressive in nature and super easy to follow, so you get better fast and end up with wonderful art. The best part is that you are learning the technique is that you end up learning a system so that eventually you can paint whatever you like. If there had been anything I would have wished for when I decided to be a painter, it would have been this information. It would have saved me tones of time and stopped 90% of the struggle.




Drink Laugh Paint


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You and your friends can have your own painting party with Drink Laugh Paint! Kit contains party tips, drink suggestions, and step-by-step instructions on how to have a painting party!




Holiday


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CD-ROMs in Print


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African Art Traceables


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Wondering what to create? It ́s time to create your own masterpiece! Easy Painting Traceables of African Ladies for you to trace and paint along. This book has 15 designs- Traceables of powerful African Ladies for both beginners and aspiring artists. With additional 15 gridded versions of each. All Paintings are from the artist Vered Thalmeier and each Painting has a Painting Tutorial on YouTube. NO boring designs, just beautiful girls. Get Creative! Make your life colorful







Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice


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Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.







The Annie Sloan Collection


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Annie Sloan's complete guide shows you how to use paint to decorate any of the surfaces in your home. Learn the basic skills for using paint on walls and furniture, alongside masterful techniques for painting floors, fabrics, lighting and more. Her 75 step-by-step projects will guide you through using paint to makeover your home, with clear pictorial instructions alongside helpful tips and tricks. With each project learn the essential skills of stencilling, printing, waxing, gilding and dyeing fabric, as well as how to best use Annie's own Chalk Paint® range. Get inspired with Annie's top tips on choosing colours and perfect palettes to work with. The Annie Sloan Collection contains all you need to know to begin your paint journey, for beginners all the way up to paint aficionados. So get ready to unleash your own creativity with paint!