How to Use Water-soluble Pencils and Other Aquarelle Media


Book Description

Shows the reader how to use water-soluble (Aquarelle) pencils and pastels, and how to achieve successful results with them. The book discusses the pencils themselves and the different techniques that can be used, and goes on to encourage the reader to practice and get the feel of the pencils.







Sketching with Watercolour Pencils


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Children will find everything they need to master a new art medium with these easy-to-follow art books. Each title includes a practice pad and the tools required to learn a variety of artistic techniques.







New Botanical Painting


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Award-winning artist Harriet de Winton shows you how to create contemporary watercolour artworks to treasure and share. Through more than 30 step-by-step projects, discover how to paint individual flowers and foliage, as well as beautiful botanical compositions. Use your new skills to make art for your wall, unique cards, invitations, or simply paint for pleasure.




Water-Soluble Pencils


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Easy and clean to use, water-soluble pencils are portable and infinitely versatile. Wendy Jelbert here gives lively step-by-step demonstrations of flowers, still-life, landscapes and buildings. Wendy demonstrates the myriad possibilities of water-soluble pencils and other forms of aquarelle media, such as pastels and water-dispersible coloured charcoal pencils. She offers guidance on using and combining these materials for painting and drawing, and shows a wide range of techniques including spraying with water and drawing on wet paper. Her colourful and varied drawings and paintings include fun exercises to get to know the media, helpful step-by-step demonstrations, and a gallery of funished paintings of flowers, gardens and still-life. Replaces ISBN 0 85532 771 5




The New Colored Pencil


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Start coloring, relieve stress, and learn to create radiant, original works of art using colored pencils, wax pastels, and watercolor pencils. Add vibrancy to your coloring creations with instruction from best-selling author and teacher Kristy Kutch as she guides you through recommendations for the newest colored pencil brands, best drawing surfaces, and groundbreaking techniques. Including easy step-by-step demonstrations and inspiring art from today’s best colored pencil artists, The New Colored Pencil shows you how to use color theory to your advantage, combine color media, create and enhance textures, and experiment with surfaces to create phenomenal effects. Whether you use traditional wax-based, or watercolor colored pencils, The New Colored Pencil will take your creative art pieces to a whole new level.




Ruby Charm Colors Big Book of Color Charts


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222 page, 8.5 x 11", spiral bound and tabbed Artist Edition book dedicated to charting and swatching colored pencils, pastel pencils, watercolor pencils, ink, and markers. Book includes 49 pre-labeled charts (with color names and numbers) of the most popular brands. Book also includes blank charts for additional brands and media, and a large number of original line art illustrations that can be colored. This book was designed and illustrated for the adult coloring market by Susan Carlson (aka Ruby Charm Colors).




Watercolor Pencil Magic


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Water-soluble colored pencils are portable, versatile and much more forgiving than traditional watercolors, yet many artists have only just begun to tap into this medium's creative potential. This book explores the amazing possibilities of watercolor pencils, providing artists with basic instruction for taking full advantage of them in their artwork. Beginning with an overview of necessary materials and basic techniques, artists will learn from simple mini demos how to mix colors, create washes, layer colors and more. Artists will then see how these painting techniques are employed to capture a variety of popular subjects, including landscapes, flowers, animals, water, people, skies, trees, bridges and buildings. the last chapter of the book demonstrates how to mix watercolor pencils with other mediums to create all kinds of new and interesting effects. Cathy Johnson is the author of five North Light books, including Creating Textures in Watercolor and Watercolor Tricks and Techniques. She has also authored Sierra Club Guide to Sketching Nature and Sierra Club Guide to Painting Nature. She lives in Excelsior Springs, Missouri.




Water Paper Paint


Book Description

This book is not only for "painters" but for all types of creative individuals who want to experience and play with watercolor, whether their background is mixed-media, textile art, journaling, or paper craft. Unlike the typical watercolor text books, this unique, beautiful volume is a field book of inspiration, creative ideas, how to's, and projects, all from an artist's perspective. Each creative exercise features a technique, shows step-by-step photographs, and includes a clever idea for a gift or project that can be made from the painted samples.