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.




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.




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!




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.




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


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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.




ArtCurious


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A wildly entertaining and surprisingly educational dive into art history as you've never seen it before, from the host of the beloved ArtCurious podcast We're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas, handbags, scarves, and dorm-room posters. But did you also know that Monet and his cohort were trailblazing rebels whose works were originally deemed unbelievably ugly and vulgar? And while you probably know the tale of Vincent van Gogh's suicide, you may not be aware that there's pretty compelling evidence that the artist didn't die by his own hand but was accidentally killed--or even murdered. Or how about the fact that one of Andy Warhol's most enduring legacies involves Caroline Kennedy's moldy birthday cake and a collection of toenail clippings? ArtCurious is a colorful look at the world of art history, revealing some of the strangest, funniest, and most fascinating stories behind the world's great artists and masterpieces. Through these and other incredible, weird, and wonderful tales, ArtCurious presents an engaging look at why art history is, and continues to be, a riveting and relevant world to explore.







MouldMaking and Casting


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Mouldmaking and Casting is a technical manual of the many techniques of this ancient craft and art form. With step-by-step illustrations, it explains the materials required and the processes involved to create reproductions of a range of pieces. The book covers traditional techniques as well as today's more advanced technical methods.




Freely and Lightly


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Your Invitation Awaits… You’ve tried harder. You’ve been more intentional. You’ve done everything “right.” In your search for meaning and purpose, you’ve placed your hope in many different things—only to find yourself at a turning point, quietly asking, Is this it? Is this all there is? If the direction of your life is leading you away from peace, contentment, and true fulfillment, Emily Lex has some great news to share with you: God is offering you a better way. A way of real rest. A way of quiet confidence. A way to free yourself from expectations. A way to become the person he created you to be. A way to learn his unforced rhythms of grace. Do you breathe a sigh of hope when you hear this holy and gentle invitation from Jesus? “Come to me… Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” If so, then you are ready to accept his offer to recover and renew your life. Start your journey today.