Kickstart your creativity and create a masterpiece with step-by-step workshops and advice from professional artists. Whether you want to try your hand at drawing for the first time or fine-tune your artistic skills, 'Artist's Drawing Techniques' is for you. Learn how to work with charcoal, pen, and pastels and discover everything you need to know about tone, colour, texture, line-work, and composition with detailed advice for beginner, intermediate,...

This guide to painting pastels draws on the expertise of three respected artists and includes a rich variety of styles and techniques. Easy to follow instructions show how to master creating tone, colour blending, compositions and perspective, and how to paint landscapes, water, seascapes and flowers in pastel.

Focusing on Art Deco graphic art and illustration, this book features fascinating text on the movement in general, fashion and advertising, accompanied by reproductions of work by talents such as Barbier, Erte, Cassandre and Colin. Sympathetic examples of other forms of Art Deco are also included.

Kickstart your creativity and create a masterpiece with step-by-step workshops and advice from professional artists. Whether you want to try your hand at painting for the first time or brush up on your artistic skills, 'Artist's Painting Techniques' is for you. Learn how to work with watercolours, oils, and acrylics and discover everything you need to know about tone, colour, pattern, brushwork, and composition with detailed advice for beginner, intermediate,...

In this volume, Lucy Davidson reveals the meditative nature of working with clay and its wellbeing benefits for slowing down in busy life, creativity and mindfulness.

Combining Neil Gaiman's extraordinary words with Chris Riddell's deft and striking illustrations, 'Art Matters' will inspire its readers to seize the day in the name of art. Neil Gaiman once said that 'the world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before'. This little book is the embodiment of that vision. A creative call to arms, this timely illustrated collection of ideas, thoughts, feelings and artistic manifestos...

The glowing transparency and spontaneity of watercolour makes it an ideal medium for exploring the effects of sunlight, shadows, mist, stormy skies, and more. This text is packed with useful tips and easy-to-follow techniques, each accompanied by paintings to inspire and help improve skills.

This text takes you through a series of carefully crafted lessons, starting with some basic drawing techniques and then focusing on the different areas of the face. Once you have mastered the features there are a number of advanced lessons teaching you how to create expressions and capture character.

This volume contains thorough yet accessible instruction and stunning artwork by popular TV artist, Alwyn Crawshaw. She demonstrates all the basic methods of painting in this exciting, modern medium of acrylics. Acrylics can be used like oil paint (but without the long drying time), or watered down to look like watercolour - bringing a new adaptability to your painting. There are many step-by-step demonstration paintings of a variety of subjects -...

Billy Farmer lives with his Aunt Joan and Uncle Charlie in the when he is scratched by a radioactive leopard at the local zoo. Gaining leopard-like strength, speed, reflexes, and tree-climbing abilities, when he's not fighting crime, Billy sells photographs of himself to the local paper, using the money to support his frail aunt while contending with his violent, greedy and lazy uncle. With warmth, wit, and stunning artwork by Mike Western and Eric...