Название: A Step-by-Step Guide to Botanical Drawing & Painting: Create Realistic Pencil and Watercolor Illustrations of Flowers, Fruits, Plants and More!
Автор: Hidenari Kobayashi
Издательство: Tuttle Publishing
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Размер: 59 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The art of botanical drawing and painting brings you closer to nature! In this lushly illustrated book, master painter and art teacher Hidenari Kobayashi provides step-by-step instructions showing you how to create botanical drawings and paintings in the popular French botanical style. He details all the tools and materials needed, describes in detail the techniques you'll use, and walks you through the creative process of drawing and painting 18 different botanical subjects. A Step-by-Step Guide to Botanical Drawing & Painting provides everything you need to learn this charming style of artistic expression—from first sketch to final brushstroke!

Название: Essential Human Anatomy for Artists: A Complete Visual Guide to Drawing the Structures of the Living Form
Автор: Ken Goldman
Издательство: Rockport Publishers
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 38 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Study human anatomy to translate nature into drawings that are both anatomically accurate and artistically beautiful. Essential Human Anatomy for Artists is an anatomy course in a book that’s designed to offer you new tools to help you understand the connections between exterior forms and deeper structures. For artists at every level of experience, Essential Human Anatomy for Artists allows you to learn to work freely and confidently with the human figure and use the information it provides to create an accurate visual impression. The For Artists series expertly guides and instructs artists at all skill levels who want to develop their classical drawing and painting skills and create realistic and representational art.

Название: Take Three Colours: Watercolour Landscapes
Автор: Geoff Kersey
Издательство: Search Press
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 23 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This absolute beginner's guide to watercolour painting shows you how to create beautiful landscapes using basic, affordable materials. Geoff Kersey explains the fundamental principles of watecolour painting, demonstrating how first-time painters can achieve satisfying results with just three colours, three brushes, a plastic palette and a watercolour pad. Using inexpensive and easy-to-find paints—light red, cadmium yellow pale, and ultramarine blue—Geoff shows how nine realistic watercolour scenes can be painted. Starting from the simplest of scenes, Geoff builds skills through the series of projects. Start with a simple sky and progress through a basic scene with a reflected sunset, to landscapes that include simple buildings and even a figure. With clear advice and step-by-step photographs, this volume offers everything you need to get painting.

Название: Field Sketching for Environmental Designers
Автор: Chip Sullivan
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Размер: 178 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This graphic sketchbook is a primer for sparking imagination and creativity in landscape architecture and urban design drawing. Field Sketching for Environmental Designers is an ideal guide and companion for both beginning and advanced drawing enthusiasts. The text is profusely illustrated and loaded with fun and enlightening examples of work from a plethora of experienced artists, designers, planners and naturalists from around the world. Each chapter provides easy-to-follow instructions on a wide variety of techniques for field sketching and plein-air painting. The exercises are designed to help readers progressively build a set of skills that will help them construct meaning and gain knowledge from on-site, field observation.

Название: Creative Portraits in Watercolor: Learn to Paint Faces and Characters with Beginner-Friendly Lessons - Explore Watercolor, Ink, Gouache, and More
Автор: Ana Santos
Издательство: Quarry Books
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 28 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Learn to create gorgeous portraits in watercolor using easy techniques. Written and illustrated by Ana Santos, an artist and illustrator and a popular online instructor, Creative Portraits in Watercolor presents simple step-by-step demonstrations and beginner-level exercises to create expressive, imaginative portraits. With Creative Portraits in Watercolor, you’ll learn to achieve stunning results with a wide variety of simple techniques.

Название: Plants and Flowers: 1761 Illustrations for Artists and Designers
Автор: Alan E. Bessette, William K. Chapman
Издательство: Dover Publications
Год: 1992
Формат: PDF
Размер: 179 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This comprehensive archive offers authentically detailed, copyright-free illustrations of hundreds of plants and flowers from around the world. Ideal for graphic artists, designers, and others in the arts and crafts, it will also serve both serious and casual botanists as a convenient reference and key to identification of a broad range of botanical species. Each illustration has been carefully selected from botanical archives for its scientific accuracy, artistic style, and suitability for reproduction. The plants and flowers are grouped by kind, uses, and habitats into seventeen categories, among them aquatic plants, carnivorous plants, grasses, rushes and sedges, orchids, ornamental plants, plants of commerce, mushrooms, molds and lichens, ferns, mosses, trees, shrubs, weeds, wildflowers, and vines. For easy and accurate reference, both common and botanical Latin names are given for each species whenever possible. All names have been compiled into two convenient indexes.

Название: Mastering Light in Watercolor: 25 Stunning Projects That Explore Painting Sunsets, Nighttime Scenes, Sunny Landscapes, and More
Автор: Kolbie Blume
Издательство: Page Street Publishing
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 189 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From a lonely mountain highway bathed in midday sun and glittering city lights reflecting off a calm ocean, to a haunted house peeking out of early morning mist and a winter sunset illuminating a snowy forest, this brilliant collection of watercolor masterpieces is an essential primer on representing light in all its varied forms. Artist and author Kolbie Blume breaks complex concepts into easily grasped steps, so that anyone―even beginners―can paint vibrant scenes full of light and luminance. Paintings like Ancient Glow, Twilight Seas and Magic in the Fields allow you to master everything from bright afternoon sunlight and glowing golden hour beams to shimmering starlight and magical misty dawn. Each gorgeous painting teaches you new tricks and techniques to beautifully represent outdoor scenes during any time of the day. Kolbie’s thoughtful, easy-to-follow instructions make it simple to harness color and light in watercolor paintings transforming everyday scenes into something extraordinary.

Название: The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration
Автор: Stephen A. Harris
Издательство: Reaktion Books
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Размер: 51 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In a world flooded with images designed to create memories, validate perceptions, and influence others, botanical illustration is about something much more focused: creating technically accurate depictions of plants. Reproductions of centuries-old botanical illustrations frequently adorn greeting cards, pottery, and advertising, to promote heritage or generate income, yet their art is scientific: intended to record, display, and transmit scientific data. The Beauty of the Flower tells the backstory of these images, showing us how scientific botanical illustrations are collaborations among artists, scientists, and publishers. It explores the evolution and interchanges of these illustrations since the mid-fifteenth century, how they have been used to communicate scientific ideas about plants, and how views of botanical imagery change. Featuring unique images rarely seen outside of specialist literature, this book reveals the fascinating stories behind these remarkable illustrations.

Название: Beginning Composition: Tips and techniques for creating well-composed works of art in acrylic, watercolor, and oil
Автор: Kimberly Adams
Издательство: Walter Foster Publishing
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Размер: 44 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Learn to create eye-catching, well-composed works of art using acrylic, oil, and watercolor paints with Beginning Composition. From the concept- and technique-driven Portfolio series comes Beginning Composition, which details how to compose a work of art so that it draws in—and then holds—the viewer’s attention. This book features quick exercises for getting started in art, primers on the principles of composition and the Rule of Thirds, what to look for when composing artwork, examples of successful (and unsuccessful) compositions from a selection of artists, and customizable painting projects. Beginning Composition is written and illustrated by Kimberly Adams, an experienced author and professional artist with years of experience in creating versatile, stunning works of art, as well as co-author of Oil & Acrylic Workshop (Walter Foster Publishing).

Название: Drawing for Dummies, 3rd Edition
Автор: Platt Jamie
Издательство: For Dummies
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Размер: 15 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Anyone can learn to draw with these easy instructions and fun practice ideas. Drawing For Dummies makes it easy to learn the basics of drawing and even master advanced techniques. With a little instruction and practice, there’s no such thing as “I just can’t draw.” Drawing can help you relieve stress, express your emotions and creativity, communicate across cultures, improve memory, and develop and strengthen fine motor skills. This user-friendly Dummies resource will teach you how to see the world through the eyes of an artist, explore your inner visions, and open up your creativity through drawing exercises. Step-by-step illustrations and images, newly enlarged in this edition, will show you exactly how to achieve the results you want. It might be time to invest in some picture frames, because you’re about to make art you can be proud of.