Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
The definitive work on the profound and surprising links between manic-depression and creativity, from the…
Art Class: A Complete Guide to Painting
From the team behind Chronicle Books’ best-selling art reference book Artist’s Manual comes the ultimate…
Backpacker Painting: Outdoors with Oil and Pastel
Award-winning landscape painter Michael Chesley Johnson shows how to paint outdoors (en plein air) by…
Who Says That’s Art?: A Commonsense View of the Visual Arts
Today’s artworld experts accept virtually anything as “art”–from all-black paintings and facsimiles of supermarket cartons…
Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan has translated Sefer Yetzirah, the oldest and most mysterious of all kabbalistic…
Express Yourself with Pastel
Carole Katchen, well-known artist, workshop instructor and author, invites readers to begin expressing their own…
Simplifying Design & Color for Artists: Positive Results Using Negative Painting Techniques
When you become a better designer and colorist, you become a better painter. Painting…
Painting Better Landscapes: Specific Ways to Improve Your Oils
This innovative book includes advice on solving problems, conveying mood, focusing attention, arranging subjects, and…
The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
Michael Kimmelman, the prominent New York Times writer and a regular contributor to The New…
Isaak Levitan: Lyrical Landscape
The first western study of the renowned Russian 19th century landscapes painter Isaak Levitan. …