Art Class: A Complete Guide to Painting
From the team behind Chronicle Books’ best-selling art reference book Artist’s Manual comes the ultimate…
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Backpacker Painting: Outdoors with Oil and Pastel
Award-winning landscape painter Michael Chesley Johnson shows how to paint outdoors (en plein air) by…
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…
On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft
“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part…
Transparent Watercolor Wheel
Featuring a detachable fold-out color wheel and clear guidelines, this unique book solves the problem…
Problem Solving for Oil Painters: Recognizing What’s Gone Wrong and How to Make it Right
Nine common trouble-spots in oil painting are identified in this book, and readers are helped…
Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist (The Insider’s Guide to Exhibiting and Selling Your Art)
Cay Lang’s Taking the Leap has helped thousands of artists jump start their careers and…