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All About Techniques in Drawing
(All about Techniques: Art)
Books in the All About Techniques series are among Barron's more advanced art instruction manuals. They make good textbooks for art instruction classes, and are also useful to ambitious amateur hobbyists working on their own. The newest of these color-illustrated volumes instructs on how to achieve highly finished illustrations in a variety of media, including pencil, charcoal, chalk, and ink. It also advises on the uses of various grades of paper and the many different drawing tools and their uses.

Basic Watercolor Techniques

Airbrush : The Complete Studio Handbook

Acrylic Painting : A Complete Guide
Comprehensive and richly illustrated survey by noted artist and teacher introduces acrylic colors and their characteristics, discusses painting surfaces and how to prepare them, lists painting tools and their performance, and much more. Step-by-step instructions and technical exercises for experimenting with major methods, among them opaque, transparent (watercolor), acrylic tempera, mixed media and others. 125 halftones. 32 color illustrations.

Acrylic School
(Reader's Digest Learn-As-You-Go-Guide)
A complete guide to the perfect medium for first-time painters and for artists looking for a new medium: step-by-step painting sequences show you how to master the techniques and develop your own style, 9 step-by-step demonstration projects show the whole process of picture making as you "look over the artist's shoulder", and a gallery of finished paintings, annotated to highlight important technical points, covers all subject areas.

100 Keys to Great Watercolor Painting

Oil Painting Basics :
An Artist's Guide to Mastering the Medium
Packed with handy tips and solutions to common problems, this easy-to-use guide works through the basics of oil painting. Helpful chapters on materials and techniques plus step-by step instructions for more than 10 full-scale works show how to produce impressive oil paintings simply and with flair. Timothy Easton's inspiring examples and concise explanations show how to capture a rich diversity of subjects - from jaunty boating scenes to luminous fields of irises.

The Beginner's Guide Watercolour :
A Complete Step-By-Step Guide to
Techniques and Materials
(The Beginner's Guide Series)
This fascinating guide makes it easy, revealing the secrets of master painters like Durer and Turner, as well as contemporary techniques. Full-color photos on each page display a wide range of techniques, including glazing, backruns, and masking out. Best of all: your very first watercolor will be suitable for framing!