Learn how to make simple watercolor cards that you'll enjoy making just as much as your friends and family will enjoy receiving. Courtney Cerruti demonstrates how to create elegant motifs using watercolor and simple brushstrokes or how to use a stencil to apply watercolor if you feel intimidated by the medium. Learn how to personalize your cards with a family photo and make photocopies to create an entire set of handmade cards. Finally, add that same...

Because nature is so expansive and complex, so varied in its range of light, landscape painters often have to look further and more deeply to find form and structure, value patterns, and an organized arrangement of shapes. In Landscape Painting, Mitchell Albala shares his concepts and practices for translating nature's grandeur, complexity, and color dynamics into convincing representations of space and light. Concise, practical, and inspirational,...

This book helps children to explore the uses of materials including chalk, paint and pencil through a number of different, imaginative projects including ink beetles, deep-sea fish, lemon juice frogs and the creation of a Venetian street. These original projects should be of value to art teachers and experienced artists looking for inspiration as well as aspiring artists who should gain in confidence as they progress through the book.

You don't need to consider yourself a painter to create this colorful work of art. Courtney introduces you to a bold way of applying color to a canvas that results in this bright, abstract field of color. Courtney talks you through how to create a cohesive palette, then evaluate and build your work of art until you determine that it's ready to grace your walls with its confident swaths of color.

When Andy Warhol first used this blotted-line monoprint method, illustrators were amazed - and they're still amazed today! In this class, Creativebug's resident artist, Courtney Cerruti, walks you through the very same process that Andy Warhol made famous using simple materials: a nib pen, acrylic ink and transparency film. Plus, of course, you'll need a wonderful image to trace. Without any drawing skills required, you'll learn how to create one-of-a-kind...

Traces the life of the Renaissance artist and analyzes some of his paintings.

Moving beyond a focus on the technical properties of acrylic paints, this new book opens your mind and eyes to the artistic possibilities that are uniquely suited to the medium. Once you become familiar with what acrylic paint is, you are ready to explore what it can become. Focusing on specific technical and application processes, this invaluable handbook demonstrates the many techniques used to produce the varied effects and painting styles that...

A comprehensive guide for the enthusiastic beginner and experienced artist alike, embracing seven basic elements of art technique in one volume. The subjects included are drawing, perspective, watercolor, pastels, oil painting, acrylics, and mixed media.

Artists, designers, printers, and crafters alike would agree that the selection and use of color is of great importance to their work. And yet, a great deal of misunderstanding surrounds color mixing. Michael Wilcox offers a total reassessment for the principles underlying color and color usage. This revised edition of the original Blue & Yellow Don't Make Green--the first major breakaway from the traditional concepts of the three primary colors:...