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Light and Shadow in Drawing (Drawing Academy Series)
Parramon's Editorial Team

Barron's Educational Series, 2006

Incorporating the essentials of light and shadow in any drawing gives the artwork visual dimension and adds elements of drama and realism to the subject being portrayed. Light and shadow are the main subjects covered in this instructive book for beginning art students, with examples and exercises in still life, landscape drawing, and portraiture. All titles in the Drawing Academy series guide students step-by-step through the art of disciplined ...

Line and Shading in Drawing (Drawing Academy Series)

Barron''s Educational Series, 2005

Students are instructed in various line-drawing techniques, including cross-hatching to create shadow effects, and methods for suggesting a variety of textures and surfaces—stone, wood, glass, and fabrics with folds, to name just a few. Finally, art students are instructed in applying these techniques by drawing landscapes, cityscapes, human figures, and many other subjects. Titles in the new Drawing Academy series guide beginning ...

All About Techniques in Illustration

1 review
Parramon's Editorial Team, Parramón's Editorial Team

Barron's Educational Series, 2001

Colorful overview of art techniques
I like to draw when I have the time. I'm not all that good at it, but it's a relaxing and enjoyable hobby. So with that disclaimer, let me say that this book gave me a decent overview of a variety of illustration techniques along with useful examples of how the art is produced from start to finish. The book is nicely designed and there are photos and illustrations on every page along with ...

Basics of Artistic Drawing, The (The Complete Course on Drawing and Painting)

1 review
Parramon's Editorial Team

Barron's Educational Series, 1994

Basics
The Basics of Artistic Drawing is an OUTSTANDING book. I have learned so much and whenever I review the materiel I learn even more. There are so many helpful hints. It is a book that keeps teaching; if you have any questions just review the section on that topic and your question will more than likely be answered. With the step by step instructions anyone can learn how to draw, shade, and ...

All About Techniques in Watercolor (All about Techniques: Art)

3 reviews
Parramon's Editorial Team

Barron's Educational Series, 1997

"All about Techniques" is an artist's essential
I have been looking for an in-depth watercolor reference book for some time and I was not satisfied until I received this book. It is so complete, so perfect, that you'll feel as if you never need another book to draw from. In clear, practical language, combined with vivid illustrations, the book covers all about materials and tools. Then it goes on to cover just about every possible technique ...

All About Techniques in Airbrush

3 reviews
Parramon's Editorial Team

Barron''s Educational Series, 2002

Great Book on Airbrushing
I am new to Airbrushing have taken 2 10 week classes, but this book started at the begining and went on to the very advanced and made many things clearer. I would recomend it to anyone who had an interest in Airbrushing.

All About Techniques in Color (All About Techniques Series)
Parramon's Editorial Team

Barron's Educational Series, 2000

Barron's All About Techniques books offer advanced instruction to ambitious art students and experienced hobbyists. This book presents a thorough review of color theory, with instruction on how to mix primary colors to produce virtually every color and every gradation in the visible spectrum. Practical exercises apply primarily to watercolor, oil, gouache, acrylic, inks, and pastel.

All About Techniques in Pastel (All About Techniques)

7 reviews
Parramon's Editorial Team

Barron's Educational Series, 1998

all inclusive
As far as a pastel technique book goes this one is all inclusive. It has the latest techniques including the mixing of pastel with other elements like water and alcohol and so on. Pastel line, color mixing, blending. The strong point of the book is that it gives an example of how to paint in pastel almost any subject like skies, rooftops, water, water in motion, vegetation, fruit, skin, ...

The Basics of Drawing (Drawing Academy Series)

Barron''s Educational Series, 2005

This title enlightens beginning students on the variety of available drawing media, as well as specific paper textures used in drawing. It proceeds with instruction on rendering basic shapes-spheres, cylinders, cones, cubes, and the like—and incorporating these shapes into still lifes, landscapes, and other subjects for illustration. Students also learn how to produce the illusion of light and create contrasts, as well as how to produce ...

All About Techniques in Oil (All About Techniques)

8 reviews
Parramon's Editorial Team

Barron's Educational Series, 1997

A great reference book for artists
Although starters may find "new" things more often than professional artists when reading this book, I give this book a 5-star rating as a reference book. The book covers from material, tools, to brushstroke and other techniques in oil. In brief, readers can learn what to buy to prepare painting in oil, how to put material together (canvas, priming canvas, etc...), and how to achieve painting ...

All About Techniques in Drawing (All about Techniques: Art)

2 reviews
Parramon's Editorial Team

Barron's Educational Series, 1999

Good for beginners and advanced beginners
I purchased this book because it provides a quick and dirty run down of the different forms of media one can use to draw a picture. In the first section of the book, it talks about the tools you can use: graphite, colored pencils, pastels, ink, markers, charcoal and sanguine-just to name a few. It also tells you what type of paper goes best with each drawing material as well as the type of ...

Charcoal, Sanguine Crayon, and Chalk: Instruction and exercises for drawing and sketching in three popular ...

2 reviews
Parramon's Editorial Team

Barron''s Educational Series, 2002

a wonderful book!
This book helps you learn the "painterly" way of drawing with the broader dry media. Even though not specifically for pastels, it will help your pastel works.

Acrylics (Purple Series) (Barron's Art Handbooks: Purple Series)
Parramon's Editorial Team

Barron's Educational Series, 1997

Tools are described and techniques are shown with examples of acrylic paintings in various stages of progress.

The Renaissance (Barron's Art Handbooks: Yellow Series)
Parramon Ediciones Editorial Team

Barrons Educational Series Inc, 1999

Yellow Series: The Renaissance began in the Italian city-states of the Quattrocento and rapidly throughout Europe. Artists covered here include Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and many others. About the series: These pocket-size volumes make good reference guides for art teachers and students. They are heavily illustrated in color, and are filled with descriptions, technical details, and instructional ...

All About Techniques in Dry Media (All About Techniques)

Barron''s Educational Series, 2005

Books in this popular series instruct experienced amateurs as well as more advanced art students who have already mastered basic art techniques. Combining comprehensive textual advice with many highly detailed illustrations, these books teach students how to create complete, highly finished artwork of professional quality. This volume instructs on the uses of charcoal sticks and pencils, sanguine, pastels, chalk, crayons, and colored pencils. It ...

Barron's Art Handbooks Drawing (Barron's Art Handbooks: Purple Series)

1 review

Barron's Educational Series, 1997

Excellent book on drawing
This book covers all the media and many techniques of drawing. I would not have this instead of Parramon's "Drawing in Penicl", but it is nevertheless very helpful.

Airbrush (Painter's Corner Series)

2 reviews

Barron's Educational Series, 2004

Not what I was looking for
I bought some books with Airbrush paintings a few years a go from a nearby half price books. I was always amazed at the quality of the paintings and got quite interested to learn how the technique works. I am not an artist myself, so I was not looking for a very detailed technical book, but detailed enough to explain someone like me how this great technique works. I hoped this book will be the ...

Ceramics

1 review
Parramon's Editorial Team

Barron''s Educational Series, 2002

CERAMICS by Dolors Ros
This conveniently sized and well illustrated book on "ceramics" does not initially state what kind of ceramics the writer is writing about. In the USA, we differentiate between earthenware [low-fire] and stoneware [high-fire] before reccomending materials or techniques and it wasn't until I flipped back to the section on firing that I discovered that the author was referring only to EARTHENWARE. ...

Oils: Purple Series (Barron's Art Handbooks: Purple Series)
Parramon's Editorial Team

Barron's Educational Series, 1996

Techniques of oil painting are spelled out, from canvas stretching and sizing, through color mixing, contrasting, brushwork, and much more.

Still Life (The Painter's Corner Series)
Parramon's Editorial Team

Barron's Educational Series, 2004

This title focuses on visually satisfying compositions in which the main elements are flowers, fruit and vegetable arrangements, and even arrangements of abstract geometric shapes. Both examples of famous paintings and step-by-step examples of works in progress are included among this book’s hundreds of color illustrations. Reproductions of memorable still lifes include works by Chardin, C©zanne, Mir³, and many others. Titles in Barron’s ...

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