A step-by-step course in a popular painting medium, with advice for beginner and inspiration for more experienced artists. Practical projects help you refine your skills, and examples by contemporary artists show different approaches.
Learn how to work with oils and acrylics with this simple step-by-step course in techniques and stylistic approaches. From getting started to achieving excellence - perfect for the beginner, as well as providing inspiration for more advanced artists. Packed with useful advice on how to treat the classical subjects, including still lifes, landscapes, figures and portraits.
A step-by-step course in drawing, with practical guidance on how to treat classical subjects, from portraits, figures and animals to buildings and still life. Over 20 how-to projects teach and refine techniques in your own drawings, including an ink-and-wash horse, oil-pastel sgraffito leaves, fruits drawn with charcoal, sketched figures, and a pencil-drawn cat. Includes information about all…
A step-by-step course in pastel drawing and coloration, and instructions for developing your own personal style. Perfect both for the beginner and the more advanced artist, from getting started to achieving excellence with pastels. Projects include charcoal and pastel houses, a bunch of flowers with a textured ground, a sgraffito landscape, and a monochrome portrait of a man's face. Includes in…
Pita Maha: gerakan Sosial Seni Lukis Bali 1930-an diangkat dari disertasi Wayan Kun Adnyana di ISI Yogyakarta. Penulis tidak hanya berfokus apda sejarah Pita Maha, melainkan juga sejarah seni lukis Bali sebelum lahirnya gerakan sosial seni ini. Pita Maha sendiri, seperti diketahui, bukan semata-mata komunitas pelukis biasa. Kelompok ini dalam perkembangannya telah menjadi semacam gerakan yang m…
Would you love to take your art in a new direction? In Abstract Art Painting, you will enter a realm of tactile, intuitive excitement, combining pastel and acrylic to achieve results as unique as you are. You'll learn how to explore the use of color theory in abstraction and to use underpainting to bring structure and depth to your art. In addition you'll begin to understand how to work in a…
The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31-1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beautiful, evocative landscapes as well as religious subjects, both notable for their vernacular language and attention to everyday, contemporary life. Immersing himself in rural or small-town communities, Bruegel is particularly nota…
As cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516) remain some of the most enduring enigmas of the art world. Their intricate, allegorical, and often startling content has captivated not only art historians, but also fashion designers, rock stars, writers, and punk rockers, as well as countless modern and contemporary artist successors. Although rooted in t…