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Paint Along with Jerry Yarnell Volume One – Painting Basics

You can transform a blank canvas into a spectacular landscape even if you’ve never painted before. Jerry Yarnell—the master of popular painting—will show you how with his successful step-by-step painting techniques. You’ll learn to create beautiful art, building your skills and having fun every time you approach the canvas. The lessons inside will enable you to produce 10 …

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Painting Beyond Pollock

Painting Beyond Pollock is a captivating account of the history of European and American painting from the mid‐20th century onwards.Art historian and critic Morgan Falconer presents an extensively researched piece of writing that explains why painting has surged in popularity since Jackson Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists began painting in the late 1940s–early 1950s.Drawing on both original sources …

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Writing About Art

Writing About Art was written as the text for a course of the same name required of all art majors at The City College of New York. The book explains the different approaches college students encounter in undergraduate art history classes. Each chapter outlines the characteristics of one type of visual or historical analysis and briefly explains …

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Perspective as Symbolic Form

Erwin Panofsky’s Perspective as Symbolic Form is one of the great works of modern intellectual history, the legendary text that has dominated all art historical and …

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Lee Hammond’s Big Book of Drawing

Master the Essentials of Realistic DrawingsWith Lee Hammond’s Big Book of Drawing, your art will spring to life! From laughing children and frolicking tigers to fruit so vivid it makes your mouth water, you’ll discover how to realistically draw your favorite subjects and how to draw them well! Learn to:Use easy-to-master graphing and shaping techniques to better portray …

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Dynamic Light and Shade

Mastery of light and shade – rendered with accuracy and expressive power – is the key to three-dimensional form in drawing and painting. Here is the first book on this essential subject, the product of years of study by one of the world’s great teachers of drawing and an artist of international renown, Burne Hogarth.Hogarth begins with the …

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Hollywood Makeup Lab: Industry Secrets and Techniques

Have you ever been to a movie and wondered how in the world makeup artists make the characters look so vivid and magnificent? For special effects makeup guru Bruna Nogueira, it’s all in a day’s work. The Hollywood Makeup Lab offers a peek into some of the coolest special effects tips and tricks, from Crime Scene Investigation sets …

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Anatomy Lessons From the Great Masters

This classic book, whose foremost author was one of the great artistic anatomy teachers of the twentieth century, is an invaluable instructor and reference guide for any professional, amateur, or student artist who depicts the human form. Revealing the drawing principles behind one hundred inspiring masterpieces, the book presents work by Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rubens, Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, and …

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Drawing for Older Children & Teens

Everyone can learn how to draw- and feel truly proud of the results – using Mona Brookes’ proven drawing methods. Now the author of America’s best-selling art instruction book for young children provides a complete course for older children, teens and adult beginners.In Part I, you’ll discover the many different styles you can choose to draw in and …

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