CONFIDENT COLOR

Confident Color: An Artist's Guide To Harmony, Contrast And Unity
By Nita Leland

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Learn how to use color in your own way,

What color do you want: sensitive, explosive, dream, atmospheric, moody, cheerful.

in this book, Nita Leland brings logic and intuition to create a foundation color choices that allow you more creative, out of old habits and experiment with new colors.

In a very effective and gives you the freedom to use color in ways personal, meaningful and interesting.

features:

Artwork of more than 50 artists to contribute a personal approach to color.

85 "Try It" activities that will help to develop your awareness of colors and combinations.

Step-by-step demonstrations involving seven artists, who have differences in selecting colors and patterns to paint a variety of subjects.

study using a harmonious color scheme, dynamic contrast and color compatible to express what you want.

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Keys to Drawing

Keys to Drawing
By Bert Dodson



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everyone can draw

Here, Bert Dodson share pictures, its full-system of fifty-five "keys" that you can use to create any topic with confidence, even if you are a beginner.

This key will help you draw like an artist in such a short time, of course, will coincide with a lot of practical exercises.

In this book also you can learn the ways:

Restore, focus, maps, and intensify
Release your hand action, then learn to control it
Convey the illusion of light, texture depth, and
Stimulate your imagination through "creative play"

This book is suitable for those of you who are beginners and want to learn about drawing.

Color Mixing Recipes

Color Mixing Recipes

By William F Powell

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'Popular Color Mixing Recipe Cards by William F. Powell's book is a practical reference book on
color combinations.
And the color guide is now available in a format, updated comfort was developed with the needs of your imagination! and packed in a wire-o book-bound hidden lies flat when opened, recipe cards will always stay in order with no risk of getting lost.
This book also includes a Color Mixing Grid, a perfect guide for accurately measuring paints. With recipes for more than 450 color combinations, along with instruction in various painting techniques,
Color Mixing Recipes is a valuable and practical resource for both oil and acrylic artist

The Animator's Survival Kit, Expanded Edition

The Animator's Survival Kit, Expanded Edition:

A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators
By Richard Williams

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The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Animation is one of the hottest areas of filmmaking today--and the master animator who bridges the old generation and the new is Richard Williams. During his fifty years in the business, Williams has been one of the true innovators, winning three Academy Awards and serving as the link between Disney's golden age of animation by hand and the new computer animation exemplified by Toy Story.

Perhaps even more important, though, has been his dedication in passing along his knowledge to a new generation of animators so that they in turn could push the medium in new directions. In this book, based on his sold-out master classes in the United States and across Europe, Williams provides the underlying principles of animation that every animator--from beginner to expert, classic animator to computer animation whiz --needs. Urging his readers to "invent but be believable," he illustrates his points with hundreds of drawings, distilling the secrets of the masters into a working system in order to create a book that will become the standard work on all forms of animation for professionals, students, and fans.

Van Gogh: The Life

Van Gogh: The Life
By Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith galvanized readers with their astonishing Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, a book acclaimed for its miraculous research and overwhelming narrative power. Now Naifeh and Smith have written another tour de force—an exquisitely detailed, compellingly readable, and ultimately heartbreaking portrait of creative genius Vincent van Gogh.

Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Naifeh and Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials. While drawing liberally from the artist’s famously eloquent letters, they have also delved into hundreds of unpublished family correspondences, illuminating with poignancy the wanderings of Van Gogh’s troubled, restless soul. Naifeh and Smith bring a crucial understanding to the larger-than-life mythology of this great artist—his early struggles to find his place in the world; his intense relationship with his brother Theo; his impetus for turning to brush and canvas; and his move to Provence, where in a brief burst of incandescent productivity he painted some of the best-loved works in Western art.

The authors also shed new light on many unexplored aspects of Van Gogh’s inner world: his deep immersion in literature and art; his erratic and tumultuous romantic life; and his bouts of depression and mental illness.

Though countless books have been written about Van Gogh, and though the broad outlines of his tragedy have long inhabited popular culture, no serious, ambitious examination of his life has been attempted in more than seventy years. Naifeh and Smith have re-created Van Gogh’s life with an astounding vividness and psychological acuity that bring a completely new and sympathetic understanding to this unique artistic genius whose signature images of sunflowers and starry nights have won a permanent place in the human imagination.

Pencil Drawing Techniques Pencil Drawing Techniques From Watson-Guptill Publications

Pencil Drawing Techniques

From Watson-Guptill Publications

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Here is a really good book for the artist who wants to develop his or her pencil drawing abilities, whether it's to improve your preliminary sketch work, or to create beautiful pencil drawings complete in their own right. Pencil Drawing Techniques brings together six of today's best artists, all of whom are incredibly fine instructors as well.

The artists show you how to develop your skill and ability in handling pencil technique. Ferdinand Petrie shows you how to handle pencils and produce a controlled variety of lines, values, and textures. Then he shows you exactly how to use these techniques to draw landscapes in a range of styles and compositions.

Rudy De Reyna explains pencil basics, and explores perspective, size relationships, form, and structure. Douglas grave teaches you how to begin drawing portraits by building a drawing step-by-step. Norman Dams and Joe Singer demonstrate how you can use the pencil to produce spectacular drawings of animals. John Blockley and Richard Bolton show you how pencil drawings can capture the essence of a subject and help you work out a plan for painting it. Finally, Bet Borgeson teaches you all the secrets of colored pencil work and demonstrates a whole new dimension.

The book is divided into seven sections: how to handle a pencil, fundamentals of drawing, drawing landscapes, drawing portraits, drawing animals, drawing for watercolors, and handling color pencils. The copious illustrations show in detail how the artists use their techniques. For the artist who uses the pencil, Pencil Drawing Techniques is an an excellent instructional book of ideas for using the pencil creatively.

Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner

Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner
By Claire Watson Garcia

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Based upon the author’s own successful workshops, Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner helps new artists create competent, often eloquent drawings. A series of progressive lessons demonstrates such essential skills as recording edges, creating dimension, adding accuracy, developing value, balancing compositional elements, and drawing the human face, both frontal and profile views. Step by step, readers learn how to create a reasonable likeness of an object and give it spatial depth using such simple black-and-white mediums as pens, pencils, charcoal, and graphite wash. Inspirational examples and tips for success from beginning students who have worked on the same material confirm readers’ successes, and allow readers to consider the advice and impressions of others at the same level.