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Painting with a Palette Knife
Oil Painting Techniques
Author: William Powell
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781560101260
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The palette knife and painting knife are intriguing and expressive tools. Working in oil with a painting knife adds an element of texture and spontaneity to fine art that simply cannot be achieved with a paintbrush alone. Oil Painting Techniques addresses everything you want to know about painting with a knife, including the materials you will need to get started, as well as hand positions, paint mixing, and coverage techniques. Follow step-by-step instructions to create different textures and master numerous applications: thick and thin coverage, dot and sidestrokes, and much more. From painting thickly impasto style to using your knife to scrape away lines of paint, itÆs all right here in this comprehensive guide!
The Art of Drawing Optical Illusions
Author: Jonathan Stephen Harris
Publisher: Walter Foster
Published: 2017-11
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 1633223558
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From impossible shapes to three-dimensional sketches and trick art, you won't believe your eyes as you learn to draw optical illusions in graphite and colored pencil. Perfect for beginning artists, The Art of Drawing Optical Illusions begins with a basic introduction to optical illusions and how they work. Jonathan Stephen Harris then guides you step-by-step in creating mind-blowing pencil drawings, starting with basic optical illusions and progressing to more difficult two- and three-dimensional trick art. Perspective and dimension are difficult to capture for both beginning and established artists, but now you can hone those skills in the most unique way possible, while also exercising your mind with these brain-boosting, unbelievable tricks!
The Fur Person [Illustrated Edition]
Author: May Sarton
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2015-11-06
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 1786250918
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes 10 illustrations by Barbara Knox A delightful, whimsical tale—one of the most popular books for cat lovers ever written. May Sarton’s fictionalized account of her cat Tom Jones’s life and adventures prior to making the author’s acquaintance begins with a fiercely independent, nameless street cat who follows the ten commandments of the Gentleman Cat—including “A Gentleman Cat allows no constraint of his person, not even loving constraint.” But after several years of roaming, Tom has grown tired of his vagabond lifestyle, and he concludes that there might be some appeal after all in giving up the freedom of street life for a loving home. It will take just the right human companion, however, to make his transformation from Cat About Town to genuine Fur Person possible. Sarton’s book is one of the most beloved stories ever written about the joys and tribulations inherent in sharing one’s life with a cat.
Imaginative Realism
Author: James Gurney
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 2009-10-20
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0740785508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A examination of time-tested methods used by artists since the Renaissance to make realistic pictures of imagined things.
Still Knife Painting
Author: Cheryl Hollon
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
Published: 2020-06-30
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1496725255
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Miranda Trent has set up a sweet life in a scenic corner of Appalachia—until she stumbles across the trail of a killer . . . After inheriting her uncle’s Red River Gorge homestead in Eastern Kentucky—smack dab in the middle of the Daniel Boone National Forest—Miranda comes up with a perfect business plan for summer tourists: pairing outdoor painting classes with sips of local moonshine, followed by a mouthwatering sampler of the best in southern cooking. To Miranda’s delight, Paint & Shine is a total success—until someone kills the cook. As the town’s outsider, suspicion naturally falls on Miranda. Murdering the best biscuit baker of Red River Gorge is a high crime in these parts. Miranda will have to prove her innocence before she’s moved from farmhouse to jail cell faster than she can say “white lightning” . . . “Set against the blazing backdrop of an Appalachian fall, Still Knife Painting serves up a tasty stew of murder and moonshine. In this series debut, Cheryl Hollon weaves a tale as complex and country as the antique braided rug that figures in the story.” —Barbara Ross, author of the Maine Clambake Mysteries “Cozy mystery fans will make room on their keeper shelves for Hollon’s charming new series.” —Ellery Adams, New York Timesand USA Today bestselling author
Buttercream Petals
Author: Neetha Syam
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2021-07-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1782218246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Create beautiful buttercream flowers and leaves using piping and palette knife painting techniques. Master the art of decorating cakes with buttercream flowers in this stunning book from cake artist and tutor Neetha Syam. Neetha's strong, vibrant style and novel techniques make her designs really stand out from the crowd. In particular, she has developed a unique way of working that involves painting the flowers onto the cake using a palette knife, and the book will include both this and the more traditional piping technique to show how to create a multitude of flowers and how to decorate 10 glorious cakes. The book includes a materials and tools section and some basic cake recipes, as well as sections on making and colouring buttercream, preparing piping bags, covering and stacking cakes. Projects range from cupcakes to one, two and three-tiered cakes, featuring Neetha's stunning piped and palette-knife painted flowers, leaves and embellishments. Whether you are a home baker or experienced cake decorator, Neetha's designs will not fail to inspire you to create cakes that look as mouth-wateringly delicious as they taste!
How to Paint with a Palette Knife
Author: Heith Vierow
Publisher:
Published: 2019-05-28
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9781070613420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Join me in this journey through 12 oil paintings to exercise and refine your palette knife techniques! In each painting I explain the details of a value sketch, the color scheme, oil paint colors and how to mix them, and then a series of steps outlining how to create the different textures using palette knives. You will also find a linked video demonstration for each oil painting as you begin. As an added bonus there is a linked video on how to gesso a board, and how to varnish your painting when it is completely dry. I am certain that you will enjoy the different motifs ranging from landscapes, still lifes and figurative art.
Water Mixable Oils
Author: Michael Sanders
Publisher: Search Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780855329808
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now you can paint with oils using water to thin the colours, and soap and water to clean the brushes, and the results are just as vibrant, textured and exciting. Using this versatile and easy-to-use medium, Michael Sanders shows you how to master water mixable oils - with hints, tips and guidelines on glazing, blending, scumbling, stippling, impasto and more. The paints work just like conventional oils and their consistency, lightfastness, transparency/opacity and performance allow artists to use them for all oil painting techniques. In this book, Michael includes simple step-by-step demonstrations to build up confidence and to help improve skills. He offers expert guidance on the medium, showing how to create successful, vibrant paintings full of atmosphere and interest. Landscapes, flowers, buildings and more are included, providing an ideal guide and an inspirational introduction to these environmentally friendly paints.
