Painter S Quick Reference

The perfect reference for painters! Fast instruction and inspiration is at your fingertips with Painter's Quick Reference: Trees & Foliage. You'll discover a broad collection of easy-to-paint trees, shrubs, leaves, grasses and distant foliage to inspire your work. This accessible guide provides over 350 color photos and step-by-step instructions. In addition, over 40 projects show you how to paint trees and foliage in all seasons using acrylics, oils and watercolor. Among the popular subjects you will find are evergreen trees, maples, willows, oaks and palm trees, spring flowering forsythia shrubs, grasses, and more. This invaluable combination of painting demonstrations and treasury of ideas is guaranteed to bring you success in all of your work.

The perfect reference for painters! Enliven your landscapes! Inside you'll find more than 40 complete step-by-step demonstrations for capturing a range of challenging landscape elements, including clouds, skies, trees, foliage, water, reflections, rocks, mountains and much more. These acrylic, watercolor and oil demonstrations feature the diverse artistic styles of 21 accomplished artists and explore all kinds of settings, the four seasons and different times of day. With every lesson, you'll gain new inspiration and confidence as you overcome trouble spots in your work, try new techniques and experiment with new mediums. Whether you're a beginner or more accomplished painter, take your landscapes to a new level of beauty and realism with Painter's Quick Reference: Landscapes. This invaluable combination of in-depth painting demonstrations and inspiring ideas is guaranteed to bring you success in all of your work. PAINTER'S QUICK REFERENCE SERIES Finding the perfect reference for a painting or home decorating project is often a challenge for the painter, but with the Painter's Quick Reference series, the perfect image is easily within one's grasp. Each volume contains dozens of ideas and images that painters can add to their canvas, walls or other projects. The books in the Painter's Quick Reference series make a handy reference library that every painter will want to own.

The Perfect Reference for Painters! Paint your favorite furry companions! Inside you'll find more than 40 step-by-step demonstrations that clearly show how to accurately capture a variety of popular pet breeds, including tabby cats, terriers, bulldogs and many more. This detailed guide contains useful painting instruction and insights from 18 experienced artists working in acrylics, watercolor and oil. Whether you're painting a cat or dog portrait-style or playfully posed, this book will give you plenty of ideas and tips for nailing the unique details of the animal's face, body and individual personality. This invaluable combination of in-depth painting demonstrations and inspiring ideas is guaranteed to bring you success in all your work.

Offers advice on how to paint more than fifty popular garden flowers, wildflowers, and exotic flowers, discussing watercolor, acrylics, and oils, as well as a variety of styles and techniques within each medium.

The perfect reference for painters! &break;&break;Brighten your paintings with colorful birds and butterflies. Inside you'll find more than 40 step-by-step demonstrations to help you accurately render beautiful butterflies and a wide variety of songbirds, water birds and exotic birds including goldfinches, hummingbirds, cardinals, mallards and peacocks. You'll also learn how to embellish your paintings with individual feathers, eggs and a nest. &break;&break;This special guide features painting instruction and advice from 11 professional artists working in acrylics, watercolors, oils and colored pencils. Each demonstration includes a detailed materials list to make it even easier for you follow along. &break;&break;This invaluable combination of in-depth painting demonstrations and inspiring ideas is guaranteed to bring you success in all your work.

The perfect reference for painters! Brighten your paintings with colorful birds and butterflies. Inside you'll find more than 40 step-by-step demonstrations to help you accurately render beautiful butterflies and a wide variety of songbirds, water birds and exotic birds including goldfinches, hummingbirds, cardinals, mallards and peacocks. You'll also learn how to embellish your paintings with individual feathers, eggs and a nest. This special guide features painting instruction and advice from 11 professional artists working in acrylics, watercolors, oils and colored pencils. Each demonstration includes a detailed materials list to make it even easier for you follow along. This invaluable combination of in-depth painting demonstrations and inspiring ideas is guaranteed to bring you success in all your work.

The perfect reference for painters! Fast instruction and inspiration is at your fingertips! Jam packed with a large collection of bright and colorful, fun-to-paint Santas and snowmen, you will get lots of quick, fresh and new ideas for your holiday gifts and decorations. The range and variety of designs is like no other book! This accessible guide provides over 350 color photos and step-by-step instructions with easy-to-use painting techniques. In addition, you'll find 24 projects - from whimsical and comical snow-people to traditional and charming Santas of all shapes and sizes. This invaluable combination of painting demonstrations and grab bag of ideas is guaranteed to bring you success in all of your work.