Art Techniques & Principles

Learning to render a variety of textures is a fundamental skill for any fine artist, no matter the chosen media or subject matter. The Complete Boo...

Step-by-step instructions for 50 beautiful paintings  including plants, flowers, animals, & more!  Love the look of watercolors but think ...

With Drawing: People, learn to create detailed, realistic drawings of people in graphite pencil from basic shapes. Successfully drawing people is o...

Learn the basics of cartooning in Cartooning 1 with Jack Keely and Carson van Osten!Cartooning 1 explores the basics of cartooning, from character ...

Learn everything you need to know to get started with acrylic painting in Painting: Acrylic Basics.   From the detailed instructions in Painting: A...

Discover how to draw majestic trees in realistic detail, step by easy step, with Drawing: Trees with William Powell.   The qualities we most admire...

Revealing the power of color as physical medium, a key to interpretation, and a mediator of social and political changeThis excellently illustrated...

Develop your character drawing skills with the fun and easy step-by-step guides in Draw 62 Magical Creatures and Make Them Cute. Popular illustrat...

Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1842-1939) was an artist, collector, scholar, and historian working at the dawn of the 20th century. Her first and most pro...

Caught between travel guides and artists'' books, the travel diary has swung between a journalistic documentary style and visual expression. It is ...

101 Textures in Oil & Acrylic features step-by-step instructions for mastering a variety of the most common surfacessand, water, metals, foliag...

*Named Art Book of the Year by Colored Pencil Magazine* *Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority* Render...

This essential publication reintroduces the importance of learning to see by hand, to visualize large-scale design schemes and explain them through...

Colour is fundamental to painting and the ability to mix and reproduce specific hues is an art in itself. Colour theory can be dull and complicated...

Structured like a traditional drawing class, Drawing School: Fundamentals for the Beginner covers the concepts all serious beginning artists need i...

Ira Iraville Sluyterman van Langewedye is a popular contemporary illustrator beloved for her charming watercolour illustrations of nature, small to...

Perfect for beginning artists, The Art of Drawing Optical Illusions will help you create mind-bending optical illusions to fool your brain and teas...

Discover the professional way to colour in with this masterclass from leading artists and art teachers. The colouring-in craze has left many people...

From the astounding to the downright unbelievable, this little volume of mind-blowingly tiny artworks showcases the talents of 24 artists from arou...