Art Techniques & Principles

The work of Henri Matisse (18691954) reflects an ongoing belief in the power of brilliant colors and simple forms. Though famed in particular for h...

Silverpoint, and metalpoint more generally, is the practice of marking with soft metal on a specifically prepared drawing surface. Practiced for ce...

Quickly learn the basics of brushwork, color mixing, and how to create gorgeous watercolor images while on the go! Designed for artists who are st...

Take your sketching practice to the next level with this practical and inspiring guide to drawing what you seeand beyond. Sketching from life is cr...

Urban sketching has become one of the biggest art trends of the last decade, with artists preferring to capture a scene on location rather than rel...

Stripes, Grids and Checks considers the nature of lines and assemblies of lines, including stripes and grids, as well as related phenomena such as ...

Learn how to draw a bestiary of supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore, and discover their origins as you go.Yokai is a Japanese term for my...

Slow Looking can lead to unexpected and huge rewards. In Book One - Learning to Look Robert Cumming shares his own slow discovery of the pleasures ...

The Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting Techniques in Photoshop: Sci-fi and Fantasy is a step-by-step guide exploring the fundamental aspects of t...

This elegant Fourth Edition of Chip Sullivan's classic Drawing the Landscape shows how to use drawing as a path towards understanding the natural a...

Lisanne Heitel shows how a re-evaluation of coloration by Goethe and other renowned art theorists paved the way for a rediscovery of colours in the...

A passionate and purposeful book on finding real creativity through nature. An essential book for our times and all artists at whatever level. In h...

For the 26th book in his highly successful P&Q series, Kaffe has chosen a bucolic English farm as the inspiration for his new collection of qui...

The abundance of images in our everyday livesand the speed at which they are consumedseems to have left us unable to critique them. To rectify this...

How to rest, reconnect and rejuvenate through practical lessons, creativity and conscious living. The Joy of Wintering celebrates the way...

A comprehensive and practical guide to painting watercolour buildings with atmosphere, character and accuracy, from renowned artist Nicholas Poulli...

Influenced by the exotic, lush landscapes of his childhood years in Hawaii, Hunt Slonem's richly colored, impressionistic bird paintings are celebr...

The perfect guide to producing successful hand drawings of interior designs. Sitting quietly at home, sketchbook in hand, is the ideal way to tack...

Millions of paintings were produced in the Dutch Republic. The works that we know and see in museums today constitute only the tip of the iceberg ...

Master the design ideas that shape the world we live in today.In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Jervis introduces and explains the centralm...

A visually stunning guide to architectural drawing from the RIBA Collections for students and those wanting to understand how to develop their grap...

The long-awaited sequel to the seminal How To Make Webcomics, thismassive tutorial based on Brad Guigar's four years of writing at Webcomics.comcov...

Magic Realms celebrates the incredible art of the brilliant and highly respected fantasy and science fiction artists who, over the years, worked wi...

The best of both worldslearn how to draw anime characters and their cute, colorful, and expressive chibi counterparts from popular anime artist and...

Drawing is a universal language, but not everybody feels capable of not even give it a go. This is a useful and entertaining book about the pleasur...

Widely loved illustrator Tasia brings her unique style to this issue's cover design, and she also provides an in-depth tutorial to show us how she ...

This book follows the cyclical development of 3D media from the 1830s to the present, tracing an alternate history of modernism in which virtual de...