Painting Books

Water is a fascinating yet challenging subject to paint. It changes forms, moods, shape and color as the surrounding influences are altered. In The Complete Guide to Painting Water, the reader will learn how to paint water in all of it's forms in order to incorporate it as part of ...more

Priced to reach a broad market, this book offers an inviting introduction to the materials and techniques of oil painting. Allrich begins with an outline of the essential components of good painting, then describes the basic materials and tools of the oil medium. The fundamentals are strongly stressed and lessons ...more

Realism in landscape painting is the ultimate goal of many fine artists and leisure-time painters, and this book shows how to achieve that goal by using the right colors, values and textures to express near, middle and great distance. Included are demonstrations for all seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn, ...more

25th Anniversary Edition! * Classic painting book reveals the techniques of the Old Masters * Packed with full-color demonstrations of 16th- and 17th-century oil painting techniques Generations of artists have learned from How to Paint Like the Old Masters, the classic volume that explores the techniques used by the great ...more

"Everything was alive, pulsing with light and color." --Susan Sarback This is more than a how-to-paint book. It's a how-to-see book ... specifically, how to tune in to nature's glorious subtleties of light and color. Forget complex theories. "Full-Color Seeing" is based on direct observation. It's about overcoming preconceptions and ...more

Make Your Mark with Confident, Dramatic Strokes Imagine painting with the virtuosity of the masters. With Bold Strokes, you can learn how, step by step. Beloved artist and teacher Mark Christopher Weber takes this seemingly complex manner of painting and breaks it down into simple, manageable steps that you can ...more

Since 1983, Bob Ross has been television's favorite artist. His Joy of Painting show captures higher ratings than any other art program in history, year after year. Bob's quick painting style and easy, encouraging manner reach millions of viewers around the world each day. His third book -- New Joy ...more

Mastering Color takes artists beyond the color wheel for a deeper understanding of the emotional and practical uses of their palettes. It features inventive, yet easy-to-understand, concepts and techniques that apply to every subject, medium, and painting level, with: -An in-depth section on the properties of color, including color density, ...more

For more than a thousand years, Eastern Christians have used their hands and hearts to create icons, proclaiming God's reality in a visible-and breathtakingly beautiful-way. This ancient art is enjoying a renewed interest in the West, as people of faith create icons and use them to meditate on mysteries for ...more

This is a comprehensive oil book for beginners and intermediate oil painters with nine full landscape demos covering value, equipment, work habits, seeing, drawing, colour and composition. It advocates a light-on-the-feet approach that gives artists flexibility to improvise according to the needs of the subject and conditions of the moment. ...more