Art Instruction
ON COLOUR...
From the author of Becoming Invisible, further exercises in invisibility through Bauhaus color theory
YOU ARE AN ARTIST: ASSIGNMENTS TO SPARK CREATION
Written by Urist Green, Sarah
More than 50 assignments, ideas, and prompts to expand your world and help you make outstanding new things to put into it Curator Sarah Urist Green left her office in the basement of an art museum to travel and visit a diverse range of artists, asking them to share prompts that relate to their own ways of working.
HOW TO BE AN ARTIST
Written by Saltz, Jerry
Irreverent and inspiring advice for awakening your creative potential, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic. Jerry Saltz is one of the most influential-and popular-culture writers working today.
JOY OF BOTANICAL DRAWING: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO DRAWING AND PAINTING FLOWERS, LEAVES, FRUIT, AND MORE
Written by Hollender, Wendy
A gorgeous, easy-to-follow, and inspiring guide to stunningly realistic botanical drawing that covers everything you need to draw our natural world. Achieve amazingly realistic and vibrant botanical illustrations, from flowers so dazzling you feel as if you might be able to smell them, to tomatoes that look as if they've just been picked from the garden.
TURNER'S APPRENTICE: A WATERCOLOR MASTERCLASS
Written by Smibert, Tony
How can a modern painter go about learning the techniques and methods of a long-dead master? Drawing on years of research and practice, Tony Smibert brings us a virtual apprenticeship, sharing his own method and approach that emulates J. M. W. Turner and yet is contemporary, original, and innovative.
CURATING AFTER THE GLOBAL: ROADMAPS FOR THE PRESENT
What it means to be global--or to be local--in the context of artistic, curatorial, and theoretical knowledge and practice.
PICK UP A PEN: DRAW AND DOODLE WITH EVERY KIND OF PEN
Written by Moffatt, Frances
A playful, quirky, doodly exploration of the humble pen, full of practical ways to make amazing art using markers, ink pens, quills and even ballpoints.A cute, quirky practical art book, Pick Up A Pen is a guide to making the most of pens, from creating perfect calligraphic script with pen and ink to making masterpieces with a Sharpie.
WHAT THEY DIDN'T TEACH YOU IN ART SCHOOL: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO SURVIVE AS AN ARTIST
Written by Tilley, Annabel
A career guide for artists, covering everything they need to know about building a successful business after graduatingYou have the artistic talent, but do you know how to make a success of it?
CHARLES BARGUE AND JEAN-LEON GEROME: DRAWING COURSE
Written by Parrish, Graydon
-Two hundred lithographs that comprised a famous late nineteenth-century drawing course -Introduces the work of a hitherto neglected master: Charles Bargue -Of interest to artists, art students, art historians, and lovers and collectors of art The Bargue-Gérôme Drawing Course is a complete reprint of a famous, late nineteenth-century drawing course.
SIDNEY NOLAN: THE ARTIST'S MATERIALS
Written by Dredge, Paula
The newest addition to the Artist's Materials series offers the first technical studyof one of Australia's greatest modern painters.
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