The Search Press Guide to Painting Techniques - Couverture souple

Tate, Elizabeth; Harrison, Hazel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844487148 ISBN 13 : 9781844487141

Editeur : Search Press Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

When you learn to paint, do you start with the creative process or the technical details? Go for expressive chaos or risk getting bogged down in detail?

With a technical guide as good as this, you don't have to make that decision, because this book is laid out in a way that will teach you the building blocks of how-to at the same time as helping you with the what-to. After a brief introduction to Preparing to Paint that deals with surfaces, you're quickly into Making a Start and working alla prima - completing a painting in one go - where there's little room for the fiddling that can bedevil creativity.

After these basic techniques, the book moves through Ways of Working and Special Techniques where further ideas are introduced, including brushwork, impasto, wet-in-wet, spattering and sgraffito.

The book works well both as a course to be followed from start to finish and as a reference tool that you can drop into if you require something specific. In fact, it's so well thought-out that it can actually be both things at the same time.

Previously published as The Encyclopaedia of Painting Techniques, this has been considerably re-worked and covers watercolour, acrylic, oil and pastel.

Book: Search Press. Paperback. 208 pages. Colour throughout

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This book offers a unique combination of reference material and practical guidance for the painter in any media. It is divided into two parts: the first is a directory of all major painting techniques, and gives examples of their use, and of the particular media appropriate to them. The second section shows the applications of these techniques to a wide range of popular painting subjects. With step-by-step demonstrations and detailed close-up photographs on how to do everything from frottage to scumbling, to blending, backruns and masking out, this is an invaluable and inspiring sourcebook for painters of all abilities and media.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Elizabeth Tate is a practising painter, writer and editor. She first studied art history at Sheffield Polytechnic and then spent several years painting in Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland and Germany. She has taught practical art and has worked as an author and editor on a number of art education magazines. Hazel Harrison is a practising artist who works in all paint media. She studied painting at the Guildford School of Art and the Royal Academy of Painting in London. Hazel divides her time between painting and writing and editing art instruction books.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Search Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1844487148
• ISBN 13: 9781844487141
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208