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The Everything Art Handbook

Author Walter Foster Creative Team
Release Date: 2016/09/01
ISBN: 9781633221727
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Book Description

The Everything Art Handbook is a comprehensive guide to more than 100 techniques and mediums, like pastel, watercolor, acrylic, oil, calligraphy, mixed media, color, and composition.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. GETTING STARTED
    1. Setting Up a Studio
    2. Finding Inspiration
  3. SECTION 1: DRAWING
    1. Surfaces & Supports
    2. Graphite
    3. Charcoal
    4. Conté Crayon
    5. Colored Pencil
    6. Pastel
    7. Oil Pastel
    8. Pen & Ink
    9. Hand Lettering
  4. SECTION 2: FUNDAMENTALS
    1. Value & Light
    2. Proportion & Size
    3. Drawing Ellipses
    4. Perspective
    5. Composition
  5. SECTION 3: PAINTING
    1. Surfaces & Supports
    2. Brushes
    3. Palette & Painting Knives
    4. Mixing Palettes
    5. Acrylic
    6. Oil
    7. Watercolor
  6. SECTION 4: COLOR BASICS
    1. Color
    2. Complementary Colors
    3. Primaries
    4. Secondaries
    5. Neutrals
  7. SECTION 5: MIXED MEDIA
    1. Tools & Materials
    2. Painting Backgrounds
    3. Borders & Edges
    4. Gesso & Mediums
    5. Stamping
    6. Stenciling
    7. Encaustics
    8. Playing with Paper
    9. Adding Texture
    10. Closing Thoughts