Offers creative ideas for all kinds of art projects and teaches about brushes, papers, special effects, and using different paints, pastels, inks, crayons, and other media.

"Clear and easy to understand, award-winning watercolor artist and author Shuang Li presents everything you need to know about painting watercolor outdoors. As a highly experienced plein air artist and watercolor instructor, Shuang guides beginning and intermediate watercolor artists through the entire watercolor plein air painting process, from selecting equipment and tools to conquering outdoor challenges and finishing a plein air watercolor. Going...

A great guide for painters who want to experiment with mixed media and make their landscape paintings more adventurous. Popular artist and teacher Soraya French encourages readers to experiment with mixing media and to create more adventurous paintings and broaden their artistic horizons. The media that Soraya uses in this book are acrylics, pastels and collage and she shows how to bring the best out of mixing these media with handy tips, some simple...