This practical beginner's guide includes all the inspiration you need to draw and paint a range of fairy habitats and the fairies that live there.
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Watercolours are ideal for creating light, fresh and spontaneous paintings, and this book shows you how to maximise the effects you can achieve.
Barry Herniman helps you to fill your paintings with light and colour, using quick and simple watercolour.
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This comprehensive guide brings together the six books from the successful Art of Drawing series: Drawing Techniques, Drawing Portraits, Drawing the Clothes Figure, Drawing Hands & Feet, Drawing Scenery and Drawing Light & Shade.
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This richly illustrated, highly informative compilation of four of the successful Watercolour Tips & Techniques books explores the versatility and beauty of watercolours in depth.
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The Watercolour Wheel Book will help anyone who wants to paint in watercolour to produce quality art in days. It begins with a look at the equipment you will need to get started and then describes the basic principles of colour mixing and applying colour.
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Roy Lang shows you how to capture the power, majesty and atmosphere of the sea.

Learn how the sea and sky interact in nature, and how to portray their many moods in oils.
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Popular author, Terry Harrison, shows how to paint seas and skies using simple watercolour techniques. Step-by-step photographs and clear explanations show how to achieve the effects needed to paint the various elements of skies and seascapes.
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In this book Paul Bryn Davies shows how to use simple watercolour techniques to create wonderful fairy paintings.
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Beginning with basic watercolour techniques Rebecca Balchin goes on to show how to draw horses, starting from basic shapes. These are developed into unicorns by the addition of particular hooves, manes, and of course horns.
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Using simple to follow step-by-step instructions accompanied by clear and instructive photographs, Elaine Hamer shows you how to draw and paint angels. Learn how to use watercolour and gouache to paint these beautiful ethereal beings.
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In this book Janet Whittle explains her evocative use of colour and the numerous creative techniques she uses for capturing the beauty of flowers in her paintings - wet-in-wet, wet-in-dry, negative painting, masking, lifting out, glazing and more.
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This beautiful book is packed full of ideas and techniques for drawing the human figure, a constant source of inspiration for artists.
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Discover the unique joys of pastel painting with this easy-to-use guide to one of the most versatile and forgiving mediums. More than 100 visual sequences reveal key techniques such as mixing, blending, scumbling, sgraffito, hatching, and feathering.
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A visual guide to over 2000 mixes and glaze effects. This easy-to-use directory explains colour theory and demonstrates a range of mixing techniques.

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Master the art of watercolour painting with this comprehensive and compact take-anywhere guidebook
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Easy and clean to use, water-soluble pencils are portable and infinitely versatile. Wendy Jelbert here gives lively step-by-step demonstrations of flowers, still-life, landscapes and buildings.
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A practical easy-to-follow guide, which shows how to observe and draw light and shade.
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Learn how to paint these magnificent beasts in watercolour with simple to follow step-by-step instructions accompanied by clear and instructive photographs.
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Working from simple pieces to beautiful landscapes step-by-step, Noel opens the door to producing your own oil paintings in less than a day.
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Discover how to create great cartoons in a wide range of styles and media, from comic-book line art to digital manga.
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A complete guide to drawing media, from pencils and charcoal to pastels and coloured inks Learn how to achieve exciting and unusual effects by combining two or more drawing media.
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In this full-colour book, popular author Terry Harrison shows you how to paint flowers and how to use them in larger paintings.
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This compact book explains all the materials, techniques, and different approaches to painting with oils, and includes illustrated step-by-step projects to complete.
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Billy Showell's exquisite and technically brilliant watercolour flower portraits are beautifully presented in this highly informative, lavishly illustrated book.
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Well-known artist Bryan A. Thatcher, who specialises in this popular technique, demonstrates in step-by-step action sequences how to manipulate the flow of colour on wet paper to create beautiful, effortless-looking effects.
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Geoff Kersey shares his mastery of watercolour techniques in this detailed and fascinating guide to painting skies in landscapes.Both beginners to watercolour and experienced painters will benefit from this essential guide to painting skies.
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Terry Harrison takes the mystery out of watercolour painting in this lively and inspiring guide. This book helps you learn how to create beautiful paintings of mountains, valleys and streams using a range of brushes and simple techniques.
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The methods of merging soft luminous washes with the crisp, definite markings of penwork, are made easy with this book. Each stage of the painting process is illustrated using step-by-step photographs and beautiful finished paintings.
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Arnold Lowrey presents a lively, inspirational introduction to acrylics which illustrates the versatility and beauty of this wonderful medium.
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How do you paint an imaginary subject? How can you capture the luminosity and tiny detail of a figure that might fit in the palm of your hand? This book explains the techniques to bring your fairy art to life.
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Expert and renowned artist, David Hyde, provides a practical yet inspirational guide to this most versatile of mediums.
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From rapid sketches to portraits and drawings of groups of people, this inspiring book teaches how to capture the many different forms and characters of clothed figures.
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From azalea to zantedeschia, this unique watercolour artist's guide offers easy-to-follow, plant-specific information on how to paint, in a crisp and natural style, over 50 of the most popular species of flower.
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Michael Sanders introduces this hugely versatile opaque medium and demonstrates how techniques such as wet into wet, wet on dry, masking, sgraffito and spattering can be used to create beautiful paintings.
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Create beautiful trees quickly and easily with Terry Harrison’s unique watercolour techniques.
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It is generally thought that hands and feet are the hardest parts of the body to portray effectively in drawings, paintings and sculptures. Giovanni Civardi demystifies the process of capturing both with this inspirational, easy-to-follow guide.
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In this, the first book in the Oil Painting Tips and Techniques series, Michael Sanders shows how to create beautiful pictures using a range of popular subjects.
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Sally Michel's knowledge and understanding of animals, allied to her versatility as an artist, has enabled her to draw this remarkable and lively collection of pets and to describe her approach in delightfully informative and enthusiastic terms.
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Using step-by-step demonstrations and his own evocative and inspirational pictures, Cheng Yan shows you how to capture the beauty and freshness of this exquisite style of painting.
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A beautifully presented high quality hardback volume which would make a fantastic gift for a budding artist or an improving watercolour painter with step by step demonstrations and practical advice.
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The Japanese use two styles of writing at the same time: kanji - Chinese characters, which are ideograms, i.e. characters which symbolise ideas of things without saying their names, and kana - which are purely phonetic characters.
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A rich source of ideas and inspiration for all craftspeople and artists. The designs can be used as stencil or embroidery patterns, stationery designs, furniture decoration, glass painting guides or whatever your imagination chooses.
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Carole Massey shows how to use acrylics to paint flowers of all kinds, from simple potted plants to a garden arch smothered with roses .
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A rich source of ideas and inspiration for all craftspeople and artists
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A rich source of ideas and inspiration for all craftspeople and artists
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Well-known artist Ray Campbell Smith shows how to capture the freshness and beauty of watercolours and a wonderful range of buildings in his own distinctive style.
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Jane Greenwood shows how easy it is to make a variety of amusing, charming and innovative greetings cards using simple watercolour painting techniques.
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Terry Harrison presents a refreshingly simple guide that is packed with excellent, easy-to-follow demonstrations illustrating how to create stunning paintings.
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Clear, practical and easy-to-follow, this book draws the reader into understanding the principles of perspective using simple techniques, tips and step-by-step demonstrations.
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How do you see a fairy, let alone draw one? This enchanting book shows how you can invoke the fairy spirit and bring to life the nymphs, sprites, and sylphs of this fabled realm.
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Detailed photographic sequences explore pencil, charcoal, pen and technical pen techniques, including shading, building up, blending, hatching, highlighting, stippling and more.
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The glowing transparency and spontaneity of watercolour makes it an ideal medium for exploring the effects of sunlight, shadows, mist, stormy skies and more. Easy techniques for creating realistic effects are demonstrated in a series of stunning examples.
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Paul Hardy shares his love of pastels and his techniques for capturing the beautiful atmospheric and dramatic qualities of light using step-by-step photographs and a wonderful collection of inspirational pictures.
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Beginners are guided through the fundamentals of detailed observation, use of materials and elementary tips whilst more advanced artists will be inspired by sophisticated techniques, superb demonstrations and invaluable advice.
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Beautiful skies, textured woodlands, fields, rivers and soft reflections – these and more are presented by well-known artist Michael Sanders, as he shows how to create beautiful, vibrant landscape paintings.
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Learn how to capture the beauty, luminosity and sheer beauty of watercolours with this easy-to-follow step-by-step guide.
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Trees have inspired artists for generations. This unique watercolour artist’s guide offers easy-to-follow, plant specific information on how to paint a wonderful selection of the most popular species of trees.
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The beauty of watercolour lies in the ease of the techniques and their range of possibilities
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Everything you want to know about painting flowers and plants.
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Everything you need to know about transforming a rough sketch into a painting you can be proud of
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Watercolour is an exciting and versatile medium, and beautiful waterscapes full of light and atmosphere can be created with loose, transparent washes, or by overlaying colours.
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