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Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Interactive and encouraging, this art book combines detailed instructions with an innovative color wheel on the front, making it perfect for beginners working with watercolors. A spin of the wheel instantly shows what shade would result from mixing two watercolors, allowing painters to determine a color palette before embarking on an activity.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
On April 3, 1945, the advancing American army shells the historic town of Lohenfelde, and the Kaiser-Wilhelm museum. Within the museum's vaults, Heinrich Hoffer is hiding from the bombardment, and trying to keep a priceless Van Gogh from falling into the hands of a rogue Nazi. After the shelling, an American corporal, Neal Parry, finds a beautiful eighteenth-century oil painting in the rubble, and must confront both its beauty, and the morality of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents twelve color reproductions of landscape paintings by such artists as Vincent Van Gogh, M.C. Escher, and Georgia O'Keeffe, with questions to stimulate discussion and background information on each artist and painting.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Treat the book as an in-depth class on this medium. [watercolor] With each lesson, you'll be privy to a new watercolor technique or subject. Readers will move through the book subject by subject, course by course, painting all along the way. By the time you reach the end, you'll have fifty paintings showcasing your steady progress."--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
"Water has always inspired the imagination of painters, but it is a demanding subject. Diverse in its many moods and forms, it tantalizes and challenges artists to capture its elusive qualities."--BOOK JACKET. "This book helps you meet that challenge, demonstrating how to observe water and to translate your observations onto paper. Divided into sections covering Still and Moving Water, it treats every form of water - from shallow puddles to pools,...