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Margaret Aycock is an accomplished artist and experienced oil
painting teacher. While her paintings often reflect the landscape
in and around her home in Oklahoma, for this book, she travels to
the French countryside, where pioneers of the Impressionist
movement once found their inspiration. She too, found inspiration
for her painterly landscapes in the acres of wild poppies, olive
orchards, and vineyards that dotted the land around the abbey where
she stayed. In this book Margaret Aycock demonstrates the complete
oil painting process from field to studio with easy to understand
instructions and practical tips and tricks. Students at all levels
will benefit from step by step written instructions and full color
photo examples. Readers will learn how to structure a pleasing
composition, create a focal point, mix color, make, and use
painting tools. She will illustrate how to hold a brush to achieve
interesting effects, and how to use the thick over thin layering
process to create a painterly style landscape. Beginners and
accomplished artists will also benefit from the "homework" section
at the back of the book. Pack your bags and enjoy the oil painting
journey.
A highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish
painter. The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was 44
years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she
had been trained. While her naturalistic landscapes and botanicals
were shown during her lifetime, her body of radical, abstract works
never received the same attention. Today, it is widely accepted
that af Klint produced the earliest abstract paintings by a trained
European artist. But this is only part of her story. Not only was
she a successful woman artist, but she was also an avowed
clairvoyant and mystic. Like many of the artists at the turn of the
twentieth century who developed some version of abstract painting,
af Klint studied Theosophy, which holds that science, art, and
religion are all reflections of an underlying life-form that can be
harnessed through meditation, study, and experimentation. Well
before Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich declared themselves the
inventors of abstraction, af Klint was working in a
non-representational mode, producing a powerful visual language
that continues to speak to audiences today. The exhibition of her
work in 2018 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City attracted
more than 600,000 visitors, making it the most-attended show in the
history of the museum/institution. Despite her enormous popularity,
there has not yet been a biography of af Klint-until now. Inspired
by her first encounter with the artist's work in 2008, Julia Voss
set out to learn Swedish and research af Klint's life-not only who
the artist was but what drove and inspired her. The result is a
fascinating biography of an artist who is as great as she is
enigmatic.
Combat stress and anxiety and release your own inner creative with
this beautiful mindful watercolour book. In this simple and vibrant
guide, hugely popular Instagram muse @TerryRunyan explores the art
of watercolour through the lens of mindfulness, presenting
activities and projects which you can paint along with as you allow
your creative side to flourish. This watercolour guide is easy and
accessible for beginners, as Runyan gently delves into the basics
of the artform, starting with simple techniques which you can
follow along with, as well as presenting some fun projects ideas
for painters to explore. Alongside beautiful examples of the
techniques and styles explored in the book, Runyan also encourages
readers to practice mindfulness as they paint, and explores the
ways in which art can be used to help improve mental health.
Exploring the idea of 'perfectly imperfect watercolours', Runyan
places emphasis on self-expression and allowing yourself to make
mistakes. Painting Happiness also includes fun projects for readers
to try at home, including: Turning blobs into birds Creating wild
hairstyles Experimenting with different prompts to paint at least
one thing a day From technical skills and notes on materials to
insight into the creative process, this book has everything you
need to start flourishing in watercolour.
Grab your practice book, paint brushes, and discover the beautiful
art of watercolor - no experience required! The ultimate beginner's
guide, Watercolor Success in Four Steps will teach you how to
perfectly paint 150 objects, from fruits and flowers to animals,
household items, and more! Understand the basics of watercolor with
tried-and-true techniques and create beautiful watercolor paintings
in just four simple steps. Each project offers a sample selection
of colors to get you started, followed by approachable,
step-by-step painting instructions to complete each design. Once
you've accomplished each project, you'll be equipped with all the
skills and techniques you need to design and create your own
watercolor works of art!
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Great Women Painters
(Hardcover)
Phaidon Editors; Introduction by Alison M. Gingeras
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A sumptuous survey of over 300 women painters and their work
spanning almost five centuries Great Women Painters is a
groundbreaking book that reveals a richer and more varied telling
of the story of painting. Featuring more than 300 artists from
around the world, it includes both well-known women painters from
history and today's most exciting rising stars. Covering nearly 500
years of skill and innovation, this survey continues Phaidon's
celebrated The Art Book series and reveals and champions a more
diverse history of art, showcasing recently discovered and newly
appreciated work and artists throughout its more than 300 pages and
images. Artists featured include: Hilma af Klint, Eileen Agar,
Sofonisba Anguissola, Cecily Brown, Leonora Carrington, Mary
Cassatt, Elaine de Kooning, Marlene Dumas, Nicole Eisenman, Jadé
Fadojutimi, Helen Frankenthaler, Artemisia Gentileschi, Maggi
Hambling, Carmen Herrera, Gwen John, Frida Kahlo, Tamara de
Lempicka, Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Plautilla Nelli,
Georgia O'Keeffe, Paula Rego, Bridget Riley, Jenny Saville, Dana
Schutz, Lee Krasner, Yayoi Kusama
Among the few women artists who have transcended art history, none
had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo
(1907-1954). Her unmistakable face, depicted in over fifty
extraordinary self-portraits, has been admired by generations;
along with hundreds of photographs taken by notable artists such as
Edward Weston, Manuel and Lola Alvarez Bravo, Nickolas Muray, and
Martin Munkacsi, they made Frida Kahlo an iconic image of 20th
century art. After an accident in her early youth, Frida became a
painter of her own free will. Her marriage to Diego Rivera in 1929
placed her at the forefront of an artistic scene not only in the
cultural Renaissance of Mexico, but also in the United States. Her
work garnered praise from the poet Andre Breton, who added the
Mexican painter to the ranks of international surrealism and
exhibited her work in Paris in 1939 to the admiration of Picasso,
Kandinsky, and Duchamp. We access the intimacy of Frida's
affections and passions through a selection of drawings, pages from
her personal diary, letters, and an extensive illustrated biography
featuring photos of Frida, Diego, and the Casa Azul, Frida's home
and the center of her universe. This large-format XXL book allows
readers to admire Frida Kahlo's paintings like never before,
including unprecedented detail shots and famous photographs. It
presents pieces in private collections and reproduces works that
were previously lost or have not been exhibited for more than 80
years, forming the most extensive study of Kahlo's work and life to
date.
The five landscape series of 2002 have been made in quantities of
eighty to one hundred panels, each set generally taking three weeks
to complete. The subjects were drawn from personal journeys in the
past five years. The panels are worked on flat, painting twenty at
a time in fifteen minute bursts. They are laid out on an old framed
6' x 3' piece which is also serves as a container for the pool of
colour washed over the textured surface. Two inch square wooden
cubes are used to stack the panels in small towers to dry out.
Various factors steer the series' development: there is an initial
colour plan; I think about the loadbearing pressures on a place,
tracks and crossing points, airflow, water, spaces and intervals,
the nature of settlement in the land. For a city: light and shadows
on buildings, streets, side alleys and hidden courtyards, people,
stores, traffic, noise, incidents and interruptions. I may use
rough handling of the medium to make it work, paint responds to
that. The panels form a continuing conversation with the colour
plan, titles are assigned later to photographs of the line of
production. The identity of a place is achieved not by literal
description but as an equivalent found by coincidence in the
passage of an abstract process. Philip James, Cv/Visual Arts
Research, July '02
Learn to express yourself through color while painting on location
with the in-depth tips and techniques of Working with Color, the
fifth volume in the Urban Sketching Handbook series. Expert
watercolorist, illustrator, instructor, and co-founder of Urban
Sketchers Montreal Shari Blaukopf shares her essential color tips
about color-water ratio, achieving bold color, avoiding muddy
washes, painting in layers, and using wet-in-wet techniques. This
essential handbook covers: supplies and materials sample color
palettes color mixing using limited palettes monochrome sketches
the power of complementary colors using evocative, expressive color
With a focus on using watercolor with greater confidence and
knowledge, the book also delves into pencil and ink and
watersoluble pencils. The instructional text is enhanced with
stunning watercolor illustrations by the author and other expert
urban sketchers from beautiful locations around the globe. The
illustrations include examples of color swatches showing value;
mixing; illustrations of complementary, analogous, and neutral
color schemes; and sample galleries. Working with Color is an
indispensable guide for on-location artists looking to expand and
strengthen their expressive use of color.
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