How to Paint Made Easy: Watercolours, Oils, Acrylics & Digital

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Painting can be fun, relaxing and rewarding. This wonderful new book, packed with case studies and examples, will show you how to think about your subject, what materials to use, how to layer paint and construct a great piece of art, in watercolours, oils, acrylics or digitally on a computer. Painting can be fun, relaxing and rewarding. This wonderful new book, packed with case studies and examples, will show you how to think about your subject, what materials to use, how to layer paint and construct a great piece of art, in watercolours, oils, acrylics or digitally on a computer. How to Paint Made Easy brings the tactile world around us into your hands. Painting is about responding to the world around you, engaging with light, and the shapes, feeling the moment as well as the placing lines of colour on a canvas. This book will show you many different ways of painting, with a variety of methods and materials you can try, to see which works best for you. AUTHOR: Flame Tree Studio has created of hundreds of high quality, crafted illustrated books, calendars and journals, with an emphasis on visual exploration in the arts and in music. From Manga, to Anatomy, Guitar Chords to How to Play Piano, Flame Tree Studio covers a huge range of subjects. 250 illustrations

David Cousens (introductory text, digital painting) is an award-winning illustrator, whose stylized world of illustration is dynamic, cinematic, often cheeky and positively filled with colour. David has written books teaching digital art and provided illustrations for advertising, branding, concept art, exhibitions, education, publishing, video games and television. Sharmaine Kwan (introductory text, traditional painting) is an artist from Hong Kong. She works in a range of areas, including painting, illustration, video and design. She has received many awards from international art competitions and her work has been shown in over 30 exhibitions worldwide. Tom Hovey (foreword) has applied his his unique style across a broad spectrum of genres, but he is best known for his acclaimed food illustration work, having produced the illustrated graphics for BBC One's 'The Great British Bake Off' since its inception in 2010.