Charlie Russell Roundup (PB): Essays on America's Favorite Cowboy Artist

Hazel Soan

Collins Gem 10-Minute Watercolours: Techniques & Tips for Quick Watercolours

Designed for beginner and expert painters alike, this helpful handbook provides information on using color and maintaining spontaneity while painting with watercolors. All the techniques essential for successful paintings are covered, and advice on brush strokes, color selection, and tips on perspective are provided. Helpful chapters on painting a wide range of subjects--including people, landscapes, seascapes, buildings, gardens, flowers, and still life subjects--are also included.

Lawrence Zeegen

Complete Digital Illustration: A Master Class in Image-Making

Complete Digital Illustration is an informative and practical guide to this in-demand area of design. Alongside step-by step tutorials, top image-makers from around the world provide real and practical advice on setting up a studio, creating a killer portfolio, and winning commissions. The work featured in the book reflects the wide and exciting range of image-making practice that thrives today, from music and fashion to character and toy design. The book reveals the secrets of the industry's most successful creatives who transfer traditional illustrative skills into digital dimensions, producing the highest quality, most commercially successful animation, three-dimensional, and vector-based illustration. This book offers a master class for students and professional designers and illustrators who want to take their work beyond the constraints of two-dimensions and gain greater commercial success. An inspirational, must-have guide, Complete Digital Illustration is also of real value for professional image-makers.

Sharon Finmark, Trevor Waugh, Alwyn Crawshaw

Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner: Great Value with More Than 70 Step-By-Step Exercises

This popular book provides all the information you need to get started in watercolour painting. Full of clear, simple advice and more than 70 step-by-step demonstrations, Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner will teach even the least confident of beginners the skills and techniques needed to start painting. In this easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide, three professional artists explain all the basic watercolour techniques. Top TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw demonstrates the basic techniques including brushstrokes, colour mixing and depicting distance and foreground to get you started in watercolour. Lecturer and Artist Sharon Finmark explains how you can paint realistic figures, covering scale and proportion, mixing convincing skin colours and portraying movement and light effectively. Artist and teacher Trevor Waugh demonstrates techniques for painting animals - domestic, farmyard and wild. Starting with simple animal shapes, Trevor takes you through the rudiments of 3D shapes, tone and colour and the tricks of using foreshortening in your work.