How To Paint: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners Covering Watercolours, Acrylics, and Oils

by Angela Gair, Ian Sidaway

Beginners who want to master the basics of watercolors, acrylics, and oils will find more than 350 color photos to guide them, along with easy-to-follow instructions. More experienced painters can hone their skills using detailed studies of a range of techniques. Each section offers practical information on materials and equipment, a gallery of professional work to inspire creativity, and projects that cover landscapes, still lifes, people, flowers, animals, and buildings.

Genres: Art

352 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2005

About the author

Angela Gair is a painter and writer. She studied fine art at Sheffield Polytechnic in England and then spent several years painting in Italy, Spain, France and Switzerland. An art teacher as well as a practising artist, she has also contributed to art education magazines and has written several instructional art books.

Reviews

[Joanne Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great step-by-step covering a lot of what one would learn in art school (perspective, color mixing etc.). Also covered different mediums.