Product Description: Art students and amateur painters alike will find advice and instruction in Barron's popular Pocket Art Guides series. Each title focuses on a specific aspect of painting or drawing, and includes tips that even experienced professionals will find helpful...read more

Product Description: The artistic representation of the human body has fascinated and inspired millions throughout the centuries; it is also one of the most difficult forms for artist to recreate. Movement, proportion, expression, as well as the details of anatomy, leave many artists frustrated...read more

Product Description: The newest title in Barron's Pocket Art Guides series demonstrates various ways to render different forms and shapes when working with color media, including oils, watercolors, acrylics, inks, pastels, and colored pencils. Exercises offer students practice in rendering basic geometric shapes, such as cubes and cylinders...read more

Product Description: Accessories are part of the great fashion family of various pieces and adornments that complete a man's, woman's, or child s outfit. From shoes and hats to purses, each one fulfills a specific function that can be ornamental, protective, or functional in nature, but they are all considered finishing touches for the overall look...read more

Product Description: Painting Recipes Books are designed for mid-level art students and amateur painters who are looking to perfect their style by trying new interpretive forms and experimenting with sophisticated techniques they have never tried before...read more

Product Description: From simple line drawings to collage, painting, and computer graphics, Drawing for Fashion Designers is the most complete guide to depicting the clothed human figure. Students of fashion will appreciate the technical information and step-by-step instruction on virtually all drawing techniques—from mastering the intricate movements of the body to bringing fabric texture and pattern to life on the page...read more

Product Description: Books in the popular Beginner's Art Guides series instruct in the fundamentals of drawing and painting, focusing on projects especially designed for beginning students to master. Projects are presented in order of difficulty and are supplemented with practical suggestions, ideas for color experiments, and techniques for creating special effects...read more

Product Description: Books in the popular Beginner Art Guides series instruct in the fundamentals of drawing and painting, focusing on projects especially designed for beginning students to master. Projects are presented in order of difficulty and are supplemented with practical suggestions, ideas for color experiments, and techniques for creating special effects...read more

Product Description: Each book in Barron's Drawing Academy series takes beginning students through a detailed training course in one specific aspect of drawing. Every title presents a set of "Learning by Doing" lessons, progressively arranged from easy to more difficult...read more

Product Description: This title enlightens beginning students on the variety of available drawing media, as well as specific paper textures used in drawing. It proceeds with instruction on rendering basic shapes-spheres, cylinders, cones, cubes, and the like—and incorporating these shapes into still lifes, landscapes, and other subjects for illustration...read more