Painting Books


The Yellow House Best Price: $8.71	The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape (Studies in History of Art & Architecture) Best Price: $202.24 Customers, be aware that there are two editions of this book, with different number of pages,...	Painting Indiana: Portraits of Indiana's 92 Counties Best Price: $171.56 "Painting Indiana" is an awesome collection of art.A must for anyone...	Animals and Wildlife (Sketch and Paint) (Sketch & paint) Best Price: $32.55 Hardback book with dust jacket. Jean Parry-Williams and Martin Knowelden, authors. Total 128...	Translating Nature into Art: Holbein, the Reformation, and Renaissance Rhetoric Best Price: $80.95 Hans Holbein the Younger is best known for his work in Henry VIII's England, where he...



Starting to Paint with Acrylics (How to Do it) Best Price: $45.79	Choosing and Mixing Colours for Painting This is a practical guide to understanding how colours behave and how to use them in painting....	Life Drawing Provides advice on aspects of life drawing such as stance, proportion, perspective and space,...	Architectural Drawing: Masterclass Covering various media such as pen, pencil, ink and watercolour, this book introduces the...	Oil Painting: Pure and Simple Best Price: $526.43 Now in paperback, this work aims to introduce oil techniques simply and easily to the amateur...



The Art of Arts: Rediscovering Painting Best Price: $41.03 I have recommended this book to several people and now it is available in paperback! It...	Cc: Fine Art Ipg 3rd Ed. (Fine Art: Identification and Price Guide) Best Price: $104.56 This book goes with me everywhere. Many non-specialty auctions have a few paintings worthy of...	A Field Guide to Aboriginal Rock Engravings: with Special Reference to Those Around Sydney (Sydney University Press Publication) This generously illustrated book serves as a practical guide to the sites and anthropological...	Landscape Techniques	Great Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings: 24 Cards From The Art Institute of Chicago Collection (Card Books) Best Price: $64.99 We had recently went to the Chicago Art Institute and this is a wonderful keepsake

Degas Famous art critic?s lively, intimate, highly perceptive study, filled fascinating anecdotes. 40...	Painting Flowers in Watercolour Best Price: $33.17 Simmons shows how the vibrancy and translucence of watercolours make it an ideal medium to...	Acrylic Watercolor Painting (Dover Art Instruction) Best Price: $3.99 I have owned this book for a few years now. I finally decided to write a review because I have...	A Treatise on Painting (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) Best Price: $1.95 This book contains an collection of writings by Leonardo da Vinci. It functions as a...	120 Portrait Paintings (Dover Electronic Clip Art) (CD-ROM and Book) Best Price: $10.65 Take a visual stroll through an arresting collection of 120 famous portraits that capture the...

Corot: the Poetry of Landscape Pb (New Horizons) Corot has been considered many things: a precursor of Impressionism, with his sophisticated...	Picasso: The Blue and Rose Periods (Crown Art Library) Another title from The Crown Art Library , the most useful monographs available on a wide range...	Piero della Francesca, Poet of Form Best Price: $168.80	Perfect Little Cats Best Price: $0.76 This is a book for a person who likes cats. I mean, REALLY likes cats. A person who likes cats...	Pocket Painters: Cezanne Best Price: $4.68 Each of the affordable, trim, pocket-size volumes in the Pocket Painters series showcases a...

Tamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence Best Price: $118.99 Mujer de altos vuelos, Tamara de Lempicka, decidió pasar sus últimos...	Landscapes of Memory: Turner as Illustrator to Scott Best Price: $39.00 Hard cover with dust jacket. Works by great 19th century English artist J. M. W. Turner.	Skies, Mountains and Lakes (Winsor & Newton/Landscape) Best Price: $397.38	Step by Step Art School: Watercolour A guide to painting in watercolour.	Oils (Step By Step Art School Series) Best Price: $14.76 I began painting with the guide of this book. It's really a good help when you don't...

Renoir (Masters of Art)	Degas.	Henri Mattisse - a Retrospective Lavishly produced in oversize format, here is the complete illustrated catalogue of a landmark...	Degas: Pastels, Oil Sketches, Drawings	Sowa's Ark, An Enchanted Bestiary - 1996 publication After having sought this book for quite some time, I am far from let down by the wonderful...

Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonne 1931-1933 Paul Klee is one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. For the nine volumes...	Anselm Kifer This monograph uses a thematic and chronologial approach to explore the many facets of Anselm...	Manet (World of Art) Best Price: $0.61 This book is very brief -- about two hundred pages, but only about one-third of that is text --...	British Landscape, 1920-1950: With 150 Illustrations, 50 in Color Best Price: $194.98	The Book of Kells Painting Book Best Price: $6.69 Very nice. We recently viewed the original Book of Kells in Ireland, and these pictures are a...

The Lindisfarne Painting Book Best Price: $6.04 The Lindisfarne Gospels is an eighth-century masterpiece of Celtic illumination. After careful...	Mysterious Fayum Portraits The Fayum portraits were created by the people of a flourishing district of Roman Egypt during...	Impressionist Gardens Best Price: $17.47 Clare Willsdons new book explores the rich history and striking evolution of Impressionist...	Degas (New Horizons) Best Price: $7.76 "I would like to be famous and unknown" said Edgar Degas. His sublime paintings of...	Bonnard (New Horizons) Best Price: $15.69 Pierre Bonnard, painter, illustrator, printmaker and decorator, has come to be regarded as one...

Van Gogh the Passionate Eye (New Horizons) Best Price: $4.99 An account of Vincent Van Gogh, together with a selection of his works.	Gauguin the Quest for Paradise (New Horizons) Best Price: $10.89 The works of Gaugin, and the story of his bohemian exploits.	Francis Bacon (New Horizons) Best Price: $7.48 An excellent survey of the life and career of Francis Bacon. Many full color illustrations and...	Leonardo (Dolphin Art Books) Best Price: $69.00	Jean and Francois Cloet Hb Best Price: $14.59 [Not my review, this is from the Publisher's own website:] Jean Clouet and his son...

Introduction to Oil Painting (DK Art School) This volume is part of a "how-to-paint" series which has been devised by professional...	Mr. Marshal's Flower Book Best Price: $5.08 I was referred to this book by a friend who has gotten into painting who knew I also love...	Millais Best Price: $24.61 John Everett Millais (1829-1896) was one of the most celebrated figures of Victorian art. As a...	Fields of Vision: Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States "Landscape imagery," according to Stephen Daniels, "is not merely a reflection...	The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library Best Price: $40.83 Although this is an overview book, there is so much here to recommend it to the artist. I do...

Colour Mixing System for Watercolours: a Practical Guide to Colour Mixing	Flowers in Watercolour: A Step-by-Step Guide From Simple Flower Studies to More Advanced Compostions This fresh and lively approach to painting flowers shows how to capture the beauty and delicacy...	Water: How to See It, How to Paint It Hb This introduction to capturing water in painting covers oils, acrylics, watercolour and pastels,...	Capturing Light in Acrylics Best Price: $25.98 I am an artist and painting teacher working in oils, which I love. But, increasingly, I have...	Dramatize Your Paintings with Tonal Value: 20 Artists Show You How to Make Lights and Darks Work in Your Paintings - In All Mediums (Elements of Painting)

Painting in Acrylics (Studio Vista Beginner's Guides) Best Price: $5.46 Flexible, water-soluble and quick-drying, acrylic paints offer those new to painting the freedom...	Ravished Image: Or How to Ruin Masterpieces by Restoration	Burne-Jones; the life and works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898).	A Brush With Life Best Price: $8.50 Frank Smith is an ordinary man who has led an extraordinary life. This remarkable book presents...	The Art of the Dutch Republic, 1585-1718

Victorian Painting Christopher Wood has done it again. No serious lover of art should be without this book, which...	The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) (2 Volumes) Best Price: $360.79	Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Modern Art--Practices & Debates) Best Price: $17.00 This volume is part of a four-volume series about art and its interpretation in the 19th and...	Thomas Cole: Landscape into History Best Price: $198.91 I found this presentation to be very well put together overall. The numerous reproductions are...	The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable: Text and Plates (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $205.86 John Constable is known for his poetic approach to nature and his use of broken colour. In this...

Colour: National Gallery Pocket Guide (National Gallery London Publications) Best Price: $4.98 It is not always obvious from looking at pictures what kinds of materials may be used by an...	Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting Best Price: $34.49 I was looking for a book on Chinese painting with plenty of illustrations. In the Amazon...	Leonardo da Vinci and the Splendor of Poland: A History of Collecting and Patronage Best Price: $50.23 This manual presents an array of Western European and Polish paintings from Poland's most...	William Merritt Chase: The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Vol. 2: Portraits in Oil Best Price: $50.38 My hands trembled when I first picked up this majestic volume. As a portrait painter myself, I...	John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882; Complete Paintings: Volume IV Best Price: $40.00 for three years since the last published book on John Singer Sargent. I keep finding new things...

Creative Ways With Watercolor Painting. Best Price: $6.25	Great French Paintings Calendar: 1994	Oil Painting Pure and Simple Best Price: $39.95 I picked up this book almost 20 years ago, and I still refer to it for ideas and inspiration. ...	Rembrandt's Eyes	Catalogue of Italian Drawings: Parma Bk.4

Looking at Prints, Drawings and Watercolors. A guide to technical terms.	Mary Cassatt: Oils and Pastels (The Watson-Guptill famous artists series)	The Watercolour Painter's Pocket Palette Moira Clinch details all you need to know on mixing colours. 32 chosen colours are featured in...	Art Deco Painting Best Price: $16.96 I just adore this book, and it never fails to inspire me. This book is of particular...	J.W. Waterhouse Best Price: $79.98 This is the most complete book on Waterhouse I've come across yet. When researching this...

My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic Best Price: $25.98 Before reading this book, I did not think much of Saatchi. After reading this delightful book, I...	The Book of Primroses Devoted entirely to the primrose and polyanthus, this book contains horticultural information,...

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