Figure Painting Step by Step
 A good start.: This book is good for beginners in oil figure painting. It is thorough and instructional. As you may see in the preview pages, it covers materials and basic techniques in the rendition of female figures in oil. It is also well-written, [... more]
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The Oxford History of Western Art
Wonderful images, but a shame about the writing: I have the highest regard for Kemp and a number of the contributors to this volume; this is especially due to the fact that I was once a student of his, and the source of much of my excitement derives [... more]
CDN$49.95
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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Fantastic Full Page Reproductions!: This book is filled with full page reproductions of Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema's paintings. It also has an interesting bio with pictures of his home, studio, and himself. I've been looking everywhere for a great book on [... more]
CDN$26.04
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The Natural Way to Paint: Rendering the Figure in ...
excellent course in drawing people: This book begins with a couple exercises intended to improve your ability at drawing people with pencil. All of these are ones I've utilized before in college art classes. These are followed by several exercises [... more]
CDN$21.95
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WWII Dioramas
Just a Mediocre Modelling Manual: I have read Jerry Scutts' "Advanced Military Vehicle Modelling" in this Osprey series and that one only deserves 1 star. This book "WWII Dioramas" is an improvement but not quite up to standard yet. [... more]
CDN$21.00
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Acrylic Landscape Painting Techniques
A good reference book on acrylics landscape painting.: In painting, I am an experimentalist. What it translates into is that I inadvertently keep my checking account on a diet plan! (Hope you get my joke!) Although being a die-hard oil painter (en plein [... more]
CDN$32.06
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Manet/Velazquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
From Amazon.com: After an exhausting trip to Madrid to see paintings by Diego Velásquez, Édouard Manet declared in a letter that the seventeenth-century master was "the greatest artist," He was also the greatest influence on Manet, [... more]
CDN$75.25
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Watercolor
Unveils a Fantastic World of Possibilities in Watercolor!!!: If my experience is typical, then most beginners watercolor havent the slightest idea what an amazing range of visual expression is possible with watercolor...even with a novice's palette of [... more]
CDN$32.95
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The Figure in Watercolor: Simple, Fast and Focused
Great book, but light in the "how to" department...: One problem I find with watercolor instruction books about painting the human figure is that so few of them are in a style I actually like. Charles Reid has a few, of course, and there are [... more]
CDN$21.95
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Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan
Author: Gregory Levine Author: Yukio Lippit Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 757.09520902 EAN: 9780300119640 Edition: 1 ISBN: 030011964X Number Of Pages: 222 Publication Date: 2007-05-28 [... more]
CDN$65.22
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F.A.Q. Frequently Asked Questions about Figure Painting ...
Author: Andrea Miniature Editors Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 745 EAN: 9788496527911 ISBN: 8496527913 Number Of Pages: 152 Publication Date: 2007-02-25 [... more]
CDN$69.95
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Painting People: Figure Painting Today
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 708 EAN: 9781933045382 ISBN: 1933045388 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: 2006-09 [... more]
CDN$45.15
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