Painting Books

1,500 Color Mixing Recipes for Oil, Acrylic & Watercolor is the definitive color-mixing resource for artists. This user-friendly compendium is color coded for quick-and-easy reference and includes two removable color-mixing grids—one for...

In Creative Abstract Watercolor, you'll discover watercolor techniques, tips and tricks to create your own vibrant art, letting the natural watercolor flow to help form your composition and inspire further mixed media embellishment. Author Kate Rebecca...

Watercolor Botanical Garden is an easy-to-follow book that shows how anyone can paint luminous watercolor flowers and botanicals. Featuring colorful step-by-step images, noted artist and instructor Rachel Eskandari shows how to master the...

En Plein Air: Acrylic: Expert techniques and simple step-by-step projects for creating dynamic landscapes in the open air with acrylic introduces beginning artists and fine-art lovers alike to the core concepts of painting on location. This...

Color Collective's Palette Perfect: Color Combinations Inspired by Fashion, Art and Style is aimed to fashion students and designers. It is both a practical guide and an inspirational book that proposes a reflection on the universe of...

Japanese Ink Painting: Lessons in Suiboku Technique teaches beginners the fundamental techniques of suiboku, a form of Japanese ink painting. Suiboku is considered to be a type of Japanese painting known as sumi-e. It adds water to emphasize the shading...