Best Landscape Painting
From beloved author and Hallmark Channel favorite Debbie Macomber, this special adult coloring book features forty-five original illustrations depicting scenes from the Rose Harbor and Blossom Street series. Debbie Macomber , the author of A Girl’s Guide to Moving On, Last One Home, Silver Linings, Love Letters, Mr.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This coloring book depicts a number of scenes from various books, including: “Starting Now”, “The Inn at Rose Harbor”, “Love Letters”, “The World of Debbie Macomber”, Blossom Street Brides”, “Silver Linings”, and “Rose Harbor in Bloom”. Here is an overview of what I found in the book and during my testing of mediums and coloring in this book: 45 Hand-drawn designs depicting scenes from Debbie Macomber books. Printed on one side of white, heavyweight lightly smooth non-perforated page. Quote of Scene is on the preceding page (back of the previous design page. Glue Bound. Designs merge into the binding area – if you cut pages out, you will lose portions of the design. Book opens fairly flat if you “break” the spine. Alcohol-based markers bleed through the page. Given the construction of this book, with the quote on the prior page, I do not plan to remove pages from the book."
"I am a big Debbie Macomber fan and an avid colorist so it took me not two seconds to decide to buy this book."
"The Paper in this coloring book is thick and takes multimedia well."
"I have been coloring as a hobby since high school so I'm no stranger to "adult coloring books" and after a while the same themes get old."
"Most of my books are jungles, gardens and flowers, so I thought I'd try something different."
"Purchased this for my mother who absolutely loves Debbie Macomber books and Hallmark Shows."
"Would love more normal pictures such as homes, gardens, landscaping."
"As everything Debbie Macomber does is full of class, so is this beautiful "coloring book"."
A celebration of America's most beloved and iconic art instructor, Bob Ross.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The calendar has wonderful HD pictures of Bob Ross's paintings."
"My mom is a big Bob Ross fan and watched his program diligently."
"My daughter loves Bob Ross!"
"Awesome calendar!!"
"Love his paintings."
"Who doesn't love Bob Ross."
Happy Little Accidents: The Wit and Wisdom of Bob Ross opens with an introduction and brief biography of Ross, followed by a collection of Ross's greatest quotes and most majestic works of art. Michelle Witte is a lifelong admirer of Bob Ross who wishes she could paint half so well but settles for working with the written word.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I gave it to my 12 year old daughter for Christmas -- she's a huge Bob Ross fan -- and she said it was just right."
"This is so adorable."
"This was a great quality book with vivid colors and amazing Bob Ross quotes."
"Gave it to my husband for Christmas and he loves it too."
"Loved it!"
"LITERALLY the sweetest thing I've read in a while."
"This is the perfect book for my husband for Christmas!"
"Gave as a gift and they could not be happier."
Best Painting
Concise, practical, and inspirational, Landscape Painting focuses on the greatest challenges for the landscape artist, such as: • Simplification and Massing: Learn to reduce nature's complexity by looking beneath the surface of a subject to discover the form's basic masses and shapes.• Color and Light: Explore color theory as it specifically applies to the landscape, and learn the various strategies painters use to capture the illusion of natural light.• Selection and Composition: Learn to select wisely from nature's vast panorama. MITCHELL ALBALA teaches landscape painting at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is a book to be read over and over again and to keep in your library."
"One of my favorite things about this book is that the author uses images of a wide variety of types of art to illustrate the principles he discusses in the text."
"This book was written to be read and absorbed."
"Beautiful visual artist book."
"I am getting much more out of this book than the said bible of landscape painting :"Carlson's guide to landscape painting" ."
"Of all the books I own on painting, studio or plein air, this one is head and shoulders above them all."
"I started painting about a year and a half ago."
"The chapters on value, simplification and massing, site selection, composition, light and color, abstracting nature, and style/inspiration/and lifelong learning will help you deepen your photography skills."
Best Still Life Painting
This collection of Walter Foster's bestselling Color Mixing Recipes books, including Color Mixing Recipes for Oil and Acrylic , Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits , Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor , and the most recent addition, Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes . STEP THREE Use the Color Mixing Grid to measure each paint color.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Love this for it's collection of various color schemes, landscape colors etc."
"this was a great value...like 3 books in one."
"Good product."
"Amazing."
"excellent color reference for mixing."
"I have only skimmed through this great little manual thus far but know I will refer to it over and over again to save myself the time and effort experimenting to find the exact shade I want!!"
"While there are a lot of good mixing recipes for watercolor in this book, the list of component colors is quite extensive .....and expensive to acquire."
Best Art Calendars
Thomas Kinkade: The Disney Dreams Collection 2018 Wall Calendar brings to life classic Disney characters set within traditional Kinkade images. Thomas Kinkade, the celebrated Painter of Light, is the most widely collected artist in the world.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is one of the prettiest calendars around."
"I LOVE this calendar!"
"Can't wait to turn the calendar month every year."
"Totally obsessed with this calendar!"
"As always the Kinkaid calendar is a HIT."
"Mickey Mouse is my all time favorite and add Thomas Kinkade painting to it and in my opinion you have a masterpiece each month!"
"My mother-in law loved it!"
"Perfect."
Best Oil Painting
This volume, which follows Skira Rizzoli’s luminous California Light: A Century of Landscapes , presents more of the club’s distinctive and lush plein air painting, an impressionistic style in which painters work outdoors in order to capture the ephemeral moment when the natural lighting of a landscape elevates an already beautiful scene into something sublime. Jean Stern is the executive director of the Irvine Museum and coauthored California Light .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is a compendium of modern/contemporary landscape painting (mostly) with an emphasis on the pretty and the beautiful."
"This is a beautiful book celebrating the artististic history of the California coast."
"The beauty of California landscape through the eyes of its artists."
Best Watercolor Painting
This special 10th-anniversary collection combines two of the best-loved North Light watercolor guides available: The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook and The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook: Landscapes . Gorden MacKenzie is the author of North Light's bestselling watercolour book, The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"*NOTE* HALF OF THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE AS THE SEPARATE BOOK TITLED "The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook - Landscapes" which at the time of this purchase was available for $15, while this book has double the content and a lot of great example art for only $20."
"I wrote this review to make note that this book ALSO INCLUDES: The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook - Landscapes by the same author. Half-way through the book you will come across the latter, exactly the same book that is sold separately."
"I carry this book with me all the time and Enjoy it very much.... very informative A++++."
"Lovely book, good information."
"Another good guide to technique."
"This book is huge for the cost."
"Very instructionual for beginner and pro."
"I've been checking out the outeated version of this great book from my library and am thrilled I now have the latest edition."
Best Acrylic Painting
The book is ideal for anyone coming to acrylics for the first time, or keen to improve their skills, and who is sometimes daunted by the thought of filling a large empty canvas or blank piece of board. After an introductory chapter on tools, materials, and basic techniques, subsequent chapters present exercises to familiarize the reader with acrylics, show how to represent space realistically, how to construct abstract compositions, and how to render form and surfaces.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is my New Year's resolution to get back into painting and I thought this book would be the book to make this project a reality."
"This book really explains painting techniques like complex scenes, varying brush strokes, negative space, rendering multiple planes, and reflections on metal just to name a few. They helped me purchase the right brushes and paint colors so that I can gather everything I need for each project."
"I love the bite-size projects in this book."
"I was looking for a book I could do QUICK paintings that don't require a lot of thought process and time on my days that I work. For a beginner (which I'm Not) but still easy quick paintings, as you go, the paintings get a little more detailed and takes a little longer to complete. The book *very basic.... * My painting I added more.....that comes with practice."
"I love this book for simples easy painting ideas."
"i really like how this book is designed."
"I am an artist and I usually paint abstracts but it was refreshing to go back to basics and do these exercises because after a long time of doing a certain abstract style you can lose some of the other basic important skills that this book will help with."
"Some of the directions are a bit vague and I would like to see how he would mix the colors he asks for from the primary colors plus black and white."
Best Portrait Painting
Growing out of President Bush’s own outreach and the ongoing work of the George W. Bush Institute's Military Service Initiative, Portraits of Courage brings together sixty-six full-color portraits and a four-panel mural painted by President Bush of members of the United States military who have served our nation with honor since 9/11—and whom he has come to know personally. President Bush will donate his net author proceeds from PORTRAITS OF COURAGE to the George W. Bush Presidential Center, a non-profit organization whose Military Service Initiative works to ensure that post-9/11 veterans and their families make successful transitions to civilian life with a focus on gaining meaningful employment and overcoming the invisible wounds of war. It’s also a tale of life’s capacity to surprise, its ability to hand up new and unexpected lives not only to these veterans but also to their constitutional commander.” -Seth Lipsky, New York Post. After staring at the haunting close-up portraits of wounded warriors and reading the searing accounts of their suffering, I’m beginning to understand why this beautifully published book went to No. “Most of [the portraits] show the head and face full size, seemingly bursting out of the frame with genuine presence and considerable expressive energy . “[It’s] impossible to look at these 98 extraordinary images without thinking deeply about the artist who made them: A leader who sent troops off to the battlefield, and who, so many years later, spends his days channeling the damaged but determined warriors who came home .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I'm an artist and a Liberal."
"So while I don't want to cross the line into the contentious, I have to be perfectly honest and say I never would have expected myself purchasing one of President Bush's books. But I watched an interview with him from Jimmy Kimmel's show while he was promoting this book, and when he mentioned that all the proceeds to to supporting causes for veterans, I said “I'm in”. I read a piece a couple years back by some artists and critics who weren't very flattering in their assessments, so I imagine he's already been exposed to some of that. I took a drawing class in college and got a B on a project...the professor's only reason was she hated my subject matter, thought it wasn't mature enough, the thrust of her criticism was not about my technique."
"The most beautifully portrayed emotionally moving book I have ever read."
"The love and honor is expressed in every brush stroke of the portraits."
"The president took on art (painting) after leaving the office, without any previous art background, but his desire to paint lead to this book; Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors. The title of the book is kind of self-explanatory, it deals with the courageous men and women who served in the military. It will make a great coffee table book and something special to keep in anyone's personal library. Lastly, the president did not just paint these men and women, but he has met with most of them personally multiple of times."
"These portraits seemed crude to me at first glance, but once I read each story and looked a bit longer at each portrait, I could see that the president managed to capture each person's character in the eyes or mouth, or some other aspect of that individual's personality."
"I was very Impressed and moved by President George W. Bush's paintings and the stories shared by the wounded Vets."
"Amazing!!!"