Bold Expressive Painting: Painting Techniques for Still Lifes, Florals and Landscapes in Mixed Media

Bold Expressive Painting: Painting Techniques for Still Lifes, Florals and Landscapes in Mixed Media by Annie O’Brien Gonzales
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1440338604 | 144 pages | EPUB | 71,3 MB

Loosen up and nurture your colorful spontaneous expression!

Bold Expressive Painting offers the fresh approach you’re been looking for. Through step-by-step projects, learn to paint traditional subjects–still lifes, florals and landscapes–in a loose, modern and sometimes whimsical way. Working in acrylic or oil, you will learn the expressive approach to creating personal work that reflect your emotions and passions using techniques such as gesture painting, negative shape painting, and intuitive painting.

In addition to 10 stepped-out projects you’ll also learn:

Methods of handling vibrant color, creating a personal palette and trying out new composition formats

Ways to develop innovative compositions by incorporating personal symbols and imagery

How to breath exciting new life into previous work

Techniques for working with collage, stencils, stamps and monoprinting

Release realism and embrace a colorful and new personal, expressionist style!

Robert Hirsch - Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes

Robert Hirsch – Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes
2008 | ISBN: 0240810139 | English | 300 pages | PDF | 32 MB

Serious imagemakers have come to trust and depend on this resource of innovative, traditional, and alternative photographic processes to enhance their technical knowledge, create astonishing pictures, and raise their visual consciousness.

This book offers new links between analog and digital photography by featuring clear, step-by-step instructions on topics ranging from making digital negatives, to using infrared film and toners, to alternative process techniques including salt prints, ambrotypes, kallitypes, Vandyke Brownprints, gumoil, gum bichromate, platinum and palladium processes, and more.

This edition showcases the thought-provoking work of more than 140 international artists including Peter Beard, Dan Burkholder, Carl Chiarenza, Michael Kenna, Dinh Q. Lê, Joe Mills, Andrea Modica, Bea Nettles, France Scully and Mark Osterman, Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Holly Roberts, Martha Rosler, Mike and Doug Starn, John Sexton, Brian Taylor, Jerry Uelsmann, and Joel Peter Witkin as well as other major and emerging talents. Image captions explain how each artist technically realized their vision and concept.