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Highlights Magazine 2002 - Portrait Highlights
From the pages of American Artist Magazine - Portrait Highlights is a comprehensive guide to handling all aspects of creating a portrait. It is a compilation of the best articles on portraiture published in American Artist over the past 10 years. Portrait Highlights covers:
- Drawing from life to hone your skills
- Pricing and selling commissioned portraits
- Managing the first 10 years of your career
- Formulas for lively skin tones
- Techniques for oil, pastel, and watercolor painting
- Self-portraits by famous artists
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Highlights Magazine 2003 - Watercolor Highlights
As all novices quickly discover, creating significant works of art in watercolor requires an understanding of materials and techniques, as well as the development of an individual style of expression. One magazine seeks to inform you about watercolor as a process--and as a personal creative outlet.
Watercolor Highlights collects the articles from Watercolor magazine that best explain how to work with paper, pigment, water, and brushes, as well as articles that demonstrate how the most accomplished artists use the medium. Whether you are just beginning your adventure with watercolor or advancing it to a higher level, Watercolor Highlights is an invaluable resource.
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Drawing Highlights 1994
From the pages of American Artist Magazine - Drawing Highlights is a collector's edition. It offers a comprehensive guide to creating a drawing. Drawing Highlights covers: Painting ideas with drawing power, Pen & ink drawings that sell, Colored pencil techniques step-by-step, and much more.
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Oil Highlights I Landscapes 1994
The editors of American Artist have selected the best articles on oil painting to create this three volume series. The first issue of Oil Highlights - Landscapes offers: Tips on plain air painting and working from photographs, Advice on capturing sunlight and shadow, Working with the palette knife or airbrush, How to design an effective composition, The ins and outs of painting in the city or country.
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Oil Highlights II Still Life 1994
The editors of American Artist have selected the best articles on oil painting to create this three volume series. Oil Highlights II - Still Life covers: Using color to draw in the viewer, capture emotion, or make a statement, Making the light work for you, How to handle complicated setups, Adding structure to your still lifes and Techniques of classical still-life painting.
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Oil Highlights III Figures 1994
The editors of American Artist have selected the best articles on oil painting to create this three volume series. Oil Highlights III - Figures covers: How to paint values accurately, Tips from the great masters of figure painting, Narrative compositions and single-session portraits, Step-by-step portrait painting demonstrations, Artist-to-artist advice on getting commissions, dealing with clients, and painting children's portraits.
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Learning From Today's Masters 1995
For the first time ever, the editors of American Artist are writing about the First Lifetime Achievement Award Winner. Learning From Today's Art Masters gives valuable advice from award winning artists. It also covers: Making critical career moves, Growing through experimentation, Painting radiant landscapes, Composing Dramatic Pictures, and Developing a personal vision.
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Watercolor Highlights - Summer 1993
From the pages of American Artist Magazine - this special Watercolor Highlights is a collector's edition. It offers a comprehensive guide to watercolor painting. This summer 1993 issue of Watercolor Highlights includes in-depth explorations of experimenting with new approaches, improving good paintings, achieving luminous colors, and using sketches & photos.
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Watercolor Highlights 2 - 1994
The editors of American Artist have put together this collector's edition which features a compilation of the best Watercolor articles that were published in the early 1990s. Watercolor Highlights 2, The Return gives valuable advice on materials, techniques, and the subject matter. It also covers: The 4 elements of a successful painting, Painting commercial illustrations, and Learning from the masters.
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1999 Color
The editors of American Artist have selected these articles to offer a comprehensive look at ways to select, mix, and apply colors to watercolor paintings. Each article in the 1999 Watercolor Color Highlights issue reveals how a group of artists organizes a palette of one color family, intermixes these pigments for specific results, and applies them in ways that masterfully achieves desired visual effects.
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2001 Color
Each article in the 2001 Oil Color Highlights issue contains the best advice on oil colors offered between 1991 and 1999. In most cases, the articles were rewritten and redesigned to emphasize the featured artist's methods for working with color, and new demonstrations and finished paintings were added when the artist's approach changed significantly after the original presentation.
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Art Methods & Materials 2000
The Art Methods & Materials Highlights issue attempts to help with the selection and use of artists' materials by providing technical descriptions of the products and professional advice on how artists employ them. Each article is illustrated with works of art, charts, and color swatches that demonstrate the range of creative options available with the materials being described.
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