painting

Photographs and simple text introduces colors and the mixing of colors to create different looks.

Text and accompanying photographs provide instructions and "handy hints" for a variety of painting projects, such as straw and splatter painting, stenciling, marbling, and wet paper painting.

Contains several essays that describe retablo art, or sacred paintings on tin, from Mexico in the nineteenth century, and includes color pictures, restoration philosophy, conservation methods, and a description of the iconography present in the retablos.

Presents eighteen famous paintings and zooms in on various parts of their compositions, showing readers several ways of examining a work of art. Also provides brief artist biographies and lists the paintings' locations.

Painting landscapes of Kaaterskill Clove, a gorge in the Hudson River Valley of upstate New York, helps an artist discover the beauty of nature.

Fifteen-year-old Giacomo, servant to Leonardo da Vinci, helps his procrastinating master finish painting, "The Last Supper," while also trying to find clues to his parentage and pursue his own career as an artist in late fifteenth-century Milan.

Presents a guide to oil painting, including choices, mixing, techniques, tips, subjects, and more.