Through pictures and handwritten instructions, Nice teaches artists how to use watercolor with pen and ink to create a wide range of exciting textures: from moss to metal to animal hair.
Discusses the materials and techniques of pen and ink drawing and offers examples and advice for sketching plants, animals, faces and figures, landscape elements, water, and buildings.
Showing how to paint a variety of leaves, vines, weathered wood arbors, birdbaths, and other outdoor details, bestselling author Claudia Nice provides all the information artists need to create gorgeous country garden art. 150 color illustrations.
Using inks and liquid watercolour paints specially made for pens, Claudia Nice shows artists of all skill levels how to achieve the warm moods, rough textures and mellow hues of aging barns, farmhouses, mansions, and more. Claudia reveals simple methods for rendering a range of charming subjects. She includes a wide variety of textures, from ...
Fantasy continues to be hot, and it's not just for children interested in comics. Many artists love mythological creatures like mermaids, centaurs and dragons. And with Creating Creatures of Fantasy and Imagination, they'll learn how to make realistic-looking fantasy artwork. With characteristic friendly instruction, the author shows ways to: ...
Fine artists and decorative painters turn to Claudia Nice time after time for her easy-to-follow, conversational instruction. And now, in "Painting Your Favorite Animals in Pen, Ink and Watercolor", she provides 14 complete step-by-step projects that teach how to refine simple shape diagrams into drawings, add color with watercolor, and finish ...
Self-taught artist Claudia Nice teaches anyone, even those who say they can't draw, how to keep an illustrated sketchbook journal. Artists and non-artists alike will learn how to creatively illustrate their thoughts, ideas and feelings, as well as record the events and details of their lives and the world around them. Claudia begins by introducing ...
Best-selling author and artist Claudia Nice shows readers how to create incredible art in watercolor, pen and ink. She makes it easy by covering all the drawing and painting basics -- from materials and texture techniques to color theory and special effects. It's a one-of-a-kind course in making extraordinary art. Nice provides guidelines, advice ...
Anyone willing to learn can celebrate the wonder of nature with Claudia Nice's techniques for combining pen and ink with watercolor. Offering clear, step-by-step instruction for painting a range of subjects, she focuses on the little details first, from soil and leaves to wildflowers and birds. As artists are guided piece-by-piece through the ...
This book is perfect for beginner watercolourists and artists in other media interested in trying something new - particularly decorative painters. It assumes they have absolutely no prior knowledge of watercolour and proceeds from there. The basic questions all beginners ask will be explained and illustrated in simple, step-by-step, fool-proof ...
With the help of reference photos and field sketches, the author shows how to create realistic and colourful paintings of landscapes, ranging from expansive mountain vistas to more intimate vignettes such as tree-shaded streams and country lanes. To simplify things for the reader: each chapter explores a separate component of landscape painting: ...
Bestselling author Claudia Nice shows how to draw and paint colourful seascapes, shorelines and beach scenes using watercolour textured with pen and ink. With the help of reference photos and field sketches, Claudia demonstrates how to create realistic and colourful paintings ranging from dramatic whitewater waves to more intimate vignettes such ...
A guide for amateur painters to using pen and ink watercolour techniques to produce detailed, textured results. Materials are examined, from technical pens to liquid acrylics, and different techniques are shown, such as blotting and spattering, together with various mixtures for special effects.
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