In a world where everything has more possible explanations than ever before, where no experience seems real unless it is refracted, this book examines love, loss, and time itself under a variety of lenses: these poems are made from other poems, from paintings, from songs, from spam emails, snapshots, jokes, dreams.

Nov 07

Readers will learn to combine watercolour with other media to enhance their painting style, expand their creativity and improve their art-work."Exploring Watercolor" is filled with easy-to-use features, including charts and colour wheels, as well as more than 40 exercises and mini-demos. All exercises and demos can be completed multiple times, offering the reader varying results and endless opportunities.For beginning artists and experienced painters alike, "Exploring Watercolor" offers a new and exciting creative outlet.

12/1/08

Jean Pedersen teaches how to capture the beauty of the human face and figure. By combining watercolour with other water-friendly mediums, Jean produces rich darks contrasted by extreme lights to create texture-filled paintings that convey the mood and emotion of the subject. Every aspect of painting mixed media portraits will be addressed, including compositional considerations, rendering the figure accurately and successfully combining different mediums.The book contains a special chapter on skin tones and how to create the right one for different ethnicities as well as a section on composition and design so the reader can direct the viewer's eye.

28 fully illustrated mini- and full demonstrations show readers how to paint a variety of people, sexes, races and ages.

This is a comprehensive guide that will lead beginners through the approaches and techniques needed to create great fantasy art. Part One provides a thorough grounding in all the theoretical and practical skills. Part Two shows how to put these skills into practice in a series of step-by-step demonstrations.