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"Change the Way You See Everything through Asset-Based Thinking"
"Each choice we make causes a ripple effect in our lives. When things happen to us, it is the reaction we choose that can create the difference between the sorrows of our past and the joy in our future". - Chelle Thompson Title Information |
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This brilliantly simple book on the philosophy known as Asset-Based Thinking, instills success-oriented habits in even the most die-hard cynic. Its transformational lessons--conveyed through unique photographic metaphors and inspiring stories from real people--reveal how the slightest shift in perception can lead to monumental results in both business and in life. ABT is not just positive thinking, but rather a systematic observation of "what works." Kathryn Cramer, an acclaimed corporate consultant, and Hank Wasiak, a creative icon of the advertising industry, have produced a work that looks and works like no other business or self-help book-because it IS like no other book. Change the Way You See Everything is a revolutionary approach to every aspect of life that bears not just reading, but re-reading, and sharing with people in your circle. You'll never look at the world the same way again. CONTENTS:
Book Review: Wonderful, Life Changing. If you want to change your life, you need to read this book. Krisstie Byrnne BVA Fine Art, MTeach |
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by Marian Appellof Title Information Author: Marian Appello |
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Imagine an art school where more than 15 popular watercolorists teach, and you've imagined Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Watercolor, a full-to-the-brim 400-page anthology of Watson-Guptill's finest watercolor instruction from recent best-selling authors. This treasure trove reviews the tools and materials of watercolor, then proceeds with the color palette, color mixing, and applied color theory. The full range of painting techniques is presented—the fundamentals of brushwork, laying in a simple wash, working wet-in-wet, drybrushing, masking, pouring, scratching, glazing, and more—as well as techniques for achieving various textures like tree bark and grass. Unconventional approaches such as painting with sand, collaging, and monoprinting are also covered. Different artists explain how to understand and work effectively with value, form, light, and shadow, as well as how to achieve good design and composition. The basics of perspective are also explained. The book includes sections on specific painting subjects, many with detailed step-by-step sequences. Some are based on working from photographs and sketches, others on painting on location and from live models. There are demonstrations of how to paint landscapes, figures, and flowers. Each lesson focuses on a particular technique or artistic principle, such as “Underpainting to Capture a Certain Time of Day” and “Linking Basic Shapes to Build Your Painting.” All in all, for breadth and variety in both teaching and painting styles, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Watercolor, is the best value in watercolor instruction available today. Marian Appellof is a senior editor at Watson-Guptill Publications. Brisbane Art Workshops Review: This book is a must have for the serious watercolourist, and is suitable for beginners to the advanced student. An excellent reference book. Krisstie Byrnne BVA Fine Art, MTeach. |
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Everything you always wanted to know about oil painting...but were afraid to ask. Or maybe you weren’t afraid—maybe you just didn’t know what to ask or where to start. In The Oil Painting Course You’ve Always Wanted, author Kathleen Staiger presents crystal clear, step-by-step lessons that build to reinforce learning. Brush control, creating the illusion of three dimensions, foolproof color mixing, still-life painting, landscapes, and portraits—every topic is covered in clear text, diagrams, illustrations, exercises, and demonstrations. Staiger has taught oil painting for more than thirty-five years; many of her students are now exhibiting and selling their paintings. Everyone from beginning hobby painters, to art students, to BFA graduates has questions about oil painting. Here at last are the answers! CONTENTS:
Kathleen Staiger has taught painting and drawing at every level for more than thirty-five years. A graduate of Hofstra University with masters degrees in art and literature, she is currently on the faculty of the Vero Beach Museum of Art in Florida, where she lives. Brisbane Art Workshops Book Review: This book is well laid out, easy to understand and follow, and is an excellent resource for the beginner. Krisstie Byrnne BVA Fine Art, MTeach |
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The only book that lets artists explore the highest levels of realistic oil painting. Title Information |
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As more and more artists today look to the past, there has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in painting realistically—in creating convincing illusions of three-dimensional depth on two dimensional surfaces. How did the Old Masters create their masterpieces? What kind of education allowed these great artists to create such beautiful work, and how can an artist learn these lessons today? Traditional Oil Painting answers those questions and many more. This comprehensive sourcebook explores the most advanced levels of oil painting, with full information on the latest scientific discoveries. Author and distinguished artist Virgil Elliott examines the many elements that let artists take the next step in their work: mental attitude, aesthetic considerations, the importance of drawing, principles of visual reality, materials, techniques, portraiture, photographic images versus visual reality, and color. Traditional Oil Painting helps artists master the secrets of realistic painting to create work that will rival that of the masters. * The traditions of the past, the breakthroughs of today CONTENTS:
Virgil Elliott is a world-respected painter and writer. He is included in the Art Renewal Center’s Gallery of Living Masters and one of only twenty-four artists worldwide with certification from the American Portrait Society. A Signature Member of the American Society of Portrait Artists and the Society of Western Artists, and the chairman of the ASTM International Task Group on Artists’ Pastels, he lives in Pennegrove, California. Brisbane Art Workshops Review: Lots of reading, great images, and fantastic demonstrations, this book is more suited to experienced painters, rather than beginners. This is a reference book that will sustain your interest over many years and will surely become a classic and a collector's item. Krisstie Byrnne BVA Fine Art, MTeach University Bookstore Review: Books like this one, similar to Jack Faragasso's "The Student's Guide To Painting", are an invaluable text, both for students undertaking formal training, and for those without access to competent instruction. It covers the basics of classical art and traditional materials, yet also delves into historical methods and materials. In doing so it dispels a lot of the confusion generated by the many self-styled painting gurus that fill the internet today, declaring to one and all that their way is the only way. The truly knowledgeable and honest classical painting teachers and traditional materials suppliers - Ron Garrett and James Groves instantly come to mind - will, no doubt, applaud Mr. Elliot's effort to share his vast, hard-won knowledge of classical realist painting techniques. Mr. Elliot has distilled the basics - the most important part of classical training - into easily digestible bites and ensures the reader is provided a solid foundation from which to move on to the more advanced topics. The section on working methods and materials of masters from past centuries gives the advanced student a glimpse of the various ways realist art may be successfully approached. And the demonstrations of these historical techniques make it easier for the motivated student to test and fully grasp each, and then take from it what he or she finds worthwhile, based on their own working methods. No single painting text can possibly cover such a vast subject to the nth degree. There will always be something not covered to someone's satisfaction. I'd imagine an author must choose what's most important to cover within the allotted time and space. And Mr. Elliot has done an admirable job of discerning what most likely is, and is not, important to the intermediate and advanced student of traditional painting. It's one of those books you will refer back to, time and time again, as you progress in your studies and as your ability grows. |
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For artists and painters who wish to create not only projects of beauty, but ones that also reflect inner spirituality, Making Pearls is the ultimate primer for expanding creativity and spirituality in every area of art and life. Filled with dozens of lush, reflective paintings, Making Pearls takes the reader, step by step, through the seven stages of the creative cycle: Waiting, Opening, Closing, Holding, Releasing, Emptying, and Sitting. Within each chapter are several evocative essays and inspirational exercises that demonstrate how each of these creative stages affects the mind, body, and spirit. Chapters also include meditative exercises, as well as an evolving painting project for the readers that serves as a microcosm of the full creative process. This reflective, inspirational guide demonstrates the essential process and purpose of creativity: to make pearls of meaning and beauty of our selves and our lives. For the new-age artist on the path to spiritual awareness, Making Pearls is the ultimate resource for living a totally creative life, body and soul. Jeanne Carbonetti is a teacher who specializes in helping students get in touch with the power of their own creative process. She is the author of the Path of Painting series. She lives in Chester, Vermont. Brisbane Art Workshops Review: If you want to create better abstracts that are more in tune with your creative self, and explore the creative process, then this is a great book to include in your personal library. Filled with many beautiful images of Carbonetti's paintings, the exercises in this book will help manifest your creative inspiration. Krisstie Byrnne BVA Fine Art, MTeach |
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Title Information Author: Lois Griffel |
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Impressionism — its techniques as well as its practitioners, past and present—continues to excite the passion of artists and art enthusiasts alike. From the plein-air landscapes first painted near the forests of Barbizon outside Paris, through the fields of Giverny that Monet immortalized, to the art of American expatriates such as John Singer Sargent and the European-trained American nativists like William Merritt Chase, the influence of impressionism on American art has had a long and distinguished history. Through artistic principles developed by Charles Hawthorne, an influential American impressionist and educator who studied with Chase and founded The Cape Cod School of Art, the rich legacy of the impressionist tradition was passed on to several generations of twentieth-century American artists. In Painting the Impressionist Landscape, Lois Griffel, the current director of The Cape Cod School of Art and an accomplished artist in her own right, explores and illustrates Hawthorne’s philosophy and theories about color and light, enabling artists at every level of ability and experience to apply his insights to their own work. The first part of the book, “Fundamentals of Color and Light,” elaborates on the circumstances and individuals that contributed to the development of impressionism. The author then outlines the progression of the study of color and light that is covered in detail later in the book, from simple block studies—the most effective way to learn to use pure color to express the effects and quality of light—through the more complex rounded forms in still lifes and portraits, to the most challenging forms intrinsic to landscape. Griffel then discusses the essentials of color—its terms, the impressionist palette, and color mixing—as well as how established color theory expresses and influences the impressionist approach. The second part of the book, “Impressionism in Practice,” takes readers through a series of explorations that guides them toward a mastery of the impressionist landscape. Griffel begins by itemizing the materials that artists need to prepare for painting outdoors and describing how the light of the setting affects color within the context of a composition. The detailed chapters on the studies—from sunny day and cloudy day blocks, to still lifes and portraits, culminating in landscapes—are all structured to lead readers through each step, enabling them first to evaluate, then eventually realize in their own painting, Hawthorne’s enlightening perceptions about capturing the radiance of nature's light in art. Beautifully illustrated with the art of the author, her colleagues at the artist’s colony in Provincetown, and selections by Monet, Sargent, and Hawthorne himself, Painting the Impressionist Landscape is a lively and informative guide to expressing light as color in art. Lois Griffel’s lifelong interest in art began at the age of five, when she first entertained neighborhood children with her drawings and paintings. She discovered early in her career that she enjoyed teaching and attended Southern Connecticut State College in order to receive her bachelor of science degree in education. Later, while making her living as a portrait painter, she enrolled at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York, where she studied with many outstanding artists, including Everett Raymond Kinstler and Harvey Dinnerstein. Her introduction in the early 1970s to Henry Hensche, Charles Hawthorne’s protégé, led to her in-depth study and practice of the impressionist theory of painting. As director and instructor at The Cape Cod School of Art, it gives her great joy to combine her loves of teaching and painting, and to share them with enthusiastic students. Ms. Griffel has had a number of one-person exhibitions throughout New England, and has been included in invitational exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Carmel, California. She holds workshops in landscape, portrait, and figure painting throughout the northeast. Brisbane Art Workshops Review: This book is a valuable addition to anyone's library and has opened my eyes to new ways of approaching a subject. With photographs, demonstrations and detailed explanations, this book is an invaluable reference book, and I would recommend it to both experienced artists and beginners. Krisstie Byrnne BVAFArt, MTeach. |
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Author: Stephen Quiller |
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Internationally renowned artist and best selling author Stephen Quiller shows readers how to discover their own personal "color sense" in Color Choices, a book that offers readers a fresh perspective on perfecting their own color styles. With the help of his own "Quiller Wheel," a special foldout wheel featuring 68 precisely placed colors, the author shows artists how they can develop their own unique color blends. First, Quiller demonstrates how to use the wheel to interpret color relationships and mix colors more clearly. Then he explains, step by step, how to develop five structured color schemes, apply underlays and overlays, and use color in striking, unusual ways. This book will bring out every artist's unique sense of color whether he or she works in oil, watercolor, acrylics, gouache, or casein. Stephen Quiller is an internationally recognized artist and teacher and is the author of the bestselling art guides Acrylic Painting Techniques and Painter's Guide to Color. He lives in Crede, Colorado. Handprint.com Review: Color Choices [is] by far and away the best book to explain and use a mixing color wheel. Most discussions of color stay at the level of generic color labels: "yellow and blue make green." Quiller has made the extra effort to precisely position over three dozen pigments (such as hansa yellow or ultramarine blue) on his mixing color wheel, then explains how to use the wheel to select an abstract color scheme (complementary, analogous, triadic, etc.) for your work. In this way he brings together the color wheel, paint selection and color design as a unified approach to color." |
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"Marketing and Buying Art Online: A Guide for Artists and Collectors"
Title Information Author: Marques Vickers
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This comprehensive resource walks artists, galleries, and resellers through the process of establishing an effective website geared to attract viewers, promote sales, and establish long-term, credible presence. Professional artist and collector Marques Vickers elaborates on the winning strategies, marketing tools and efficient tactics the most popular art and business websites employ to generate links, media exposure and buyers. This valuable volume for the developing Internet savvy artist-entrepreneur and informed art buyer provides details about a diverse range of emerging sales trends and opportunities on the Internet for traditional, original, and reproduction artwork. In addition, it presents evolving opportunities for licensed products, greeting card publishing, print on demand Gigle's, barter, auction exchanges, motion picture set decor, e-commerce stores, virtual art galleries, affiliate program and many others. Packed with valuable information and insights—from the basics of Internet marketing to the plethora of opportunities cyberspace offers artists.” — Caroll Michels, Career Coach, Artist-Advocate, and Author of How to Survive & Prosper as an Artist. This advanced guide to the World Wide Web for both buyers and sellers of art has everything you’ll need to know to go all the way on the Internet with your art business.” — Constance Smith, Author of Art Marketing 101. |
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"The Artist's Quest for Inspiration"
Title Information Author: Peggy Hadden |
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Praised for its authenticity and practical approach, this timely volume has been updated to inspire visual artists in their quest for creative growth. Peggy Hadden shares her secrets for overcoming creative blocks, from motivational exercises to meditation. Chapters contain advice on how to work your way out of an artistic slump and find inspiration in color, form, light, nature and artists media. You’ll discover sure-fire techniques for developing your own way of expressing yourself and be motivated to rediscover your unique artistic vision through: journal writing; revisiting childhood games; free-association drawing; working with other artists; creating an inspirational studio; meditation; creative brainstorming; music; and traveling. A new chapter explores how current events, such as the terrorism, war, and social unrest, affect an artist’s creative sensitivity and process. This stimulating companion provides deep and personal information into the way that an artist thinks and works. Artists at all levels—from the student, to the hobbyist, to the professional trying to jumpstart a career—will find a rich variety of innovative techniques to nourish the creative process. “This book will help you reach back to your most distant memories, stretch your senses, find the places inside you that are key to your inspiration.” — Digital Media FX. “This is not a ‘how-to-do-it’ book in the limited sense of cookbook-like instructions. It is a ‘how-to-do-it’ book in the larger sense of becoming inspired about making art.” — Arts & Activities |
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"The Big Book of Painting Nature in Oil" Title Information Author: S. Allyn Schaeffer and John Shaw |
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Depict the spidery delicacy of sycamore branches outlined against a brilliant sky. Capture the feeling of dawn creeping over the horizon. Interpret the drama of waves surging toward the shore. The Big Book of Painting Nature in Oil provides 135 stimulating demonstrations in painting trees, skies, and water from beautiful photographs by one of the world’s leading nature photographers. This book will be invaluable to landscape artists. The 600 magnificent illustrations and engaging text cover the entire range of oil painting techniques and give the artist in-depth instruction in painting beautiful images of the natural world in all seasons, weather, geographical variety, and at every time of day. Many of the lessons are followed by assignments designed to help you apply what you have just learned to new situations. The Big Book of Painting Nature in Oil is a must for everyone who wants to master the techniques for becoming a first-rate landscape painter. S. Allyn Schaeffer studied at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York. The author of Color, Composition and Light in the Landscape (Watson-Guptill), he is also a noted teacher and conducts workshops and demonstrations for Winsor & Newton. His artwork appears in many public and private collections. John Shaw is one of the world’s leading nature photographers. His work has appeared in such magazines as Audubon and National Wildlife, and in numerous books. Amazon Review: "This book shows how a painting can capture the essence of a landscape photo without the complexity of every bush tree and rock contained in a photoghaph. There are sections on changing the natural focal point away from animals to a prominent landscape. The sequencing of the development of the painting is easy to follow and little interpretation is required. It's very well presented with a great amount of detail which covers a vast number of settings. Seashore to mountains to forests, plains, and eastern lakes and streams are shown. A great addition to your how to and how to solve library." Brisbane Art Workshops Review This is one of THE most COMPREHENSIVE books on Landscape painting I've ever seen, and I'm so impressed I'm going to add this book to my personal library. The first 36 pages cover the basics such as materials, colour mixing, and the application of oil paint. The book is broken into the three parts that makeup Nature; "Trees", "Skies" and "Water". Within each of these sections there are explanations and demonstrations on how to paint various elements of light, reflected light, shadows and the subjects themselves. Each demonstration is painted from a photograph, and depicting the photograph alongside the painting is extremely helpful as it demonstrates how the artist approached the subject, how they simplified what appears complicated, as well as how and why they have chosen certain colours to represent the landscape. Krisstie Byrnne, BVA Fine Art; Master of Teaching. |
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"Problem Solving for Oil Painters: Recognizing what's gone wrong and how to make it right"
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by Hank Wasiak and Kathryn D. Cramer, Ph.D. 
by Kathleen Staiger
by Virgil Elliott
by Jeanne Carbonetti
by Lois Griffel
by Stephen Quiller
by Marques Vickers
by Peggy Hadden
by S. Allyn Schaeffer and John Shaw
by Gregg Kreutz