In this book, William F. Powell invites you into his artistic world as he shows you how to render a variety of beautiful trees in pencil. The author explains a number of basic drawing techniques before exploring basic tree shapes and leaf types. As you learn how to draw branches, bark, and ground foliage, step by step, you’ll also discover important tips about shading, creating textures, setting up compositions, and applying perspective—helping you develop your own tree drawings to their fullest potential. Helpful examples and essential information make this comprehensive guide a valuable addition to any artist’s drawing library!
la Ades invites you into her artistic world and shows you how to re-create an array of beautiful flowers—everything from a simple pitcher of pansies to an elegant spray of roses. In this step-by-step guide, she explains not only a number of acrylic painting techniques (including those for creating special effects) but also her own method of developing a painting from start to finish, which will help you use acrylic to its fullest potential. As you follow along, you will discover how to create various moods and establish points of interest in your paintings.
Sharpie Paint Markers. Use these paint markers on virtually any surface: metal, pottery, wood, rubber, glass, plastic, stone and more. Permanent oil-based opaque color paint marker. Marks opaque and glossy on light or dark surfaces. Quick-drying paint resistant to water, fading and abrasion. 15 bold colors. AP Certified and Xylene free.
This is a fast drying medium that improves the flow and speeds the drying of Artisan water-soluble oil colors. It is also useful for smoothing out brushwork and increasing the gloss and transparency of the colors. It is excellent for glazing and producing fine detail and is resistant to yellowing.
When mixed with turpentine or white mineral spirit, this viscous, slow drying pale oil will improve oil color flow, and impart a tough, elastic finish.
This medium thins the consistency of Artisan water-soluble oil colors and aids fine detail work. It also improves the flow and wetting of the colors. It dries slowly to a flexible film and is good for oiling out sunken oils from bottom layers of paintings.
This remixed, all-in-one blending and glazing medium allows you to blend oil and alkyd colors without making them too transparent or too fluid to cover well. When used in glazing, it does not become tacky quickly, allowing highlights and shadows to be built up slowly. In 75ml. bottles.
Printing on canvas is incredibly versatile and a great way to create a ready-to-hang image or artwork. Every canvas that we print is protected with a UV coated acrylic finish to guard the print from dust, moisture and fading. Do you want your canvas stretched on bars or non-stretched? Framed or unframed? Customize the work to make it truly your own.
Nowadays just about anyone can take a good quality photographs with a digital camera. Or take a few hundred pictures and the chances are few will be good, and even one or two outstanding.
Here are a few tips, tricks and techniques on how to make art print poster ready photographs and print ready digital files. Don’t get overwhelmed, there is a lot of information here, but a lot of it is just intuitive. Well, a bit of patience will always help.
First thing – Photo Size
If you taking a digital photo of you family or friend the largest size you would print is usually 5 by 7 inches, maybe 8 by 10 at the most. Even small size digital photographs (2MB or less) are ‘good enough’ to create a decent print. But if you want to create prints that are 16 by 20, 20 by 24 inches or larger you need more pixels (in pixels 20 by 24 inches photo is actually about 40 times larger than 3 by 4 inches photo assuming they have the same resolution).
Watercolor is an easy, fun medium for creating art. Color theory, composition and design can be explored freely with watercolor paint, paper, and brushes. Several techniques may be used with watercolors for varying effects including painting wet on wet, wet on dry, layering washes, and more.
Watercolor paper comes in cold press, hot press, and rough. Rough paper has the most texture, and its hills and valleys can result in interesting effects when paint is added. Hot press is the smoothest and has the finest texture. Cold press has a moderate amount of texture and is the paper most commonly chosen by watercolor artists.
Watercolor paper comes in several weights ranging from 90 lb. to 300 lb. based on the pounds per ream of paper. Most artists prefer to use at least 140 lb. paper. Papers vary somewhat between manufacturers, so sampling different papers is advisable. Paper can be purchased in pads, in blocks or in large sheets. The large sheets are usually the most economical and can be torn into whatever size is desired.
Art Supplies 
In this book, William F. Powell invites you into his artistic world as he shows you how to render a variety of beautiful trees in 
la Ades invites you into her artistic world and shows you how to re-create an array of beautiful flowers—everything from a simple pitcher of pansies to an elegant spray of roses. In this step-by-step guide, she explains not only a number of 
Sharpie Paint Markers. Use these paint markers on virtually any surface: metal, pottery, wood, rubber, glass, plastic, stone and more. Permanent oil-based opaque color paint marker. Marks opaque and glossy on light or dark surfaces. Quick-drying paint resistant to water, fading and abrasion. 15 bold colors. AP Certified and Xylene free.
Grabs and holds almost instantly. Works on a wide range of materials such as paper, cardboard, cork, fabric, foils, and plastics. 
Pushpins with a 1/2" head and a 3/8" point. Twenty pins per package. 