Now you can paint with oils using water to thin the colours, and soap and water to clean the brushes, and the results are just as vibrant, textured and exciting. Using this versatile and easy-to-use medium, Michael Sanders shows you how to master water mixable oils - with hints, tips and guidelines on glazing, blending, scumbling, stippling, impasto and more. The paints work just like conventional oils and their consistency, lightfastness, transparency/opacity and performance allow artists to use them for all oil painting techniques. In this book, Michael includes simple step-by-step demonstrations to build up confidence and to help improve skills. He offers expert guidance on the medium, showing how to create successful, vibrant paintings full of atmosphere and interest. Landscapes, flowers, buildings and more are included, providing an ideal guide and an inspirational introduction to these environmentally friendly paints.

Fiona Peart's work is innovative and inspiring, using many different types of watersoluble media on their own and in combination. In this book Fiona guides you through four essential ways of working with watersoluble media; each of which can be applied to whatever you have in your cupboard at home whether you have inks, watercolour or acrylic paints, watersoluble pencils or sticks and they even encompass multimedia collage. Includes illustrated step-by-step example paintings and techniques for ease of use. Open this book and come into the vibrant and fresh world of watersoluble media!

Shows the reader how to use water-soluble (Aquarelle) pencils and pastels, and how to achieve successful results with them. The book discusses the pencils themselves and the different techniques that can be used, and goes on to encourage the reader to practice and get the feel of the pencils.

Would you love to take your art in a new direction? In Abstract Art Painting, you will enter a realm of tactile, intuitive excitement, combining pastel and acrylic to achieve results as unique as you are. You'll learn how to explore the use of color theory in abstraction and to use underpainting to bring structure and depth to your art. In addition you'll begin to understand how to work in a series and how this can help you develop your own personal style. A sampling of what you'll add to your creative toolbox: • Pastel and acrylic techniques to use to complete your own paintings • The benefits of expressing your ideas abstractly • How to loosen up by using your nondominant hand and drawing to music • Ways to express emotions through mark-making • Using color and symbolism for expression • Working with photos for inspiration • Tips for using color studies Step into your own abstract frame of mind today!

Easy and clean to use, water-soluble pencils are portable and infinitely versatile. Wendy Jelbert here gives lively step-by-step demonstrations of flowers, still-life, landscapes and buildings. Wendy demonstrates the myriad possibilities of water-soluble pencils and other forms of aquarelle media, such as pastels and water-dispersible coloured charcoal pencils. She offers guidance on using and combining these materials for painting and drawing, and shows a wide range of techniques including spraying with water and drawing on wet paper. Her colourful and varied drawings and paintings include fun exercises to get to know the media, helpful step-by-step demonstrations, and a gallery of funished paintings of flowers, gardens and still-life. Replaces ISBN 0 85532 771 5

Introduces the materials, and describes the different techniques for using this medium, including wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and masking.