This is a comprehensive guide to all the mat erials, techniques, methods and skills needed to get started and achieve excellence in drawing, watercolour, oil an

Introduces art materials and techniques, gives advice on drawing animals, people, plants, and architecture, and includes tips on color, composition, and perspec

A new step-by-step system employs hundreds of how-to Dorling Kindersley graphics to teach all aspects and stages of working in watercolors or oils, moving from

A examination of time-tested methods used by artists since the Renaissance to make realistic pictures of imagined things.

Expert guidance needed to experiment successfully with the full range of subjects and media are presented here.