The Home ArtistA complete teach-yourself guide to drawing, watercolors, and oils. |
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5cm 2in achieve Alizarin crimson angle applied areas of colour artist background basic begin blue bristle brush Cadmium red canvas cardboard century charcoal choose colour mixing colour wheel complementary colours composition contrast corners crayons create dark detail drawing drybrush easel edge effect example experience figure flat foreground frame gesso glue gouache green grey horizontal ideas impasto landscape Leonardo da Vinci light look materials medium mouldings mount natural objects observation oil paint Oil pastels painters palette knife paper particular pastel pencil perspective picture piece pigments portrait primary colours problems purple range Remember sable scene secondary colours Sgraffito shades shape sheet side sketch sketchbook slightly square stretcher stretching subject matter surface technique texture thin things tone transparent watercolours trees vanishing point viewfinder visual wash watercolour painting wood yellow