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2001

Format:	Book
Title:	Keys to painting trees & foliage / edited by Rachel Rubin Wolf.
Edition:	1st ed.
Publisher, Date:	Cincinnati, Ohio : North Light Books, ©2001.
Description:	128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Summary:	Capture nature's majestic splendor in your paintings with realistic trees and foliage. You'll learn expert advice from a prestigious gathering of landscape artists -- each a master at rendering realistic trees and foliage in watercolor, pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, oil, acrylic or pastel. Stanley Maltzman shows you how to sketch a tree-covered mountain in pencil. Claudia Nice shares her secrets for creating leaf textures in pen and ink. Learn watercolor techniques for painting ice on trees from Zoltan Szabo. Discover how to paint glowing autumn leaves in watercolor from Dawn Heim. It's all just a taste of the techniques and demonstrations waiting inside! Your artistic experience will be complete with exercises in pencil values, shading methods, setting a horizon line and sketching thumbnails. Your paintings will grow into works of art so real -- and so natural -- you'll wonder if the advice in Keys to Painting: Trees & Foliage was created by Mother Nature Herself. Book jacket.
Subjects:	Trees in art. Leaves in art. Painting -- Technique.
Other Title:	Keys to painting trees and foliage
Notes:	Includes index.
Contents:	Drawing Trees & Foliage -- The Proper Way to Hold a Pencil -- Pencil Values -- Shading Methods -- Cross-Hatching -- Carpenter's Pencil -- Blending -- Thumbnails -- Balancing Elements -- Horizon Lines -- Painting Trees -- Simple Tree Shapes -- A Variety of Tree Shapes -- Tree Bark -- Grasses -- Mix an Assortment of Greens -- Demonstration: Watercolor -- Bare Winter Trees -- Demonstration: Oil -- Painting Mountain Pines -- Fun Techniques for Painting Trees. Demonstration: Mixed Medium -- Create Trees Through Spray Painting -- Correcting With Collage -- Painting Foliage & Grasses -- Demonstration: Watercolor -- Realistic Autumn Leaves -- Break Away From Tube Greens -- Complementary Colors for Foliage -- Try Bold Bright Foliage Colors -- Demonstration: Pen and Ink -- Leaf Textures in Pen and Ink -- Weeds and Grasses -- Moss and Ferns -- Lichen -- Mushrooms -- Demonstration: Watercolor -- Paint Grasses and Reeds. Demonstration: Watercolor -- Close-Up: Grasses and Reeds -- Winter Works Magic on Trees & Foliage -- Drawing Trees in Light Snow -- Techniques for Showing Heavy Snow -- Demonstration: Graphite Pencil -- Drawing a Snowy Landscape -- Drawing Tree-Covered Mountains -- Snow on Trees -- Drawing Winter Leaves -- Watercolor Shadows on Snow -- Sunlight on Snow -- Warmly Lit Snow -- Falling Snow -- Trees in Heavy Snow -- Young Spruce in Snow -- Ice on Trees -- Frost on Trees -- Mist. Demonstration: Acrylic -- A Wooded Snow Scene -- Painting Trees "En Plein Air" & "En Studio" -- Nature and You -- Demonstration: Oil -- En Plein Air in Winter -- Demonstration: Acrylic -- A Snow Scene From a Photograph -- Demonstration: Pastel -- Sunlight Penetrating a Morning Fog -- Mood Changes From the Outdoors to the Studio -- Oil Sketches Become Studio Paintings.
LCCN:	00048700
ISBN:	1581801874 9781581801873 089134974X 9780891349747
Other Number:	45066061
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Control Number:	107056
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Call Number:	758.5 Keys to

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