Jump into the exciting world of paint pouring-and instantly create dazzling, abstract art-with this comprehensive how-to guide by the popular founder of the “Mixed Media Girl” YouTube channel. Paint pouring-which involves using a free-flowing acrylic paint mixture created with a pouring medium, such as glue and water-is the hottest trend for making abstract art. In this fun, colorful guide, Marcy Ferro explains everything about working in this...

New painters wanted! No experience is necessary with Lin Wellford's instruction. Thousands have already discovered the thrill of turning rocks into works of art through Wellford's easy-to-follow tips. Her bestselling books have helped to awaken interest in modern rock painting. The Art of Rock Painting offers a variety of easy projects designed to introduce basic painting techniques yet still appeal to seasoned painters. These projects include instructions...

With simple text and color photographs, learn what is fun about painting.

Comprehensive "how-to" manual takes all levels of students through the creative process, providing detailed instructions for painting such simple subjects as bamboo and plum blossoms as well as more ambitious motifs: birds, fish, and landscapes. Some sections describe how to adapt Chinese brush painting to Western subjects. 150 illustrations, including 82 in full color.

If you think all portrait-painting books are the same, think again. This book will inspire you to approach your canvas with renewed (or newly discovered) enthusiasm and confidence. Using modern-day techniques, Luana Luconi Winner shows you how to capture not only a physical likeness, but also the personality and unique, natural expression of your subject. Her direct, relaxed teaching style takes the intimidation out of painting portraits, empowering...

Until the end of the 19th century Naïve Art, created by untrained artists and characterised by spontaneity and simplicity, enjoyed little recognition from professional artists and art critics. Naïve painting is often distinguished by its clarity of line, vivacity and joyful colours, as well as by its rather clean-cut, simple shapes, as represented by French artists such as Henri Rousseau, Séraphine de Senlis, André Bauchant and Camille Bombois....

Easy-to-follow instructions will teach readers how to create amazing creatures, incredible toys, and wild gifts for friends and family. All it takes is some paint, a few rocks, and imagination.