How to Use This Book This book includes step-by-step instructions for achieving a wide range of textures with graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, oil, and acrylic. Choose Your Medium - Find the section that focuses on your planned medium. Section I features pencil and charcoal; Section II features colored pencil; and Section III features oil and acrylic paint.Review and Gather - At the beginning of each section, you’ll find information about materials needed for the featured medium, plus techniques and terminology.Locate - Find your desired subject and texture in the Table of Contents (pages 3–5). Textures are organized into six categories: People, Animals, Fabrics & Textiles, Hard Surfaces, Nature, and Food & Beverage.Follow - Use the step-by-step process outlined to draw or paint your texture.Practice - Recreate the texture as it appears in the book; then integrate the textures into your own works of art! GRAPHITE CHARCOAL Works well on smooth to rough papers Works best on smooth (not glossy), rough, and textured papers Produces a wide range of gray tones Produces rich, dark tones and blends into gray tones White of the paper serves as the highlights White charcoal on toned paper serves as the highlights Capable of producing very detailed, controlled linework Capable of producing very expressive linework OIL & ACRYLIC River Pebbles River pebbles have smooth, rounded edges and glossy, reflective surfaces when wet. Use a flat brush and a glaze of ultramarine neutralized with a bit of burnt sienna. Redraw the stones and fill in shadows, blending the color over the stones. In this step, use a flat brush to establish the middle tones of the individual stones with yellow ochre, black, white, Venetian red, and ultramarine blue in various combinations. Work your brushmarks in circular movements that describe the roundness of the stones, and smooth out any rough strokes. Add small amounts of white to your various colors and thin them down to semi-transparent glazes. Continue adding dimension to your stones with loose brushstrokes on the portions of the pebbles that peek above the water. Keep your marks organic so they look like wet reflections on smooth stones. In this final step, add light reflections that encircle the tops of the stones as they peek above the water’s surface. Use a #2 round brush and a semiglaze of white paint to loosely suggest the shapes of surrounding objects, such as trees, on top of each stone.
✔ Author(s): Denise J. Howard,Steven Pearce,Mia Tavonatti
✔ Title: The Complete Book of Textures for Artists: Step-by-step instructions for mastering more than 275 textures in graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, acrylic, and oil
✔ Rating : 4.5 out of 5 base on (157 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1633228703
✔ ISBN-13: 9781633228702
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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