The Best Painting Crafts & Hobbies Books 2024

1. One Painting a Day : A 6-Week Course in Observational Painting--Creating Extraordinary Paintings from Everyday Experiences

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One Painting a Day

2. The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting

The Complete Photo Guide to Creative PaintingFormat: PaperbackAuthors: Paula Guhin, Geri GreenmanISBN10: 1589235401Published: 2010-11-01

The Complete Photo Guide to Creative Painting

3. Priscilla Hauser's Book of Roses

Paint your own beautiful, lifelike roses.Priscilla Hauser makes it easy with simple techniques and imaginative projects - all the guidance you need to create gifts and fabulous decorative accessories.First, Priscilla will help you master the flower painting basics, everything from executing simple brushstrokes and loading your brush to blending colors and preparing - and finishing - a surface. Petal by petal and leaf by leaf, you'll learn the basics of building roses, rosebuds, leaves, petals, filler flowers and more.Priscilla also provides 10 elegant projects for you to paint. Each one comes with easy-to-follow instructions, traceable patterns, complete materials lists and color-swatch charts that ensure wonderful results every time.You'll find these projects and more inside:Small keepsake chestWhite tray with lace borderWooden box with coaster setHeart-shaped switch plateHandpainted wedding invitationCopper garden angelWooden clock with pendulumSatin dress formFloral hat box

Paint your own beautiful, lifelike roses. Priscilla Hauser makes it easy with simple techniques and imaginative projects - all the guidance you need to create gifts and fabulous decorative accessories. First, Priscilla will help you master the flower painting basics, everything from executing simple brushstrokes and loading your brush to blending colors and preparing - and finishing - a surface. Petal by petal and leaf by leaf, you'll learn the basics of building roses, rosebuds, leaves, petals, filler flowers and more. Priscilla also provides 10 elegant projects for you to paint. Each one comes with easy-to-follow instructions, traceable patterns, complete materials lists and color-swatch charts that ensure wonderful results every time. You'll find these projects and more inside: Small keepsake chest White tray with lace border Wooden box with coaster set Heart-shaped switch plate Handpainted wedding invitation Copper garden angel Wooden clock with pendulum Satin dress form Floral hat box

4. Whimsical Accents for Your Home

Whimsical Accents for Your Home

Whimsical Accents for Your Home McWilliams, Jeff

5. Adorable Animals You Can Paint (Paperback)

Learn to paint a menagerie of lovable little creatures. It's fun and easy, even if you're a beginner. Just follow this guide's step-by-step photos and instructions and in no time, you'll be using watercolors and acrylics to paint all kinds of adorable animals in a range of charming settings. Ten start-to-finish demonstrations show you how to capture the cuddly features and precious expressions of puppies, kittens, bunnies, chicks, fawns and more. Twelve additional mini-demos offer complete guidance for getting all the details just right, including fur, feathers, eyes, noses and whiskers. Best of all, you can easily mix and match your favorite animals and settings to create your own unique compositions! Traceable patterns, materials lists and color-mixing instructions are also included to make every project foolproof and enjoyable. There's even an inspiring gallery of finished work to give you new ideas, plus a special section that shows you how to put your own pet in the painting. With "Adorable Animals You Can Paint," creativity has never been so cute and cuddly!

Learn to paint a menagerie of lovable little creatures. It's fun and easy, even if you're a beginner. Just follow this guide's step-by-step photos and instructions and in no time, you'll be using watercolors and acrylics to paint all kinds of adorable animals in a range of charming settings. Ten start-to-finish demonstrations show you how to capture the cuddly features and precious expressions of puppies, kittens, bunnies, chicks, fawns and more. Twelve additional mini-demos offer complete guidance for getting all the details just right, including fur, feathers, eyes, noses and whiskers. Best of all, you can easily mix and match your favorite animals and settings to create your own unique compositions! Traceable patterns, materials lists and color-mixing instructions are also included to make every project foolproof and enjoyable. There's even an inspiring gallery of finished work to give you new ideas, plus a special section that shows you how to put your own pet in the painting. With Adorable Animals You Can Paint, creativity has never been so cute and cuddly!

6. Dogs & Puppies : Step-By-Step Instructions for 25 Different Dog Breeds

Using basic shapes, such as circles, triangles, and rectangles, this book offers step-by-step instructions for drawing 25 breeds of dogs.

This addition to the Drawing Made Easy series helps beginning artists learn how to draw their best friends - especially when their pals have four paws and fur! Author-artist Nolon Stacey reveals his secrets for drawing amazingly realistic dogs and puppies, focusing on techniques specific to drawing accurate depictions of canines - from creating a variety of fur types and features to achieving accurate proportions. The step-by-step projects showcase a range of popular dog breeds, including a Golden Retriever, Parson Russell Terrier, Basset Hound, and more beautiful dogs and puppies!

7. Draw and Color (Walter Foster): Cars & Trucks: Step-By-Step Instructions for 28 Different Vehicles (Paperback)

Start your engines! This award-winning book is the perfect choice for kids who want to learn how to draw all their favorite vehicles! Step-by-step, easy-to-follow illustrations guide kids through drawing 28 different cars and trucks of all shapes and sizes-starting with basic shapes and ending with lifelike finished drawings. Meanwhile, fun facts about the featured vehicles add extra entertainment value

Draw and Color (Walter Foster): Cars & Trucks: Step-By-Step Instructions for 28 Different Vehicles (Paperback)

8. Quarry Books Unfurling

Painted Pages...

More inspirational guide than step-by-step workbook, "Painted Pages" is about helping you to find your own unique way, in the everyday, to be creative and make art. With specific how-to techniques and creative prompts on using an artist's sketchbook in a new way, these pages provide a gentle push to help you discover and integrate your creative passions through sketchbooks, workspaces, and mixed media. Through beautiful full-color imagery, you'll learn in each chapter how your collections, scraps, ideas, and doodles can lead directly to, and fuel ideas for, creating individual works of art. Using her own materials and methods as a source of motivation, Sarah Ahearn Bellemare provides an inside look at her personal creative processes, sharing her use of her favorite resources alongside tips and tricks for making art - all the while encouraging you to explore, play, and make mistakes as part of the journey. At the end of each chapter, Sarah takes you to visit the studios and sketchbooks of some of her fellow artists - including Shanna Murray, Christine Chitnis, Stephanie Levy, and others - for behind-the-scenes glances into their creative work. Become inspired to build upon your own artistic style and discover the beauty in everyday life with "Painted Pages"

9. Brave Intuitive Painting-Let Go, Be Bold, Unfold!

Brave Intuitive Painting-Let Go, Be Bold, Unfold! ...

Adopt a spontaneous, bold, and fearless approach to painting as a process of discovery—one that results in lush and colorful finished works that will beg to be displayed. This inspiring and encouraging book for both novice and experienced painters teaches how to create colorful, exciting, expressive paintings through a variety of techniques, combining basic, practical painting principles with innovative personal self-expression. Flora S. Bowley's fun and forgiving approach to painting is based on the notion that “You don't begin with a preconceived painting in mind; you allow the painting to unfold.” Illustrating how to work in layers, Flora gives you the freedom to cover up, re-start, wipe away, and change courses many times along the way. Unexpected and unique compositions, color combinations, and subject matter appear as you allow your paintings to emerge in an organic, unplanned way while working from a place of curiosity and letting go of fear. Learn techniques for working with vibrant color and avoiding mud. Make rich and varied marks with a variety of unexpected tools. Break compositional rules. Embrace nonattachment as a way to keep exploring. Keep momentum by moving your body and staying positive. Work with what's working to let go of struggle. Connect more deeply to the world around you to stay inspired. Embrace layers to create rich complex paintings. Find rhythm by spiraling between chaos and order.

10. Lin Wellford's Painted Garden Art Anyone Can Do (Paperback)

Get ready to rock your world!You don't need a green thumb to turn your yard into a work of art! Painted garden art is the perfect, low-cost way to add color and visual interest to your landscape.Lin Wellford makes it easy with these fun, imaginative projects: Vibrant stepping stonesBreathtaking focal points and accentsRealistic faux fishEver-blooming borders and flower-filled plantersDecorative pieces perfect for any garden, porch, or patioThis is art anyone can do!

Get ready to rock your world!You don't need a green thumb to turn your yard into a work of art! Painted garden art is the perfect, low-cost way to add color and visual interest to your landscape.Lin Wellford makes it easy with these fun, imaginative projects:Vibrant stepping stonesBreathtaking focal points and accentsRealistic faux fishEver-blooming borders and flower-filled plantersDecorative pieces perfect for any garden, porch, or patioThis is art anyone can do!