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101 Techniques

Each title in Barron’s growing series of 101 Techniques art instruction manuals focuses on a specific art media and teaches students and amateur artists through purely visual means. Relying on a progression of step-by-step captioned illustrations, the exercises in this book teach the basics of virtually every technique an artist needs to know in order to master the media.Exercises apply to various styles of brushwork, application of pigments with a palette knife, portrait and figure painting, landscapes, water scenes, and much more. Full color illustrations throughout.