The North Light Illustrated Book of Painting Techniques

by Elizabeth Tate

Illustrations and explanations of 45 painting techniques, with demonstrations of how they apply to specific painting subjects. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089134148X
• ISBN13: 9780891341482
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Northlight
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

wonderful resource

This is full of lots of pictures and great for a student of painting. They cover everything. You will love it and use it!

Great Addition to any artistic reference library

I too checked this out of the library first and then went on to buy it. This book is well organized and will introduce you to various techniques that you can work up on your own or go forward and do more research on. It is the kind of reference book that will allow you the knowledge that a paticular technique is available when you otherwise might not even have known about it....This will sit right next to my How To on leaves, flowers, animals, pen....and I would recommend to others also. Every page has a creative idea that will push you onward to better creations. I am glad I bought it.

Wonderful Book

This art book is good for everyone. It covers all sorts of art problems that you might be having. Visually it is a beautiful book. I highly recommend it to artists of any level.

Great resource!

Great book for techniques in mixed media. I have to admit i checked this one out at the library first and realized when it was a month overdue and i was still having problems returning it that i should just buy the book. Tate gives great ideas on different effects that you can acheive while painting etc... but i was also hoping for some more actual finished product examples where she illustrated the ideas presented. It didn't hinder the wonderful inspiration and ideas too badly, but it'd be nice to see more of the final works- or different ways you can incorporate the uses shown. I use this book all the time when questions arise or i just want something cool to inspire me.

A Wonderful Resource Guide!

I loved this book! Elizabeth Tate has given us a comprehensive guide to painting techniques, which can be helpful to anyone, regardless of their level of mastery. She offers step-by-step instructions, with wonderful illustrations of each step in the process. Some of the techniques include blending, backruns, gradations, masking out and many, many more. The author also explains how to create various themes such as landscapes, still life and portraits, to name a few. This book has a wealth of information, written in an intelligent and useful manner. The illustrations are incredible and would inspire anyone to pick up a paintbrush. I couldn't recommend it more!