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Make Your Mark with Confident, Dramatic Strokes

Imagine painting with the virtuosity of the masters. With Bold Strokes, you can learn how, step by step. Beloved artist and teacher Mark Christopher Weber takes this seemingly complex manner of painting and breaks it down into simple, manageable steps that you can apply to your own style. He starts with the very basics so you can achieve success no matter what your skill level. Full-color photos and numbered steps illustrate in-depth instruction covering:

• Tools & Materials--everything you need from brushes to paint, including a section highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of both oils and acrylics
• Brushwork Basics--learn the mechanics of shaping brushes, loading paint and applying strokes for loose and expressive brushwork
• The Bold Challenge--use five basic strokes to manipulate thick paint and limit the number of overall strokes for heightened dramatic effect

Customer Reviews (4)

Disappointed
Thought the most interesting painting was on the cover page. Was disappointed with the rest of the book.

Artwork
Having retired and taking an oil painting class that is primarily landscapes, this book has helped me understand the painting process a great deal.

Disappointed in sequel to Brushwork Essentials
Mark's first book, Brushwork Essential is a very informative, instructional book on painting, covering a lot more than just knowledge on brushes. I love his realistic style of painting and was hoping for more insight on how to create such lovely work.Bold Strokes takes a completely different approach to painting, but uses much of the same stuff that was in the first book about loading brushes and the brand of paint he prefers.
I found this book was filled with large and full page photos and a lot less text. Also many of the pages have large blank areas, making it a quick read.
To me this style of painting with it's globs and smears of paint is too unfinished and amateurish looking. The exercises give brief instruction with each photo to get you to try the various techniques and strokes, but the colors are awful.

Bold, beautiful COLOR!!!
I love this book!!! It just arrived today and I could not put it down. New to oils, I got a good education first and foremost, and being no stranger to art, I adapted immediately to all the techniques explained!This book is a gem for those who love COLOR! The tutorials are bright and beautiful, step by step, Mark Christopher is a wonderful teacher and the basics are really all you need to create beautiful works of art that will stand the test of time.If for nothing else, buy the book for the beauty of it. :)Great that it's in hardcover too, I know I will be holding onto this one for a long time! Not enough starts on the review to give it all I wanted to! Awesome book and I would never have known about it had I not read Painter Magazine.. so thumbs up to a recommendation!Thank you Mark Weber!!! ... Read more

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How to draw and paint landscapes, from coastal vistas to rolling hills to city skylines. Clear tutorials are followed by practice sketches and over 30 easy-to-follow projects by professional artists. ... Read more

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Expert and easy-to-follow guidance on how to treat classical subjects, from landscape to portraits. ... Read more

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Mixing colors accurately may be an art unto itself. In fact, many artists are discouraged by the time and expense it takes to mix and match colors, and achieve the right results. Even more frustrating is the vast range of colors available. Now there's a ready-to-use visual directory that takes all the guesswork out of mixing and matching colors . . . making every artist an expert! Color Mixing Bible provides a basic color palette for each art medium, demonstrating an array of two-, three-, and four-color mixes, as well as offering full explanations of various paints and pigments. This invaluable guide features scores of tips and techniques for color mixing with oils, acrylics, watercolors, inks, pastels, and virtually every other art medium. It also includes in-depth information on how to determine the opacity and strength of a color, choose a color palette, mix whites, arrange and organize colors prior to mixing, use optical and physical mixing techniques, and much more! Plus, hundreds of color illustrations make everything simple. Whether one is an aspiring artist or working professional, Color Mixing Bible is an essential addition to every bookshelf. ... Read more

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The only color mixing book you'll ever need
I airbrush and oil paint and have bought several different color guides and this is the only one I will ever need.The colors in it as references are easily available in most brands of paints and the mixing ratios are easy to understand and transfer to any quantity you need. You can't go wrong when it tells you to mix 1 part naphthol crimson to 1 part cerulean blue to get a brick red...the only other thing I would consider getting with this book is the Magic Palette guide to hang on the wall where I paint.

New Best Friend!
I was pleasantly surprised by the Color Mixing Bible, it had more to it than I could have hoped for! I bought it to help ME make better choices in the acrylics I was about to invest in but, as a drawing and painting teacher, I have used it to help students in preliminary exercises with pastels, my advanced students have used it for setting up their pencil "palette" before starting assignments, my graphics students, who are into cartooning, have snatched it for the ink mixing section, the "subject mix" section has helped some of my Fundamentals students understand what to look for in making a formal analysis of artists' palettes, the book is new and already lovingly abused! Ian Sidaway has provided clear and consistent visual tables of results that have helped me and my students make better choices the first time with fewer of the unhappy accidents that occur in the haste of classrooms and deadlines. I particularly enjoy the "Watchpoints" that offer tips and caveats about certain pigments and their behaviors.
I strongly recommend the Color Mixing Bible to artists that work in different media; sometimes we get stuck mixing in a medium that just doesn't respond as expected because we are less practiced in it. This book allows the opportunity to make visual comparisons between media as we work.

Bunch of Charts
This book is just a bunch of color charts showing how one color mixes with all the others such as how cadmium orange mixes with particular reds, yellows, blues etc.It is great for traditional media such as oils, watercolors, and ink, but is completely useless for digital art.I like the book, and it's great if you do oil painting and are looking for just the right color, but I think it's a bit on the pricey side.Still if you don't want to waste a lot of money buying colors you don't need this is a good book to buy.

A must for anyone learning art.
The introduction of this book taught me more on colourmixing than three terms of adult education classes at my local high school. Fantastic and informative, with a useful layout. I would recommend this book to everyone with artistic inclinations.

Super Guide for Colors
This book will makes your life easier by guiding you in choosing the right ccolor combinations to reach the desired hue.

It is simple to use and accurate; don't waste your art supplies by mixing the wrong colors.Great for people like me, afraid of color. ... Read more

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This book thoroughly explores these mediums in a clear, detailed manner suitable for artists at all stages of their craft. Art Workshop: Oils & Acrylics is a complete guide to all the materials, techniques and methods, and also contains inspirational practical projects to follow. ... Read more

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Intended for enthusiastic beginners and practising artists alike, this book shows you everything you need to know about still life. Easy-to-follow projects instruct you in essentials, such as how different type of materials work, and aim to inspire you to tackle more complex techniques. This book is one of a series of titles which range from acrylic figure to oil portrait and from pastel life to water-colour landscape. It offers close up step-by-step photographs which show still life being created before your eyes and it lets you into the secrets of how professional artists produce their work. ... Read more

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Handy Helper
This book focuses in well on different aspects and teaches you new techniques in easy to follow instructions. ... Read more

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A complete guide to artist's materials, including paint, brushes, additives, gels, pastes, support, varnish, easels and much more. ... Read more

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Glossy, pictorial covered hardback, 9 1/2" X 12 1/4". A how-to book for artists. Copyright 1990 by Regency House, this edition produced in 1995 for Shooting Star Press. Beautiful color illustrations throughout. ... Read more

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Painting course: Intro to drawing, watercolour, gouache and tempera
I recently enrolled in a drawing/painting class and have since purchased many Painting course books as a supplement to help me while I'm not in the classroom. Most of the books I purchased are sitting on the shelf now because I have chosen to use this particular one almost exclusively. Many authors are teaching the same stuff but this one makes the most sense. I can apply his methods with instant success !!! ... Read more

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This compilation of projects from some of the most popular titles in the Walter Foster How to Draw and Paint Series provides inspiration and instruction on every aspect of oil painting. From the fundamentals to special tips and advanced techniques, The Art of Oil Painting is filled with step-by-step demonstrations to guide aspiring artists through the oil painting process.

All the artists in this collection have developed thier own style and approach to oil painting, so there are countless lessons to be learned from their individual and distinct perspectives. Discover how exciting painting in oil can be! ... Read more

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A complete course in oil, acrylic and gouache painting techniques, from getting started to advanced levels. ... Read more

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A complete step-by step course in painting techniques, from getting started to achieving excellence. ... Read more

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This book takes the uncertainty out of colour mixing for artists. Organised around the most popular and widely available colours for each medium, with an additional section on neutrals and flesh tones, each section presents a gallery of precise colour mixes to enable an artist to re-create what is on the page in the palette and on their work of art. Clear, concise outline of the principles of colour mixing. At-a-glance guide to more than 7500 hues and shades. Hue variations to point artists in the right direction to achive the perfect shade. ... Read more