The Practice of Oil Painting and Drawing (Dover Art Instruction)
By: Solomon J. Solomon
4.29
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This instructive volume introduces not only the techniques of oil painting but also the underlying …
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1. Constructive Anatomy: Includes Nearly 500 Illustrations (Dover Anatomy for Artists)
By: George B. Bridgman
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Countless artists and students since the 1920s have used this and other books by George B. Bridgman… read more
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2. Watchmen
By: Alan Moore , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons
4.38
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes pla… read more
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"Never despair. Never surrender."-Alan Moore, Watchmen
"It doesn’t matter how “successful"-Alan Moore, Watchmen
"I did it thirty-five minutes ago."-Alan Moore, Watchmen
"The superman exists and he's American."-Alan Moore, Watchmen
3. Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
By: John F. Carlson
4.42
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Written by a famous American painter and teacher, whose landscapes are found in many of the world's… read more
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4. Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
By: James Gurney
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
From New York Times best-selling author of the Dinotopia series, James Gurney, comes a carefully cr… read more
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"There is not a single brand of realism. Your paintings can be true to nature but emphasize different aspects of visual truth compared to another artist. The way you paint is a record of how you see. …"-James Gurney, Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
5. The Phantom of the Opera
By: Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
3.96
Format: 360 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that re… read more
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"He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love."-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"I sing only for you! Tonight I gave you my soul, and I'm dead!"-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
6. Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
By: Andrew Loomis
4.06
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
Artist Andrew Loomis writes this book for those who have graduated from the fundamentals of drawing… read more
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"Fill in the shapes with the right tones and the form takes care of itself."-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
"Take from the rest of us all that you can assimilate, that can become a part of you, but never still the small voice inside your head that whispers to you, "I like it better my way."-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
"I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally and physically, or that gave me an inkling that my courage might be strained…"-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
"As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become and artist. There is a formula, but it has not been in books. It is really plain old cou…"-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
7. Lessons in Classical Drawing: Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier
By: Juliette Aristides
4.35
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The practice of drawing distilled to its essential elements. The companion DVD enclosed inside, bea… read more
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8. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
9. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
10. L'Avare
By: Molière
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Harpagon est un vieillard odieux et avare. Avare jusqu'au ridicule, puisqu'il fait comparaitre en j… read more
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11. Figure Drawing: Design and Invention
By: Michael Hampton
4.50
Format: 182 pages,
Figure Drawing: Design and Invention is an instructional figure drawing book geared towards the nov… read more
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13. Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form
By: Eliot Goldfinger
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
The power of the image of the nude - the expressivity of the flesh - has always inspired artists. "… read more
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14. Leonardo da Vinci
By: Walter Isaacson
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A #1 New York Timesbestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creat… read more
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15. Girl with a Pearl Earring
By: Tracy Chevalier
3.55
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the … read more
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16. The Practice and Science of Drawing
By: Harold Speed
4.29
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Much of the learning to practice as well as to appreciate art is concerned with understanding the b… read more
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17. Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist
By: None
3.88
Format: None pages,
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18. How to Render: the fundamentals of light, shadow and reflectivity
By: Scott Robertson
4.62
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
This book is about the fundamentals of light, shadow and reflectivity; the focus is firmly on helpi… read more
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19. The Practice of Oil Painting and Drawing (Dover Art Instruction)
By: Solomon J. Solomon
4.29
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This instructive volume introduces not only the techniques of oil painting but also the underlying … read more
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