The Absolute Beginner's Big Book of Drawing and Painting

More Than 100 Lessons in Pencil, Watercolor and Oil

Ebook
On sale Aug 12, 2014 | 400 Pages | 9781440337611

Everyone can draw and paint, including you!

Even if you have never drawn or painted before, you can start creating your own beautiful artwork. Let the Willenbrinks show you how!

Beginning with materials and basic techniques, these pages will teach you everything you need to know to get started in drawing, watercolors and oil painting. Follow along with 75+ demonstrations and mini-demonstrations as you learn how to draw and paint a wide variety of subjects: people, landscapes, buildings, still life and more. Every essential art topic is covered, from sketching and shading to composition and color. Simple step-by-step instruction and many enormously useful lessons and tips will have you making your own masterpieces in no time!

You may be an absolute beginner, but great results are absolutely within reach!
Mark and Mary Willenbrink are the husband and wife team of the internationally best selling Drawing for the Absolute Beginner, with their Absolute Beginner titles translated in more than a dozen languages. Mark and Mary enjoy teaching the fundamentals of art while encouraging everyone to “Have fun and keep up the good work!” Mark is a fine artist and art teacher who strives to do a sketch a day, while Mary is an author who loves reading, writing and spending time with family. The Willenbrinks live in southwestern Ohio with their growing number of rescue cats and dogs. View titles by Mark Willenbrink

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Everyone can draw and paint, including you!

Even if you have never drawn or painted before, you can start creating your own beautiful artwork. Let the Willenbrinks show you how!

Beginning with materials and basic techniques, these pages will teach you everything you need to know to get started in drawing, watercolors and oil painting. Follow along with 75+ demonstrations and mini-demonstrations as you learn how to draw and paint a wide variety of subjects: people, landscapes, buildings, still life and more. Every essential art topic is covered, from sketching and shading to composition and color. Simple step-by-step instruction and many enormously useful lessons and tips will have you making your own masterpieces in no time!

You may be an absolute beginner, but great results are absolutely within reach!

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Mark and Mary Willenbrink are the husband and wife team of the internationally best selling Drawing for the Absolute Beginner, with their Absolute Beginner titles translated in more than a dozen languages. Mark and Mary enjoy teaching the fundamentals of art while encouraging everyone to “Have fun and keep up the good work!” Mark is a fine artist and art teacher who strives to do a sketch a day, while Mary is an author who loves reading, writing and spending time with family. The Willenbrinks live in southwestern Ohio with their growing number of rescue cats and dogs. View titles by Mark Willenbrink