Glass Painting :Over a Dozen Painted Glass Projects
This book features lovely paintings on glass items, wonderful for gifts and personal use. The painting is done quickly and easily with Donna Dewberry's stress-free One Stroke Technique. Apple Barrel Colors Acrylic glass enamels are used for the painting. These paints adhere well to glass, and they can be baked in a home oven for even greater durability.
In this one fabulous book, Donna Dewberry answers all the questions about using her painting techniques on glass and ceramics. Donna teaches how to use each of her brushes, how to accomplish her special brush strokes, and how to combine them to paint flowers, leaves, bugs, butterflies, trees, and more. Also included are tips and secrets for successfully painting on clear glass and ceramic surfaces using FolkArt Enamels and the mediums especially formulated to use with these paints. 36 pages.
In Jerry Yarnell's Landscape Painting Secrets, readers will refresh their knowledge of basic acrylic painting (materials, terminology, color mixing, working with values and simple generic techniques) before mastering landscape elements that will take their painting to a new level. Intermediate to advanced landscape painting techniques will be presented in quick 4-8 step demos including water, land, trees, sky and atmospheric conditions plus readers will find 2 complete landscape scenes that they can paint step-by-step utilizing many of the techniques featured in the book.
Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 4 January 2010
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The Light That Failed
The book, which includes autobiographical elements, describes the youth and manhood of Dick Heldar and traces his efforts as a war correspondent and artist whose sketches of British battles in the Sudan become popular. When he returns to London, he begins painting his masterpiece, racing against time because a battle wound has caused his eyesight to progressively fail.
Marcel is a French mouse, and a detective. One evening, at the Louvre museum, he sees a man steal a famous painting – the Mona Lisa. Marcel follows the thief to Venice and risks his life to get the painting back again
