Paint Lab: 52 Exercises inspired by Artists, Materials, Time, Place, and Method (Lab Series)

By Deborah Forman

Paint Lab is jam-packed with precise and experimental ideas and ideas in portray. This hands-on publication is prepared into fifty two devices, which can, yet needn't be explored on a weekly foundation. The labs could be labored on in any order, so you might turn round to benefit a brand new mixed-media procedure or be encouraged by way of a selected portray subject or software. The underlying message of this e-book is that, as an artist, you have to study and achieve services via experimentation and play. there's no wrong or right end result, relatively you can find new kinds of expression on your paintings and achieve self assurance on your skills.
 
Designed to notify and encourage new artists and re-ignite ardour for portray in skilled artists, this ebook bargains a number routines damaged down by means of topic: Who (artist-inspired), What (tools and materials), while (a time-based concept), the place (a feel of place), and the way (inspired via a method or method).  
 
Paint Lab is illustrated with wonderful full-color photographs and a number of examples of every workout. This ebook will give you a visible, non-linear method of studying portray innovations, and reinforces a enjoyable and fearless method of developing art.

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