How to Paint From Brush to Palette Knives: Learn to Paint Like the Masters with Broken Color and Luscious Texture

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Want to paint with luscious texture and broken color but just cant seem to break free? Then this instructional painting book is for you! Award winning painter, author and Art Chat podcast host Linda Riesenberg Fisler has been inspiring artists to break through their creative blocks with her unique painting process. This book walks you through the process with plenty of step by step instruction and comments. Riesenberg Fisler has been teaching artists to paint at the Middletown Arts Center, online at Artist Network University and through private lessons for over twenty years. Mentored originally by Kevin Macpherson, Joe Anna Arnett and George Gallo and co-founder of Artist Mentors Online, Riesenberg Fislers experience provides you with the tools needed to break down the painting process into four areas of study. She refers to these areas of study as the four pillars to creating great art: drawing, composition, understanding values and color, and adding emotion.

You will learn to draw by using two different methods that help train your eye to see drawing mistakes. After drawing, you will discover basic compositions that form the backbone of any masterpiece. You will benefit from Riesenberg Fislers study of past masters, namely Monet, Sisley, Sorolla and Fechin. You will learn how painting value studies that will enhance your skills and eyes to recognize just how strong your work is. You will learn about mastering edges. Discover how color can fool you and why you need to adhere to the values you have chosen in your value study. Discover how texture and color play key roles in keeping the viewer engaged in your painting by falling in love with your design and creativity.

But Riesenberg Fisler doesnt stop there! She has also included a chapter on marketing your artwork. Move from artist to creative entrepreneur with this helpful instruction book which contains 233 pages and over 170 images!

If you are ready to be fearless and ask yourself What If?, then this is the art instruction book for you.