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This volume reveals the simple secrets to spotting promising painting ideas in photos and turning them into original still-lives, portraits, and landscapes. The author provides tips on cropping, combining elements, and simplifying compositions, as well as supplies, mixing colors, and transforming a slide or snapshot into a drawing. He includes hands-on exercises, demonstrations, and 12 step-by-step projects, all illustrated with color photos and watercolors....

Presents more than six hundred color photos of songbirds and other popular birds such as the bald eagle, tern, and woodpecker as reference for artists, along with five step-by-step art demonstrations using acrylics, watercolor, water-soluble oil, pastels, and mixed media.

"Artists who work from photographic source material need to learn how to adapt and improve in order to create a successful painting. Geoff Kersey is a master of this way of working, and here he shows how it is done. Reference photographs, colour charts and preparatory sketches are shown alongside all the finished paintings in this book, with full details of the adaptations and creative processes involved. There are plenty of clear tips and advice,...