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Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports

A practical guide to drawing and painting surfaces -- from canvas and paper to textiles and woods
By Elizabeth T. Gilbert
Series: Artist Toolbox
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Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports explores a broad spectrum of drawing and painting surfaces, revealing how each uniquely influences texture, brightness, colour, and durability in artwork. It covers essential supports including canvas, paper, panels, textiles, metal, glass, and stone. The book offers practical tips on preparing surfaces, working effectively with various media, and protecting finished pieces. Filled with visual examples, tutorials, and demonstrations, it guides artists through graphite, coloured pencils, charcoal, pastel, and painting techniques across multiple supports.
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This book is ideal for beginning artists seeking a solid understanding of essential surfaces and supports for drawing and painting, as well as artists wishing to expand their knowledge of how different media interact with varied materials.

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Surfaces & Supports is the third title in Walter Foster Publishings valuable Artist Toolbox series. Explore the differences between a wide range of drawing and painting surfaces, as well as the effects that a variety of artistic media have on each.

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Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports explores a wide range of drawing and painting surfaces and the unique effects they have on a variety of media. The surface you draw or paint on impacts everything in your artwork, from its texture and brightness to its colour and durability. Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports covers the drawing and painting surfaces and supports that all artists should know.

With this art book, you'll learn the basics and finer points of working on:

  • Canvas
  • Paper
  • Panels
  • Textiles
  • Metal
  • Glass
  • Stone

You'll also learn useful tips and techniques for preparing supports to receive media, see how to work with different media on each support, and discover the most effective way to protect your finished artwork.

Artist Toolbox: Surfaces & Supports is packed with visual examples, step-by-step tutorials, and demonstrations on the practical aspects of working with graphite and coloured pencils; charcoal and pastel; and watercolour, acrylic, and oil paints. With this reference guide that no artist's library should be without, you can also learn how each support will take a medium.

The Artist Toolbox series presents practical reference guides designed for beginning artists interested in fully understanding the focus and function of essential art tools of the trade.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781633226081

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 March 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Walter Foster Publishing

Illustration: 505 color photos

Contributors:

  • Contributions by Susan von Borstel
  • Contributions by Barbara Polc
  • Contributions by Blakely Little
  • Contributions by Candice Bohannon

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 165.0mm

Height: 241.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 112

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Arts & Culture Arts and Crafts Elizabeth T. Gilbert Non-Fiction Series: Artist Toolbox

About the Author

A lifelong lover of the arts, Elizabeth T. Gilbert earned a BA in English from the University of San Diego in 2003, where she also studied art and anthropology. Elizabeth spent the next eight years as an editor, a writer, and an in-house artist for Walter Foster Publishing. In 2009, she co-authored The Daily Book of Art (Walter Foster Publishing). Shes also the author of Walter Foster Publishings The Fine Artists Guide to Tools & Materials and Walter Foster Jr.s The Big Book of Art: Draw! Paint! Create! Currently, Elizabeth lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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