Presents children with a basic understanding of the importance of light in art. Explores the different placement of light in eighteen famous paintings from around the world. Also provides children with relevant vocabulary for discussing the significance of light in works of art.

This book demonstrates the technique of using line and tone to create a sense of meaning, movement, and feeling in art.

Step-by-step techniques for the process of drawing light and shadow using graphite pencils and charcoal.

What better place to learn about light and dark than in art class? Children will love learning about opposites in this charming book set in a familiar location. Readers follow along as a relatable narrator and his classmates paint pictures and learn about contrasting colors. Bright illustrations and accessible text reinforce the understanding of this important aspect of early elementary curricula. Beginning readers and young listeners alike will enjoy...

Master painter Kevin Macpherson shares his bold, direct approach to capturing nature's glorious colors and luminosity in oils in complete step-by-step demonstrations.

"Capture the beauty of light in gorgeous watercolor scenes. From a lonely mountain highway bathed in midday sun and glittering city lights reflecting off a calm ocean, to a haunted house peeking out of early morning mist and a winter sunset illuminating a snowy forest, this brilliant collection of watercolor masterpieces is an essential primer on representing light in all its varied forms." -- From publisher's description.

In settings ranging from fields and mountains at daybreak to neon cityscapes at midnight, learn how to express light effects through color and value to improve and refine your drawings and paintings. Artist and urban sketcher Katie Woodward offers strategies for: Selectively translating values for maximum effect : Using your sketchbook to experiment with the effects of natural as well as artificial light : Considering many options for visual solutions...