North Light Books

2016 Photographer’s Market: How and Where to Sell Your Photography

The Successful Photographer’s Secret!Thousands of successful photographers have trusted Photographer’s Market as a resource for growing their businesses. This edition contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date market contacts for working photographers today: magazines, book publishers, greeting card companies, stock agencies, advertising firms, contests and more.In addition to the more than 1,500 individually verified contacts, 2016 Photographer’s Market includes:A …

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No Excuses Watercolor: Painting Techniques for Sketching and Journaling

“I can’t control the paint.” “It’s not colorful enough.” “It’s intimidating!”With the fun and easy techniques in Gina Rossi Armfield’s No Excuses Watercolor, your excuses for not painting with watercolor don’t stand a chance! As you try the demonstrations and exercises, you’ll learn the techniques and tricks necessary to achieve amazing, colorful results in your artist’s sketchbook.After getting …

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CreativeGIRL: Mixed Media Techniques for an Artful Life

Find your artistic creativity with delicate doodles, big colors and lavish layers!CreativeGIRL features art projects that teach you how to draw and paint your story using pencils, watercolor paints and simple mixed-media supplies. Danielle Donaldson shows you how to draw the pretty pictures from your imagination, infuse your art with delightful color combinations and work through creative frustration …

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The Complete Watercolorist’s Essential Notebook: A treasury of watercolor secrets discovered through decades of painting and experimentation

This special 10th-anniversary collection combines two of the best-loved North Light watercolor guides available: The Watercolorist’s Essential Notebook and The Watercolorist’s Essential Notebook: Landscapes. Clarifying and simplifying the various aspects of painting with watercolor, Gordon MacKenzie’s The Complete Watercolorist’s Essential Notebook will encourage and challenge you with new possibilities.Rather than a list of rules, this is a collection …

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Splash 16 – The Best Of Watercolor: Exploring Texture

100 top artists share the tricks behind their textures!Have you ever stood fascinated before a painting, wondering, “How did they do that?” In this 16th book in the ever-popular Splash series, 100 of today’s top watercolor artists share the techniques behind the remarkable textures that bring their subjects to life. You’ll learn how to create the look of …

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Fine Art Tips with Lori McNee: Painting Techniques and Professional Advice

Lessons of a lifetime. 24 modern-day masters share secrets to their success.Since 2009, thousands of artists have flocked to Lori McNee’s FineArtTips.com for creative and professional advice. A social media guru as well as a professional artist, McNee has assembled a diverse and impressive group of today’s most popular artists to create Fine Art Tips (the book!), an …

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Acrylic Illuminations: Reflective and Luminous Acrylic Painting Techniques

50 dazzling techniques…for work that shines above the rest!From the author of the best-selling books Acrylic Revolution and Acrylic Innovation, this book blazes new creative territory with 50 techniques that harness the artistic power of light. Ranging from subtle glazing on metal leaf, to pearly sheens, to boldly colored optical effects and glossy surfboard finishes, these approaches represent …

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Painting Watercolors (First Steps)

Make your first steps in watercolor fun and rewarding! Watercolor’s vivid colors and fresh, direct brush strokes make it the most exciting way to paint. “But,” you think, “Learning to paint must be hard and frustrating.” Not with Cathy Johnson as your teacher! Here, she makes learning to paint in watercolor fun—even easy! With Painting Watercolors, you’ll learn …

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