Real Art Real Easy: Teach Yourself to Paint or to Paint Better

You have never seen an art instruction book like this! For beginner to advanced, Real Art Real Easy addresses the mysterious, little understood half of what goes into painting a picture. Most art instruction is about the 'how', this is more about the 'what'. Making the step from the profusion of nature to a two dimensional design that does what you intend is a complex process. Real Art Real Easy breaks that process down into easy stages you can master. Open the book at random or start with the first of sixty-five exercises. With novel insights and powerful exercises Bissett gives you the opportunity to stretch those aesthetic muscles, some you didn't even know you had, and he makes it fun... Artistic concepts 78, 80 Cartoon art 16, 18, 20, 106 Charcoal drawing the easy way 92 Colors, the wisdom of three 68 Color wheel customized 70 Computer is a tool 82, 84, 112 Computer art software, free 84 Crayon's on the wall 14 Critiquing 120-128 Drawing basics you must know 34-38 Drawing the figure 110 Drawing with a pen 116 Elements & principles replaced 74 Freeform play 22 Landscapes in four planes 64 Map and color, what's that? 106 Memory and imagination practice 16, 20, 24-28, 118, 122-126 Modeling with five values 62 Notan as taught by Dow & me 42-60 On location 118 Photographing your art 134 Playing at art 12-30,78, 80 Process of painting 86, 88 Sculpture for painters 112, 114 Sketchbooks 138 Warm-ups, fast & fruitful 22-32 Watercolor the easy way 94 And much more! Enough to keep you busy learning for years.