Art

Looking at a work of art, like listening to music, becomes a rewarding experience only if the senses are alert to the qualities of the work and to the artist's purpose that brought them into being. The language of sculpture must be learned. In this in-depth study, readers examine the materials, tools, methods, styles, and practices that are involved in sculpting and many of the techniques that have been used by accomplished artists who have contributed to sculpture as a fine art, from the marble gods of Phidias to the mobiles by Alexander Calder.

Inspiring Techniques: With sculpture, clay provides more possibilities than any other medium. It's possible to build with any forming process and even combine other media. Many contemporary artists demonstrate some of the infinite possibilities of clay for manifesting ideas into a physical reality. Whether their sculptures are figurative or abstract, large or small, the variety is sure to inspire your creativity.

Barrington Barber brings his years of teaching experience and professional expertise to this attractive, inspirational volume. The author sets out the materials and equipment readers will need, followed by a clear and comprehensive explanation of how to use them to get the best results. All types of subject matter are covered, from still life to portraiture and large landscape compositions. Different styles of painting are also analyzed, from realism to abstraction.

Modern Acrylic delivers the simple concepts and painting techniques youll need to create exciting and expressive works of art.

Advanced Techniques: A collection of innovative and challenging techniques for the intermediate to advanced studio artist. More than 25 professional ceramic artists provide step-by-step techniques that they've spent years perfecting. From forming and decorating to meeting unique challenges, these techniques are sure to inspire and inform any serious ceramist. These are the techniques that can take your work to the next level or perhaps even in a whole new direction.

With Creative Pottery, master new techniques as you learn how to make innovative functional forms, from teapots and juicers to serving trays and cake-stands. Hand-builders and wheel-throwers welcome!

In photography, as with other visual arts, composition is the placement or arrangement of elements in an image as distinct from the subject of a work. Although it may sound cliched, the only rule in photography is that there are no rules: just a number of established guidelines that can be applied to enhance the impact of a scene. These guidelines will help you take more compelling photographs, investing them with a natural balance, drawing the viewer's attention to the important parts of the scene, or leading the eye through the image.

Numerous books on the market teach photographers how to produce a technically sound black & white landscape image. Others expound tips and tricks you can use to enhance the artistry of those images. This book takes a less-traveled path. Author Chuck Kimmerle teaches photographers who've mastered their camera controls to see the possibilities in every landscape. You'll learn how to identify a scene that lends itself to black & white (and determine which scenes just don't work), you'll explore high- and low-key presentations, the effects of various lenses, and how and when to produce straight, graphic, or interpretive presentations of your scene. You'll also learn how to create "score-and-performance" RAW image and postproduction pairings that lead to pure mastery in every finished photograph. Armed with the insights in this book, readers will learn to see, conceptualize, and create the black & white landscape images that always seemed out of reach.

This new series of Expanded Guides focuses on photographic techniques to give you a comprehensive grounding in the subject and also takes you a step further to enable you to get much more from your photography. Professional photographers give expert advice and useful hints and tips, using practical examples of techniques for clarity, all illustrated in full colour with the aid of clear diagrams and charts. Digital Black and White Photography gives advice on how to shoot black and white images on today's sophisticated digital SLR and compact digital cameras and even on mobile phones. Aimed at both the novice and more experienced amateur photographer, jargon-free text explains the theory behind digital photography, along with a guide to the equipment and software needed to take outstanding images. From the basics of exposure and good composition, file types, manipulating captured images using popular software, and applying special effects (such as split toning, simulating film grain, lith prints and using cyanotypes) a number of projects are described for photographing people, landscapes, architecture and animals. A final chapter on printing gives invaluable advice on outputting and displaying images.

Award-winning photographer and accomplished instructor Ella Putney Carlson provides a comprehensive guide to using photographs to make art using the Photoshop software. Readers will learn the creative process of making art that can be used with most raster graphics editing software. Readers will learn how to transform initial image captures into a series of art work-- in addition to specific transformative techniques and constructive concepts that help build unique images. Carlson reveals and details the inspiration for image series, how new images are assembled from original captures, layer mode techniques, and painting-layers-in methods. In addition, she covers piecing image selections, maintaining lighting consistency, delight and worth of artistic series, and much more.

Discover techniques to enhance your videos with complex animation Key Features Design, animate, and sequence a complete motion graphics project Work with compositions and pre-compositions to create animations speedily Maximize your motion graphics and visual effects skills Book Description If you're thinking seriously about making and publishing your videos with professional editing and animation, look no further! Adobe After Effects is a popular tool among video editors and YouTubers to enhance their videos and bring them to life by implementing visual effects and motion graphics. This book will take you right from the basics through to the advanced techniques in Adobe After Effects CC 2018. You will start by setting up your editing environment to learn and improve techniques to sharpen your video editing skills. Furthermore, you will work with basic and advanced special effects to create, modify, and optimize motion graphics in your videos. Lastly, you will not only learn how to create 2.5D animations, but also get to grips with using Cinema 4D Lite to build and animate complete 3D scenes. By the end of the book, you'll have learned how to package a video efficiently with the help of the projects covered. What you will learn Create a lower third project for a TV show with complex layers Work with shape layer animation to create an animated lyrics video Explore different tools to animate characters Apply text animation to create a dynamic film-opening title Use professional visual effects to create a VFX project Model, light, and composite your 3D project in After Effects Who this book is for If you're a student, professional, YouTuber, or anyone who is interested in video editing, animation, and motion graphics, this book is for you. You'll also find this resource useful if you're an Illustrator looking to put your creations in motion.