Secondhand Art Books

This structured course in landscape painting encourages amateur artists to paint pictures right from the start, rather than brush strokes or laying a wash. The book is divided into three...

A total of 20 pastel artists to demonstrate the versatility of pastels in this book. It provides step-by-step instructions on a wide range of pastel painting techniques. The author argues...

Absolutely the most thorough guide to pastel materials and techniques ever assembled in a single volume, this is the book for anyone working with pastels, from beginners to experienced artists...

Learn to Paint Vibrant Watercolours is a new title in the successful Learn to Paint series. Hazel Soan offers an exciting and contemporary approach to working in watercolour, the most...

How to Paint: Oils is a stunning new book that introduces the reader to the subject of oil painting. The book assumes no previous knowledge of this exciting medium, and...

Arata Iozaki is one of the most prolific and creative personalities in contemporary architecture. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, arguably the architect's masterwork, was the first in a line...

***PRE-ORDER now to secure your special edition with Billy's signature sprayed edge - available only while stock lasts and EXCLUSIVE to the first print run***'My drawings started by accident. I...

To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of different movements, periods and styles is essential to truly...

Seven chapters, ranging from furniture to pottery, porcelain and glass, are introduced by the experts from BBC1's "Antiques Roadshow", who recount their own stories from the programme and point out...

Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and...

The step-by-step guides in this series provide readers with all the information they need to master the art of drawing. All titles in the series include information on materials and...

Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance...

One of a series aimed at readers 9+ who are beginning to take an interest in hobbies. The books are intended to show readers what they can do with simple...

Read this meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness, which is also a powerful account of his life as an HIV positive man in the 1980s....

The artists have recently changed their studio to digital picture making and the book book includes imagery specially created for this publication.

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) is one of the underrated American painters and poets of the 20th century - his life experiences offering insight into both his work and time. This biography...

Whether your preferred medium is canvas or paper, wood or stone, this reasonably priced series of books for beginners demonstrates fascinating drawing, painting and design techniques for a variety of...

In 1508 Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He had been advised against doing so. The painting of the vaults was so difficult...

'Aloha, A! What begins with A? There is Antarctica, Azerbaijan, algal blooms, and alluvial fans. Astronauts appreciating awe-inspiring views of Earth from above. And these ancient Appalachian ridges in America...

"Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every human being. In her view, art is intimately...

Comprehensive, authoritative, highly readable and generously illustrated, Herbert Read's text surveys modern painting from its roots in the work of Cezanne, through Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism and Dada in the early...