Archives: Walter Foster Books
Learn to paint your favorite everyday items using watercolor, gouache, ink, pastel, and more.
From food and kitchen tools to clothing, gardening supplies, home decor, cosmetics, and more, Paint Every Little Thing will show you how to see the beauty in the everyday—and how to capture it with paint as well!
Start by learning about the supplies you will need with the help of the tools and materials section; then peruse the painting and mixed-media techniques, which include layering, blending, glazing, and more. You’ll also learn how to mix colors.
Once you’ve learned the basics, it’s time to dive into the creative prompts and step-by-step painting projects. Covering fun, appealing subjects, these include:
- Food (your favorite foods, ingredients, restaurant items, and more)
- Kitchen tools (what you cook with!)
- Clothing
- Random things from around the house
- Outside items (gardening tools, plants, and so on)
- And much more!
Throughout the book, find beautiful, original artwork. The creative prompts will inspire you to create art of your own with more open-ended suggestions, while the step-by-step projects feature complete instructions for painting in professional artist Kristine Lombardi’s trademark loose, beautiful style.
The Inspired Artist series invites art hobbyists and casual art enthusiasts to have fun learning basic art concepts, relaxing into the creative process to make art in a playful, contemporary style. Following closely after the successful first book in the series—Draw Every Little Thing—Paint Every Little Thing is the ideal resource for artists of all skill levels looking for a creative outlet in their everyday lives.
Also available from the series: Block Print for Beginners and Watercolor Painting at Home.
From Walter Foster Publishing’s popular Realistic series, which features step-by-step instructions for drawing amazingly lifelike artwork in the dynamic colored pencil medium, comes Realistic Animals in Colored Pencil.
Whether you are an aspiring or established artist, you can learn to draw your favorite animals with incredible detail and photorealism. This follow-up to Realistic Portraits in Colored Pencil and Realistic Still Life in Colored Pencil is authored and illustrated by an accomplished colored pencil artist with numerous art awards to her name.
The artwork looks complex, but it’s possible to replicate with the help of the thorough section on colored pencil techniques that opens the book. Learn how to create various effects, including:
- shading
- blending
- layering
- burnishing
- and more!
The following pages cover animal textures, such as fur, hair, eyes, tongues, and more, and how to create them. The step-by-step projects are awe-inspiring in their realism and feature popular animal subjects like dogs, cats, horses, birds, exotic animals, and more. Laid out in a way that’s easy to follow and understand, the projects are approachable and appealing for any skill level.
Whether you simply wish to gawk at amazingly photorealistic art or create your own animal portraits, Realistic Animals in Colored Pencil is the perfect resource.
Featuring illustrated tutorials for drawing 60 different familiar objects, Ten-Step Drawing: Everyday Things breaks down each subject into ten simple steps. All you need to get started is a pen or pencil and a piece of paper!
With Ten-Step Drawing: Everyday Things, learn to create an array of ordinary and familiar subjects, step by easy step. From teapots, flowers, and plants to bicycles, trees, and more, beginning artists will delight in the varied selection of subjects; as well as how easy it is to recreate them in ten simple drawing steps. Handy prompts help encourage artistic individuality and include helpful tips for drawing your own subjects and scenes. Approachable text and step-by-step drawings make learning to draw fun and easy, and the portable format allows for spontaneous drawing wherever you may be.
Designed especially for aspiring illustrators, doodlers, and art hobbyists, the fun and approachable books in the Ten-Step Drawing series encourage new artists to get acquainted with the basic principles of drawing so they can learn to create art with confidence. Ten-Step Drawing: Everyday Things is sure to encourage even the most reluctant artist to break out a sketchbook and doodle to their heart’s content. So grab a pencil and start drawing!
Also available in the Ten-Step Drawing series: Flowers, Animals, Nature, People, and Manga.
Featuring illustrated tutorials for drawing 30 different manga characters and scenes, Ten-Step Drawing: Manga breaks down each subject into ten simple steps. All you need to get started is a pen or pencil and a piece of paper!
With Ten-Step Drawing: Manga, learn to create an array of manga characters, step by easy step. From manga, chibi, and anime-style characters and scenes to mastering proportions, props, and costumes, manga lovers will delight in the varied selection of subjects; as well as how easy it is to recreate them in ten simple drawing steps. Handy prompts help encourage artistic individuality and include helpful tips for drawing your own manga characters and scenes. Approachable text and step-by-step drawings make learning to draw fun and easy, and the portable format allows for spontaneous drawing wherever you may be.
Designed especially for aspiring illustrators, doodlers, and art hobbyists, the fun and approachable books in the Ten-Step Drawing series encourage new artists to get acquainted with the basic principles of drawing so they can learn to create art with confidence. Ten-Step Drawing: Manga is sure to encourage even the most reluctant artist to break out a sketchbook and doodle to their heart’s content. So grab a pencil and start drawing!
Also available in the Ten-Step Drawing series: Flowers, Animals, Nature, People, and Everyday Things.
Calling all drawing and doodling enthusiasts! Filled with dozens of creative prompts and ideas, Doodle Menagerie: Unique Horns & Unicorns invites you to take a fun and fantastical journey through the world of unicorn mash-ups.
If you’re ready to take your creative talents to imaginative new heights, Doodle Menagerie: Unique Horns & Unicorns is just for you. This book offers tons of drawing, doodling, and coloring prompts and ideas for creating unique unicorn mash-ups. Mix and match the characters with a variety of colorful, patterned horns and manes to create a rainbow of magical unicorn creatures, including:
- Koala-corns (unicorn + koala)
- Uni-clucks (unicorn + chicken)
- Corn-dogs (unicorn + dog)
- Uni-pigs (unicorn + pig)
The combinations are endless! Whatever your age or skill level, you will enjoy creating giggle-worthy artwork using a range of mixed media.
The Doodle Menagerie series includes loads of silly creatures to draw, doodle, and mash up in order to create even more fantastical critters. Learn to work with crayon, colored pencil, marker, watercolor, and even collage to create outrageously cute drawings designed to make you laugh out loud. Follow along with the step-by-step projects or design your own silly mash-ups from scratch.
Take a fantastical journey through the world of mermaid mash-ups with this fun-filled drawing and coloring activity book.
Calling all drawing and doodling enthusiasts! Filled with tons of drawing, doodling, and coloring prompts and ideas for creating mer-mazing doodle mash-ups, Doodle Menagerie: The Mermaid’s Book of Tails will take your creative talents to imaginative new heights. Mix and match the characters with a variety of colorful, patterned tails to create a myriad of different merfolk, including:
- Mer-bots (mermaid + robot)
- Mer-garoos (mermaid + kangaroo)
- Mer-kats (mermaid + lion)
- Mer-osaurs (mermaid + dinosaur)
The combinations are endless! The book also includes an overview of art tools and materials, an intro to color theory, step-by-step drawing projects, and colorfully patterned pages for creating a mixed-media undersea collage scene.
Whatever your age or skill level, you will enjoy creating giggle-worthy artwork using a variety of different mediums.
The Doodle Menagerie series includes loads of silly creatures to draw, doodle, and mash up in order to create even more fantastical critters. Learn to work with crayon, colored pencil, marker, watercolor, and even collage to create outrageously cute drawings designed to make you laugh out loud. Follow along with the step-by-step projects or design your own silly mash-ups from scratch.
Follow these four simple steps to mix more than 450 color combinations:
- Look in the Color Guidance Index for the subject you want to paint—for example, “Sunflower Yellow.”
- Find the Color Recipe with the subject’s recipe number (“8”) and a photo of the actual paint mixture.
- Use the Color Mixing Grid to measure each paint color.
- Mix the color.
It’s that easy! You’ll also learn about color theory, color value mixing, complementary colors, graying color naturally, and mixingportrait colors.
Walter Foster’s best-selling Color Mixing Recipes series also includes Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor, Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits, and Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes. These books contain hundreds of precise color mixing combinations for realistic results, as well as two acetate grids for measuring paint units.
Follow these four simple steps to mix more than 1,500 color combinations:
- Look in the Color Index for the subject you want to paint—for example, “Broccoli.”
- Find the Color Recipe with the subject’s recipe number (“81”) and a photo of the actual paint mixture.
- Use the Color Mixing Grid to measure each paint color.
- Mix the color.
It’s that easy! You’ll also learn about color theory, mixing values, complementary colors, graying color naturally, mixing portrait colors, rendering skies and clouds, and more.
Also available from Walter Foster’s best-selling Color Mixing Recipes series: Color Mixing Recipes for Oil & Acrylic, Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor, Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits, and Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes.
Also included are a plastic color-mixing grid for measuring out paints, as well as a handy conversion chart for finding acrylic equivalents of oil paints and vice versa.
With Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits Oil – Acrylic – Watercolor and your painting materials, follow the three simple steps to mix virtually any skin tone for your portrait:
- Match a palette of skin tones from this book to your portrait subject.
- Create the Master Skin Tone Recipe for this palette using the included plastic color mixing grid to measure each paint color.
- Follow the recipes to create all the skin tones you will need to complete your portrait—from light values to shadows.
Also featured in this book:
- Color theory
- Tinting, toning, and shading
- Graying skin tones naturally
- Identifying facial planes
- Mouth, nose, and ear color tones
- Eye and hair color tones
- Watercolor skin tone recipes
With recipes for more than 500 color combinations, Color Mixing Recipes for Portraits Oil – Acrylic – Watercolor is your ultimate source for painting realistic skin, mouths, ears, noses, eyes, and hair.
Walter Foster’s best-selling Color Mixing Recipes series also includes Color Mixing Recipes for Oil and Acrylic, Color Mixing Recipes for Watercolor, and Color Mixing Recipes for Landscapes. These books contain hundreds of precise color mixing combinations for realistic results, as well as acetate grids for measuring paint units.
Doodling for Cat People sparks the imagination and spurs cat lovers to explore, experiment, and brainstorm ways to draw and doodle their favorite furry friends with a cute and clever art style.
You are perpetually covered in cat fur. Your shelves are full of feline-themed books, knickknacks, and toys. You’re not a crazy cat person. You’re a feline enthusiast! That means that you’ll love the more than 50 prompts, doodling exercises, and fun facts about cats in Doodling for Cat People. This book is designed to get your creative juices flowing—and your pen and pencil moving! Don’t think too much about the prompts; just start drawing cat-related doodles and see where your imagination takes you. There’s no such thing as a mistake in doodling!
Professional illustrator Gemma Correll’s simple, unique, and whimsical approach is sure to inspire, entertain, and guide you through doodling, regardless of your artistic skill level. Find inspiration for drawing different types of cats, cats in outfits, cats in action, and even kitty accessories in Doodling for Cat People. This book demonstrates how to draw whimsical kitties, while encouraging you to develop your own style and techniques.
Portable and interactive with plenty of doodling pages, this quirky book is perfect for any creative on-the-go cat lover. All you need to get started doodling is this book and a pencil.
The books in the Doodling for… series are designed to appeal to seasoned artists and doodle enthusiasts alike. Professional illustrator Gemma Correll packs each book with more than 50 fun and inspirational prompts, doodling exercises, and fun factoids. Her simple, unique, and whimsical approach inspires, entertains, and guides artists of all skill levels.