Fine Art & Decorative Painting encompasses all of the most popular mediums from oils to acrylic watercolour pastel drawing and charcoal. The subject matter and styles showcased include portraiture landscape seascape still life realist florals animals mixed media and abstract. Industry experts guide readers through all the essential and specialist techniques involved with learning skills of fine art from choosing and preparing a canvas to selecting the best brush and medium for the job and understanding how to achieve the painterly effects as used by the Masters.