Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Watercolor

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Watercolor
- Marian Appellof, ed., Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Watercolor, paperback
Imagine an art school where more than 15 popular watercolorists teach, and you've imagined Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Watercolor, a full-to-the-brim 400-page anthology of Watson-Guptill's finest watercolor instruction from recent best-selling authors. This treasure trove reviews the tools and materials of watercolor, then proceeds with the color palette, color mixing, and applied color theory. The full range of painting techniques is presentedâ€”the fundamentals of brushwork, laying in a simple wash, working wet-in-wet, drybrushing, masking, pouring, scratching, glazing, and moreâ€”as well as techniques for achieving various textures like tree bark and grass.

Unconventional approaches such as painting with sand, collaging, and monoprinting are also covered. Different artists explain how to understand and work effectively with value, form, light, and shadow, as well as how to achieve good design and composition. The basics of perspective are also explained. The book includes sections on specific painting subjects, many with detailed step-by-step sequences. Some are based on working from photographs and sketches, others on painting on location and from live models. There are demonstrations of how to paint landscapes, figures, and flowers. Each lesson focuses on a particular technique or artistic principle, such as â€œUnderpainting to Capture a Certain Time of Dayâ€ and â€œLinking Basic Shapes to Build Your Painting.â€

All in all, for breadth and variety in both teaching and painting styles, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Watercolor, is the best value in watercolor instruction available today.
Country USA
Brand Watson-Guptill
Manufacturer Watson-Guptill
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1992-05-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780823056491

Country	USA
Brand	Watson-Guptill
Manufacturer	Watson-Guptill
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	1992-05-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780823056491

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Watercolor

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