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Make Your Mark with Confident, Dramatic Strokes
Imagine painting with the virtuosity of the masters. With Bold Strokes, you can learn how, step by step. Beloved artist and teacher Mark Christopher Weber takes this seemingly complex manner of painting and breaks it down into simple, manageable steps that you can apply to your own style. He starts with the very basics so you can achieve success no matter what your skill level. Full-color photos and numbered steps illustrate in-depth instruction covering:
- Tools and Materials: everything you need from brushes to paint, including a section highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of both oils and acrylics
- Brushwork Basics: learn the mechanics of shaping brushes, loading paint and applying strokes for loose and expressive brushwork
- The Bold Challenge: use five basic strokes to manipulate thick paint and limit the number of overall strokes for heightened dramatic effect
- Drawing and Measuring: get a quick primer of these essential skills, plus new methods for using them to achieve bold strokes in every composition
- The Power of Suggestion: learn to identify the primary elements of your subjects so you can reduce every composition to its essential focus and place bold strokes in the most effective places
- Practice and Perfection: apply what you've learned to a range of compositions in both oils and acrylics, including landscapes, flowers, animals, portraits, figures and more so you can go forward in your own style with new vision and skill
About the Author
Mark Weber is an award-winning artist whose work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions. He is the author of Brushwork Essentials, and his work has appeared in Art from the Parks, The Majesty of the Grand Canyon, 150 Years in Art and The Artist's Magazine. He currently teaches private and group lessons in the Kansas City area.
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Bold, beautiful COLOR!!!, April 2 2009
By Girl Next Door "art lover" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bold Strokes: Dynamic Brushwork In Oils And Acrylics (Hardcover)
I love this book!!! It just arrived today and I could not put it down. New to oils, I got a good education first and foremost, and being no stranger to art, I adapted immediately to all the techniques explained! This book is a gem for those who love COLOR! The tutorials are bright and beautiful, step by step, Mark Christopher is a wonderful teacher and the basics are really all you need to create beautiful works of art that will stand the test of time. If for nothing else, buy the book for the beauty of it. :) Great that it's in hardcover too, I know I will be holding onto this one for a long time! Not enough starts on the review to give it all I wanted to! Awesome book and I would never have known about it had I not read Painter Magazine.. so thumbs up to a recommendation! Thank you Mark Weber!!!
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Disappointed in sequel to Brushwork Essentials, Jan 31 2010
By Sharon A. Coyle - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Bold Strokes: Dynamic Brushwork In Oils And Acrylics (Hardcover)
Mark's first book, Brushwork Essential is a very informative, instructional book on painting, covering a lot more than just knowledge on brushes. I love his realistic style of painting and was hoping for more insight on how to create such lovely work. Bold Strokes takes a completely different approach to painting, but uses much of the same stuff that was in the first book about loading brushes and the brand of paint he prefers.I found this book was filled with large and full page photos and a lot less text. Also many of the pages have large blank areas, making it a quick read.
To me this style of painting with it's globs and smears of paint is too unfinished and amateurish looking. The exercises give brief instruction with each photo to get you to try the various techniques and strokes, but the colors are awful.
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Bold Strokes Indeed!, Nov 30 2010
By Suches, GA - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bold Strokes: Dynamic Brushwork In Oils And Acrylics (Hardcover)
The technics are truly dynamic and help create the mood I'm trying to represent. I purchased this book years ago and reference it often.
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