- Hardcover: 134 pages
- Publisher: North Light Books (June 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0891343385
- ISBN-13: 978-0891343387
- Product Dimensions: 28.2 x 21.8 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 816 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #5 in Books > Arts & Photography > Painting > Oil Painting
- #14 in Books > Arts & Photography > Instructional & How-To > Using Color
- #47 in Books > Arts & Photography > Instructional & How-To > Watercolor Painting
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Roland Roycraft's watercolor paintings are highly regarded for their sparking, atmospheric qualities. Artists can bring this glowing quality to their own work by experimenting with the masking and paint pouring techniques that make his art unique. They'll see first-hand how to capture the glinting light of snow, the glow of a sunset or the sparkle of sunlight on water. Roland's pouring technique is perfect for capturing subtle color variations found in foliage, skies or water. And because pouring causes the color to tint rather than cover the paper, the colors remain brilliant - even when as many as ten to fifteen layers have been applied. Watercolor artists will be delighted with how his masking techniques allow for an even greater freedom in their paintings.
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About the Author
Roland Roycraft spent 35 years as a commercial artist and art director with work appearing in national publications such as Saturday Evening Post, Life and Look. He is the author of the best-selling Fill Your Watercolors with Light and Color and teaches popular watercolor workshops throughout the United States.
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Watercolor is the perfect medium for expressing your emotions because it's so free-flowing and spontaneous. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Light up your paintings big time,
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This review is from: Fill Your Watercolors with Light and Color (Paperback)
Wow! Where was THIS watercolor book hiding? The techniques Roland Roycraft shares here are seemingly easy; splashing or flowing paint onto paper, masking and more. He also gives some very good hints for composition with clear details. Also value sketches (black and white, showing the density of darks and lights. This is a valuable technique for painters.) I may not choose to imitate Roycraft's style, but I sure will be incorporating these techniques into my next paintings. If you want to improve your watercolor, I can't recommend this book and his other book on nature enough. They are just great.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews) 29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Atmospheric Paintings,
By hamsterdance - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fill Your Watercolors With Light and Color (Hardcover)
This is a good book for seeing what effective use of masking can do for a painting. Mr. Roycraft's use of masking is an integral (if not THE prime) technique for creating the numerous paintings demonstrated in this book. The other technique he uses is pouring the watercolors onto the surface rather than painting most of it with a brush.This is not a painting method for anyone not willing or able to know precisely all the places to mask. The sparkling waves of an ocean in one of his paintings must have taken quite some time to mask and most likely needed a detailed pencil sketch beforehand. While the pouring is imprecise the masking is not. The book has 1 chapter that gives a step-by-step demonstration of his pouring method. One can tell from some paintings produced that this can be a time-consuming method of producing watercolor paintings if the subject matter is intricate or detailed although the results are breathtaking. I would like to see more demonstrations from Mr. Roycraft and perhaps more details about the masking as part of the process. Statements such as "I masked only the light areas before beginning the painting. This is negative painting in reverse and makes a beautiful abstract pattern." show the thought that guides the final results. Most of the book shows paintings in a semi-finished state with the final result and some comments on the process and thoughts in creating it. I liked this book very much and would recommend it to any watermedia painter because it helps thinking in terms of positive and negative shapes and light. It also introduces a unique way of painting with watercolors which I suspect would work with fluid acrylics as well. 14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Light up your paintings big time,
By Joanna Daneman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fill Your Watercolors with Light and Color (Paperback)
Wow! Where was THIS watercolor book hiding? The techniques Roland Roycraft shares here are seemingly easy; splashing or flowing paint onto paper, masking and more. He also gives some very good hints for composition with clear details. Also value sketches (black and white, showing the density of darks and lights. This is a valuable technique for painters.) I may not choose to imitate Roycraft's style, but I sure will be incorporating these techniques into my next paintings. If you want to improve your watercolor, I can't recommend this book and his other book on nature enough. They are just great. 10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
wonderful atomshere, superior technique,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fill Your Watercolors With Light and Color (Hardcover)
The book amazes me a lot. I particularly like the effect of the pouring. It seems difficult to learn, how to control the color flowing smoothly across the desired area? Is it time-consuming to prepare the masking(questions for Mr. Roland Rycraft) I would like to know some details of the procedure.
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