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Banish boring watercolors forever! This guide gives you the "power tools" you need to transform dull, flat landscapes into robust, colorful expressions of your artistic vision. Each chapter focuses on a specific strategy for tackling tough challenges, complete with inspiring examples, hands-on demonstrations and instructional diagrams to make these strategies easy and fun to learn. Following this guide's masterful visual instruction, you'll learn how to:
Whether you're new to watercolor painting or not, this guide will empower you to push shape and color into exciting new territory. Experience the satisfaction of painting with "power tools" and enjoy immediate results in your work.
- See beyond "what you see" to develop strong foundations in every composition
- Avoid repainting, overworking and frustration by focusing on a composition's unifying elements
- Become decisive with your values for heightened interest and impact
- Quickly and easily mix a huge range of clean, rich colors–including vibrant grays and greens–with no more mud!
- Put it all together following detailed step-by-step demonstrations of complete paintings from start to finish
Whether you're new to watercolor painting or not, this guide will empower you to push shape and color into exciting new territory. Experience the satisfaction of painting with "power tools" and enjoy immediate results in your work.
About the Author
Catherine Gill is an artist of 25 years who has participated in Branching Out, a project sponsored by National Geographic involving scientists and artists jointly investigating the forest canopy. Her artwork has been featured in The Artist Magazine, Watercolor Magic, and has been exhibited throughout the world; visit her web site at www.catherinegill.com.
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Powerful Watercolor Landscapes: Tools for Painting with Impact,
This review is from: Powerful Watercolor Landscapes: Tools for Painting with Impact (Hardcover)
This book contains 37 ways to improve your watercolours. Many of these "tools" about design and colour easily apply to other mediums. The book is well-written by a skilled teacher who understands how to help students take their landscapes to the next level. The book is packed with lots of information - recommend it
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Powerful Techniques,
By Dier (BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Powerful Watercolor Landscapes: Tools for Painting with Impact (Hardcover)
I really liked this book; better yet I've put it to use and I like the results. Well worth the price. I got it shortly after an equally inspiring read ... the Art of Sketching. Both are packed with techniques and short on fluff. Ms Gill is refreshingly forthright when describing her non traditional way of thinking about the process. She provides an easy to remember approach to identifying and capturing what moved you in the first place and then goes on with equally useful techniques for brushing that feeling onto paper. These ideas would apply equally well to the carefull crafter or the spontaneous; to the bold, or the refined. This book spends little time on pigments, pallets, brushes and papers focusing instead on getting on with it. Over all the ideas felt more like guidelines than rules ... I felt permission to paint and had new tools to paint by!
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Every painter, beginning to advanced, will benefit from this book,
By N. Kreicker "Beachcomber" - Published on Amazon.com
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Bravo...finally a practical book on painting technique that provides information more valuable than my four years studying fine arts at the university! This is a true gift to those of us eager to refine our skills. The text, photos, drawings, and prolific paintings come together like a perfect dance. Artists throughout the world will find this book easy to understand. I love the binder format, too, obviously conceived by an artist.
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Great watercolor instruction book,
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I've been working in watercolor for many years and have collected many books on the subject. Not only is Catherine Gill a master in this medium, but her book is very detailed in a way that's easy to read and entertaining, too. The format is wonderful insofar that it is a spiral book and can easily be opened to a page while you're working and stay put. Her watercolors are truly powerful and beautiful and I would highly recommend this book for beginners to advanced watercolorists.
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Eureka !!,
By Jill Jacobson - Published on Amazon.com
Eureka!!! I love this book. At last - a simple yet very thorough foundation of an artist's mindset - how to see - how to think - how to build - how to create - then how to paint!! It amazes me that this book has not been written before. Painting is not just about colors and techniques; it's about how a person sees and delights in their own interpretation of the world. And this book has the keys to seeing and creating one's own delight. Now - off to paint ...... no, no, no - first to the value sketches of my mind's eye.
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