Paint Radiant Realism in Watercolor, Ink & Colored Pencil: Amazon.ca: Sueellen Ross: Books

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Readers are taught to layer one medium over another in controlled stages, taking full advantage of the vividness of watercolours, the strength and contrast of ink, and the textures of coloured pencil.

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Sueellen Ross' combination of drawing and painting has all kinds of artists flocking to her workshops. Watercolorists come to learn how to set their work apart from the usual wash-upon-wash approach--and how to add dramatic details without spoiling the freshness of their washes. Pencil and pen-and-ink artists come to discover a fun and unintimidating road into painting. Whatever your medium, Ross' mixed-media technique will open new and exciting possibilities in your art.

Two complete painting demonstrations take you through each stage of the Four-Step Method: drawing, inking, painting with watercolor, and adding colored pencil. Chapter by chapter and step-by-step, you'll see how to use this method to paint:
- Cozy Interiors
- Flowers and Gardens
- Cats and Dogs
- Wild Mammals and Birds

Why limit yourself to just one medium when you can combine several for almost magical results? Learn the techniques in this book and create paintings rich with bright, crisp colors and dramatic details ... paintings that stand out ... paintings that may even be better than anything you've done before! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Without realizing it, you are probably already a mixed-media artist. Read the first page

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for intermediate to advanced artists, Dec 4 2001

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"atelierk" (Clinton,, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paint Radiant Realism in Watercolor, Ink & Colored Pencil (Hardcover)

"Paint Radiant Realism..." is one of the best art instruction books I've purchased. If you already enjoy incorporating intricate detail into your work, you will probably love it. But if you are not naturally a "detail freak", Ross's approach will probably drive you crazy.

Beginners who still need step by step guidance in even the most fundamental aspects of the various media involved (pen & ink, watercolor and colored pencil) will probably not like this book. Only those who have a strong foundation in drawing, light and shade, and value contrast will be best able to fully comprehend and utilize Ross' mixed media techniques. The two demo pieces, "Sunspot" and "Daisy Faces" clearly outline Ross' step by step approach to building depth and realism with a combination of ink, watercolor and colored pencil.

Personally, I found her use of ink to establish the darkest values, as well as her technique of using white colored pencil as a resist to save whites to be the most valuable ideas to incorporate into my own work. This, after all, is the real purpose of art instruction books. One should not buy a book in the hopes of becoming a clone of the author; rather one looks for aspects of the author's knowledge and techniques that can be incorporated into ones' own work.

Excellent book and highly recommended for experienced artists.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this book and start making money selling your paintings., Aug 19 2001

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The Artist "The Artist" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paint Radiant Realism in Watercolor, Ink & Colored Pencil (Hardcover)

This book suits realist watercolorists whose style involves creating paintings that show meticulous details to the degree of perfection. If you have achieved a reasonably good drawing skill and enjoy painting with careful brushstrokes to render likeness (as in photographic likeness), this book is right for you.

The author starts out with covering materials, the process of developing ideas, and design elements for your paintings. Through well-executed step-by-step projects, the author impresses the readers with her ability to create breathtaking paintings using ink, watercolor, and color pencils; as well as with her rendering of color, light, shadow and painting themes. The projects include painting cozy interiors, pets, flowers, gardens, and wild animals and birds.

Buy this book and start making money selling your paintings, or else I shall.

STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.

P.S. For folks that gave this book a poor review, perhaps this will help: This book is for realist watercolorists whose skills have gone beyond the doodling level of drawing. This book, in my opinion, is a real gem for intermediate artists who can even apply the presented approaches to start making and selling their paintings in mixed medium, not for beginners.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars I'm Selling Mine, May 31 2001

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I. Gross Georg "imgeorg" (Edmond, Oklahoma USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paint Radiant Realism in Watercolor, Ink & Colored Pencil (Hardcover)

From a purely instructional standpoint, I was disappointed for many reasons. I would have liked to have seen the chapter on developing your ideas expounded upon. I mean it was beneficial for me to see how reference photos were used to develop an idea for a painting, but it definitely skips some steps. In my opinion, if you're writing a book on watercolor technique, and you have a chapter in it that describes what paper to get, which brushes to use, which colors to start with, which pencils to buy, how to transfer a sketch onto the watercolor paper, etc., one can easily assume that this book was written for someone who doesn't use the medium much. So, I bought the book with the assumption that I would be TAUGHT something. But at the level I work at, I need step-by-step instruction, rather than a quick gloss-over of key concepts. I also believe the author could have used less complicated subjects for her examples. The intricacy of her "Daisy Faces" alone would discourage anybody from following along. Consequently, I never got past the first chapter. Also, I would have liked some examples of painting people, not animals and landscape.

I feel this book would have been better off as a showcase/portfolio for the artist, rather than trying to use her work as a tutorial suggesting that "you too can do this", because I'm afraid I can't. Her level of expertise takes years, and that's something they forget to point out in the copy describing the book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars You see, I am not much of a cat person...
Therefore, I could care less about how many cats were drawn in the book. However, this is an excellent book.

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4.0 out of 5 stars this book can be a useful tool
I hate to see this book get a bad rap because it is full of information.