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The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook [Hardcover]

Gordon Mackenzie
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Mar 1 2000

Painting with watercolors gives you endless opportunities to create the world you want. You choose whether to let the sun blaze or the rain pour, to move a maple tree here or make the trail wind over there, to subdue a hillside with quiet greens or make a forest glow with dazzling golds and reds. It's not only a matter of what to paint, but how to go about painting it.

This book examines, one at a time, the three major elements of landscape painting: water, sky and land. You will be encouraged to try numerous ways of painting each one. Then you can choose the methods that best express how the outdoors speaks to you.

Let this reliable collection of tips, techniques, ideas and lessons be your companion on a sure path to creative fulfillment and better watercolor landscapes.


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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Techniques Aug 19 2007
Format:Hardcover
Even though I've taken many watercolour classes and have painted for some time, I still learned a great deal from MacKenzie's well written, illustrated and thought-out book. Great for those just beginning, and even for those who have painted for a while and would like to learn new methods. Especially good for landscape painting. His paint comparisons and what to look for in pigments and what to avoid was an area I had not been taught about before. I highly recommend this book.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Techniques July 13 2002
By KNW
Format:Hardcover
In many ways "The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook" is similar to "Conversations in Paint", but with a focus on watercolor. It is billed as the "essential notebook" and the description is apt. The techniques are essential, though not necessarily basic and they are presented in the style of a notebook. Its a keeper.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great basic book!!! Sep 24 2002
Format:Hardcover
This book is a essential collection of tricks and techniques, you will not find complicated and very advanced techniques. It will not teach you how to paint with watercolor, but it will help you on the way.
The book is beautifully illustrated with some of the author's works and besides the tricks and painting techniques there are also lots of explanations on composition, colors and color composition and tools (how to choose your brushes, paper, palettes, paints, etc.)
There are several exercises and some watercolor problems and solutions.
It's a basic book for any watercolorist, with some tricks that one could only learn with the experience of years painting. This is the notebook I wish I had when I was learning to paint.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Big Help
This book was great. Clearly based on years of experience and teaching, it contained valuable fundamental information -particularly on painting landscapes. Read more
Published on July 16 2004 by S. Stoessel
5.0 out of 5 stars The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook
A very gifted watercolor artist, Gordon MacKenzie's talents as a teacher really come through in his book. Read more
Published on Feb 28 2003 by David W. Bigelow
1.0 out of 5 stars Major dissappointment
Simply a big dissappointment. Could perhaps be considered a good introduction to the media for an absolute beginner, but lacks depth for any serious practitioner. Read more
Published on Sep 6 2002 by Pertti Lassila
5.0 out of 5 stars Useful starter book
As a beginner with watercolor, I found this book to be very useful in becoming familiar with basic techniques. The information on pigments is especially helpful. Read more
Published on April 28 2002 by Andrea L
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Watercolorists by Gordon MacKenzie
As professional portrait artists who specialize in pastels,oils and watercolors, we ordered this book at the same time that we ordered Nita Engle's book on Experimental Techniques. Read more
Published on Jun 26 2001 by T. Filarsky
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a watercolorist's best friend!
Bought this book for my father-in-law. He takes classes with a well-known professional. He took the book to class, and most of his class ended up buying it as well. Read more
Published on Jun 8 2001
5.0 out of 5 stars Lives Up to Its Title
"The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook" is just that. On the cover it is correctly described as "a treasury of watercolor tricks and techniques discovered through... Read more
Published on Dec 21 2000 by KNW
5.0 out of 5 stars A great tool for both beginners and advanced artists
Few art reference books have so much information written so clearly. Beginners learn that their problems may be more related to poor quality materials, rather than a lack of... Read more
Published on April 25 2000 by Penny B. Kritt
5.0 out of 5 stars I love this book.
I love this book. In the 2 weeks since I purchased it, I have read it cover to cover twice,in addition to picking it up for reference frequently. Mr. Read more
Published on April 20 2000 by Jacqueline Lucier
5.0 out of 5 stars If You Can Only Have ONE Watercolor Reference Book.....
If I were to reduce my not-inconsiderable watercolor reference library to just one book, this would be that book. It blew me away! Read more
Published on April 7 2000 by Pamela Slatt Fagelson
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