Everything You Need to Know About Watercolor!
It's always inspiring to stop, look back on where you've been, and see how far you've come as an artist. Hopefully your journey thus far has been an exciting and enjoyable one. This month's Main Selection will help you venture even further and deeper on the path of your own creativity.
Illustrated with big, beautiful art and exercises that inspire as well as instruct, Watercolor Wisdom contains the greatest lessons from Jo Taylor's 30+ years of painting, teaching, and studying with such masters as Edgar Whitney, Barse Miller, John Pike, Chen Chi and Charles Reid. What you see in this book is what she believes will help you most in your own journey as an artist, from time-tested color harmonies to a step-by-step approach to developing powerful compositions. Jo has distilled a tremendous amount of watercolor know-how to create a classic book on watercolor painting with strong emphasis on the principles of design.
Presented with the friendly tone of a seasoned teacher and the excitement of an artist in love with her medium, Watercolor Wisdom fuses technique, style and design--the keys to great painting.
Watercolor Wisdom will help you...
Choose the right papers to use
Discover practical suggestions, such as what to do when "the well runs dry," how to learn from your mistakes, and how to save a troubled painting.
Learn about color
Practice brushwork and texture
Use the elements of design to create beautiful and original paintings
Plan your composition
Understand value
Follow along with painting techniques in action
Exercise your watercolor skills through stimulating painting lessons
From Knowledge to Know-How
Watercolor Wisdom is not merely knowledge; it's applied know-how. You won't just learn the difference between transparent and opaque pigments, but also how to test the specific colors on your own palette and make the most of their characteristics. Beyond learning how the color wheel works, you'll find out how to arrange the paints on your palette so that color mixing becomes second nature. Beyond the principles of design, you'll focus on how the same subject becomes entirely new simply by altering the value scheme, division of space, and other design elements.
The natural evolution of an artist goes something like this: learn the rules, rebel against the rules, embrace the rules. This book will help you get to that place where you recognize rules as a way to free your creative expressions, rather than something holding you back. It will help beginners build a solid foundation, while advanced artists will discover design opportunities and evaluative approaches that will push your work beyond old boundaries.
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