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Imagine an art school where more than 15 popular watercolorists teach,
and you've imagined Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About
Watercolor, a full-to-the-brim 400-page anthology of
Watson-Guptill's finest watercolor instruction from recent best-selling
authors. This treasure trove reviews the tools and materials of
watercolor, then proceeds with the color palette, color mixing, and
applied color theory. The full range of painting techniques is
presented—the fundamentals of brushwork, laying in a simple wash,
working wet-in-wet, drybrushing, masking, pouring, scratching, glazing,
and more—as well as techniques for achieving various textures like tree
bark and grass.
Unconventional approaches such as painting with
sand, collaging, and monoprinting are also covered. Different artists
explain how to understand and work effectively with value, form, light,
and shadow, as well as how to achieve good design and composition. The
basics of perspective are also explained. The book includes sections on
specific painting subjects, many with detailed step-by-step sequences.
Some are based on working from photographs and sketches, others on
painting on location and from live models. There are demonstrations of
how to paint landscapes, figures, and flowers. Each lesson focuses on a
particular technique or artistic principle, such as “Underpainting to
Capture a Certain Time of Day” and “Linking Basic Shapes to Build Your
Painting.”
All in all, for breadth and variety in both teaching
and painting styles, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About
Watercolor, is the best value in watercolor instruction
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