Download or read book The Watercolorist s Essential Notebook Landscapes written by Gordon MacKenzie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Complete Watercolorist s Essential Notebook written by Gordon MacKenzie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special 10th-anniversary collection combines two of the best-loved North Light watercolor guides available: The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook and The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook: Landscapes. Clarifying and simplifying the various aspects of painting with watercolor, Gordon MacKenzie's The Complete Watercolorist's Essential Notebook will encourage and challenge you with new possibilities. Rather than a list of rules, this is a collection of principles, concepts and general information designed to expand your creative process. Mackenzie shares with you tips, techniques, ideas and lessons for a sure path to creative fulfillment and better watercolor paintings.
Download or read book The Landscape Painter s Workbook written by Mitchell Albala and published by For Artists. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Landscape Painter's Workbook takes a modern approach to the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape painting, from accomplished artist, veteran art instructor, and established author Mitchell Albala"--
Download or read book Watercolourists Essent Notebk written by Gordon MacKenzie and published by North Light Books. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing artists with the knowledge they need to paint watercolour landscapes, this guide features easy-to-follow exercises; 30 step-by-step demonstrations; chapters focusing on basic landscape elements, such as land, water and sky; and mini demos for capturing important details, including trees, clouds, sunsets, and more.
Download or read book Wilderness Watercolor Landscapes written by Kolbie Blume and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practice the Art of Watercolor with this Beginner’s Guide to Picturesque Mountains, Lakes, Sunrises and More From a striking Desert Sunset Silhouette to a majestic Icelandic Waterfall to an eye-catching Magical Snowy Forest, watercolor artist Kolbie Blume’s wilderness scenes are the perfect introduction to watercolor painting. Kolbie’s step-by-step instructions make it easy to paint stunning landscapes featuring all of the key elements of wilderness painting and teach you beginner-friendly techniques for colorful skies, mountains, trees, wildflowers, oceans, lakes, and more. Each chapter teaches progressively more advanced elements, allowing you to build upon your skills as you work through the projects. And the final chapter combines all of the elements in breathtaking scenes—like a Glassy Milky Way and an Aurora Glacier Lagoon—that you’ll be proud to hang on your wall or gift to a friend or family member. With all the tips, tricks, and techniques you need to master the basics of watercolor painting and instructions on how to paint every element of nature, this collection of wilderness landscapes is the go-to guide for both beginner painters and more experienced artists looking for new subjects to paint.
Download or read book Creating Luminous Watercolor Landscapes written by Sterling Edwards and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to paint your world in watercolor…and have fun doing it! The day Sterling Edwards watched an artist paint an entire sky with three deft brushstrokes was the day he committed to trading his tiny oil brushes and photorealistic style in favor of big, bold strokes of watercolor. In the years since, he's developed not only a wonderfully fresh, luminous painting style, but also an approach that takes the intimidation out of this beautiful but often-mystifying medium. In this book, he shares both. • Initial chapters lay the foundation for successful paintings, from choosing the right brushes to achieving vibrant colors, interesting textures and strong compositions. • Step-by-step demonstrations illustrate techniques for painting rocks, skies, trees, foliage, buildings, water and other landscape elements. • An easy-to-follow, four-step painting process makes for easier starts and stronger finishes, complete with rich darks and sparkling highlights. • Eight complete painting projects cover a range of breathtaking scenes and seasons. Whether you're dipping into the medium for the first time or you're a watercolor devotee on a quest for clearer color and more personal statements, this book will help you make the most of the time you spend with brush in hand.
Download or read book Creating Watercolor Landscapes Using Photographs written by Donald W. Patterson and published by North Light Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique book, professional "house-painter"Helen Haberstroh shows artists how to capture the feeling of home in original and expressive house portraits built upon the all-important elements of perspective, texture and accuracy.
Download or read book The Watercolorist s Complete Guide to Color written by Tom Hill and published by North Light Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with the principles of colour theory, Hill presents an analysis of 40 popular pigments with important descriptions of colour temperature, transparency or opacity and degree of stain.'
Download or read book Watercolour Landscapes Made Easy written by Richard S. Taylor and published by B T Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1996 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step guide to painting skies, trees, flowers and mountains taking the beginner from selecting a palette to the finished painting.
Download or read book Powerful Watercolor Landscapes written by Catherine Gill and published by North Light Books. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: 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.
Download or read book The Watercolor Book written by David Dewey and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thorough watercoloring guide starts with an up-to-date review of the tools and techniques used by today's watercolor artists and then offers detailed lessons in basic drawing skills. 420 color, 35 b&w illustrations.
Download or read book Zoltan Szabo Paints Landscapes written by Zoltan Szabo and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this full-color sequel to his Landscape Painting in Watercolor, Zoltan Szabo shows that there is an abundance of ways to paint a landscape. This internationally acclaimed watercolorist demonstrates how to paint virtually every component of a landscape in a number of ways. He paints a rock, for example, with a split dry brush, with the palette knife, wet-in-wet, with a series of glazes, by scratching and scraping, by texturing with sponges-and by combining several of these techniques. The book contains three helpful sections. The first section, "Notes on Landscape Painting," describes how the artist selects and mixes colors, analyzes the many techniques for which Szabo is famous, and then demonstrates how to paint the seven most common landscape subjects. In these seven segments, Szabo makes valuable suggestions for painting trees; weeds, grass, and flowers; forms of the land ranging from rocks and soil to mountains and hills; still and moving water; snow, ice, and frost; skies and weather, including clouds, storms, rain, fog and mist; and finally, man-made structures. The second section, "Painting Techniques in Color," features 173 full-color studies of all these subjects. Here the reader sees fascinating close-ups that show how this famous watercolorist paints every detail of the landscape: the texture of tree bark and the intricate detail of leaves; the wispy shapes of weeds and grass, and the delicate colors of wildflowers; the bold shapes and rough textures of rocks crowned with moss; the sparkling transparent colors of water, broken by reflections of land and sky colors; the luminous lights and shadows of snow; skies ranging from clear blue to fiery sunsets. The third and final section, "Finished Paintings in Color," highlights 24 of Zoltan Szabo's finest landscapes, full-page size, and in full color. On each adjacent page, two significant sections of that painting are reproduced close to life-size so that the reader can study the painter's techniques. Zoltan Szabo Paints Landscapes is a treasury of techniques and inspiration for the advanced watercolorist. Zoltan Szabo was born in Hungary in 1928 and studied at the National Academy of Industrial Art in Budapest. He emigrated to Canada in 1949, and made a name for himself as one of Canada's foremost landscape painters. In addition to teaching workshops and seminars on watercolor painting, Szabo has exhibited his work in London, Canada, and the United States. Zoltan Szabo's paintings are found in public and private collections worldwide, including those of the prime ministers of Canada and Jamaica and in the National Gallery of Hungary. Other books by Zoltan Szabo include Landscape Painting in Watercolor, Painting Little Landscapes, and Painting Nature's Hidden Treasures. Readers interested in related titles from Zoltan Szabo will also want to see: Creative Watercolor Techniques (ISBN: 9781626541368), Landscape Painting in Watercolor (ISBN: 9781626549012), Painting Little Landscapes (ISBN: 9781626549173), Painting Nature's Hidden Treasures (ISBN: 9781626549180 ).
Download or read book Watercolors for Beginners written by Francisco Asensio Cerver and published by Konemann. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Acrylic Landscape Painting Techniques written by Hugh Greer and published by North Light Books. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with inspirational artwork and solid instruction, this guide will delight loyal acrylic painters and encourage artists from other mediums to cross over. Greer's instruction capitalizes on the brilliant colors available in acrylics and shows artists how to paint with them using proven "watercolor" and "oil" techniques. Starting with 16 mini-demos, artists are encouraged to: *Jump right in and follow step-by-step instructions for mastering techniques such as masking, splattering, underpainting, washes and more *Learn tips and tricks for rendering many elements of landscape including trees, flowers, roads and reflections The second section of the book features four complete painting demonstrations that challenge artists to exercise their new painting techniques through a variety of landscape subjects. Two demonstrations show artists how to use acrylics as an effective base for other mediums.
Download or read book Landscapes in Watercolor written by Wendon Blake and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Watercolour Triads written by Jane Blundell and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following from 'The Ultimate Mixing Palette: a World of Colours', which explored two-colour mixing using a 15-colour palette, this book looks at working with watercolour triads. The book shows triad wheels and charts for a range of triads, with sample paintings and sketches showing the triads in action. The triads are cross-referenced with mixes in the previous book.
Download or read book The Watercolorist s Essential Notebook Keep Painting written by Gordon MacKenzie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recharge your creative spirit and rediscover the magic that is watercolor! Every watercolorist needs a creative kick in the pants now and then--to keep seeking inspiration when feeling uninspired, to keep going when a painting has stalled, to keep trying when a technique isn't easy to master...sometimes just to keep painting, period. When your artistic well has run dry, you must replenish it. Whether you have spent decades painting in watercolor or are just beginning, the tips and secrets shared by best-selling author and artist Gordon MacKenzie provide the perfect guide when the going gets tough. Get excited about watercolor again as he shows you how to: • Find better approaches to a tired composition • Engage viewers more fully with color, value and well-placed "wee people" • Reinvent a scene that outshines your reference photographs • Dramatize a landscape by focusing on the weather • Nurture your own growth by sharing what you know with others "You don't have to paint the way you paint now. You don't have to paint what you paint now." --Gordon MacKenzie
