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David & Charles Charles Evans' Watercolors in a Weekend Charles Evans' Watercolors in a Weekend ISBN: 0715324683
This unique guide from well-known artist Charles Evans shows beginners how to paint a complete watercolor painting in just one weekend. Each course starts with practice exercises to be completed on the Saturday – readers are then ready to complete the full watercolor painting on the Sunday. After introducing essential materials and techniques, Charles guides you through eight popular watercolor subjects including still life, sky, buildings and flowers. Author: Charles Evans Format: paperback, 128 pgs., 8 1/2 in. x 9 in. Publisher: David & Charles, 2007
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Dover Watercolor Watercolor ISBN: 0486447839
From one of America's favorite artists comes one of the most popular watercolor books ever written. Drawing upon a lifetime of perfecting the craft he loves, author John Pike provides artists at all levels of expertise with information on everything from choosing a brush and selecting and composing subject matter to producing a variety of washes, brush strokes, and textures. The book is abundantly illustrated with 166 of the author's own famous paintings. Book specifications: paperback, 224 pgs., 8 3/8 in. x 11 in. Publisher: Dover, 2006.
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Dover Watercolor Landscapes Step-By-Step Watercolor Landscapes Step-By-Step
Watecolorists paint more landscapes than any other subject. This easy-to-follow guide, enhanced with 122 illustrations, including 60 in full color, contains all the information artists (novice and experienced alike) need to paint a successful watercolor landscape. You'll learn how to use washes, drybrush, and wet-in-wet techniques to paint mountains, rocks, and mist as well as how to apply color when painting the sky, trees, and terrain. The heart of the book can be found in seven expert step-by-step painting demonstrations that allow you to study and master every significant operation involved in rendering deciduous and evergreen trees, hills, a lake, snow and ice, clouds, and a sunset. You'll also find a wealth of helpful hints on selecting landscape subjects, composition, lighting, brushwork, and much more. Paperback, 64 pages.ISBN:486402800. DOVER
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Dover Ways with Watercolor Ways with Watercolor
Simple, direct language and 125 purposeful illustrations including 37 color plates show beginners how to handle the medium. Teacher and master watercolorist Ted Kautzky discusses color pigments, paper, and other supplies, as well as washes, strokes, and the use of accessories for special effects. Valuable instructions on composition and related subjects are interwoven throughout the text. Also included are many demonstrations and challenging practice material. Paperback book measures 8 3/8 in. x 11 in., 144 pages. Dover Publications, 2004. ISBN 0486439542
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North Light Master Disaster: Five Ways to Rescue Desperate Watercolors Master Disaster: Five Ways to Rescue Desperate Watercolors ISBN: 1581807953
Stuck? Afraid of finishing a painting for fear of "ruining" it? Longing to push your work to the next level? This book shows you how five simple steps can transform your mediocre and unfinished paintings into magnificent works of art that will do you proud Author: Susan Webb Tregay Format: hardback, 128 pgs., 8 7/8 in. x 11 1/4 in. Publisher: North Light, 2007
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Watson-Guptill How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself 144 pages ISBN-10: 0-8230-9977-6 softcover
According to author Nita Engle, "there is no greater freedom than play." Using this breakthrough approach to watercolor, Engle shows the reader how to combine spontaneity and control to produce lively, realistic subjects. Step-by-step projects illustrate how to achieve textural effects by literally throwing, stamping, squirting, pouring, and spraying color onto the paper and manipulating it until a subject presents itself These radical techniques will teach you to utilize pure abstraction to achieve the focused realism of landscape painting.
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Watson-Guptill The Tao of Watercolor; A Revolutionary Approach to the Practice of Painting The Tao of Watercolor; A Revolutionary Approach to the Practice of
The first in a series, "The Path of Painting", this book covers the five essentials of the Tao as applied to watercolor - Centering, Playfulness, Balance, Flow, and Deliberateness. Paperback, 112 pages.ISBN:823050572. WATSON-GUPTILL
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