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The Art Of Watercolor Techniques and New Direction
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The Art of Watercolor offers a thorough, sequential program of mdy, presenting how to do it techniques in the context of visual ideas. Combining soutin information wah the perspective of art history, it reflects both the critic's eye and the painter at work. The methods of such artists as Homes, Sargent, Demush, and Cézanne are included in this splendid volume, which also paints a broad picture of watercolor as it is practiced
today by modern American mastery Filled with fascinating lore-like what type of paper Welliver uses, how Raffact creates his wet effects, and the pigments Pearlstein prefers-The Art of Watercolor provides complete coverage of
material concerns types of papers, recommended colors, meth ods of stretching paper, tearing and soaking paper basic wash techniques: dry vs wet paper techniques laying a flat wash, graded washes, edge shading, color layering
wet-in-wet techniques: painting into pre moistened areas, work ing on saturated paper, overpainting wet-in wet work painting the figure: figure ground relationships, nude vs. clothed poses, line and wash sketches, capturing an impression still life strategies: the single subject, modular composition, paterning and positioning, the mirror image special effects: dry-brush painting, salting, masking devices. spattering, taping.
Complete with a gallery of more than 150 works including twenty four coker plates) from leading museums and private collections. The Art of Watercolor can help you develop the skills of an accomplished watercolor ist. Discover the visual pleasures, artistic growth, and pure fun you can have with a relatively inexpensive and unique-painting medium!
Charles Le Clair is a well-known painter and teacher whose work has been exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute, the Whitney and Metropolitan Museums of Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC. He has taught at the University of Alabama. Chatham College, and Temple University, where he was dean of the Tyler School of Art for many years.
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