Fill Your Watercolors with Nature’s Light

Fill Your Watercolors with Nature’s Light
Author: Roland Roycraft
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-06-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781581800395

Anyone can learn these simple and fun methods for producing outstanding watercolor landscapes and flowers. One of the reasons that Royland's first book (Fill Your Watercolors with Light & Color - over 65,000 copies sold) has been so popular is that his techniques make watercolor Fun and Successful for a great number of otherwise frustrated artists. Roland has a gift for simplifying the process of painting into a few readily understood steps. In this book, he expands the teaching of his pouring technique and goes into a bit of the underlying structure of a painting. He presents his unique way of teaching composition that (we are told) delights his workshop classes. He then presents his three-step process of painting a landscape - masking to preserve the lights, pouring on the atmosphere and spattering the textures. Next, he shows two great techniques for painting flowers, a subject that does not appear in his first book. Also included is a chapter of fun experimental techniques that readers are sure to enjoy and another chapter that answers some frequently asked questions.

Watercolor Pour It On!

Watercolor Pour It On!
Author: Jan Wallake
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Watercolor painting
ISBN: 9781581804874

Leads readers through the process of planning, preparing and applying colour glazes, covering composition, exaggeration, elimination, repetition and contrast. This book offers 30 methods for producing watercolour images, 3 basic steps to developing a painting, and 5 complete demonstrations.

Watercolor Color

Watercolor Color
Author: Ray Smith
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Color in art
ISBN: 9780789432926

Twelve art projects with step-by-step instructions and advice on materials, subjects, and methods.

Cézanne in the Studio

Cézanne in the Studio
Author: Carol Armstrong
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2004-11-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892366230

In the last years of his life Paul Cézanne produced a stunning series of watercolors, many of them sill lifes. Still Life with Blue Pot is one of these late masterpieces that is now in the collection of the Getty Museum. In Cézanne in the Study: Still Life in Watercolors, Carol Armstrong places this great painting within the context of Cezanne’s artistic and psychological development and of the history of the genre of still life in France. Still life—like the medium of watercolor—was traditionally considered to be “low” in the hierarchy of French academic paintings. Cézanne chose to ignore this hierarchy, creating monumental still-life watercolors that contained echoes of grand landscapes and even historical paintings in the manner of Poussin—the “highest” of classical art forms. In so doing he changed his still lifes with new meanings, both in terms of his own notoriously difficult personality and in the way he used the genre to explore the very process of looking at, and creating, art. Carol Armstrong’s study is a fascinating exploration of the brilliant watercolor paintings that brought Cézanne’s career to a complex, and triumphant, conclusion, The book includes new photographic studies of the Getty’s painting that allow the reader to encounter this great watercolor as never before, in all of its richness and detail.

Pouring Light

Pouring Light
Author: Jean Grastorf
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-08-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781600619120

Turn on the flow to make your paintings glow! The reward for pouring watercolor is unmistakable: radiant, brilliant, breathtaking color. Try this fun and spontaneous technique and you'll achieve remarkable results that can't be created in any other way! In Pouring Light: Layering Transparent Watercolor, artist and instructor Jean Grastorf shows you how to balance the free flow of watercolor on wet paper while maintaining control to ensure dazzling results. Try Jean's simple methods for fearless, flawless pouring, and soon you'll be creating fresh, sparkling watercolors unlike any you've ever painted! In this essential painter's guide to pouring watercolor, you'll learn how to: Achieve exquisite, translucent color with just a few paints Plan for success with a good composition Preserve vital light areas Complete every step of the painting process, through easy-to-follow mini-demos and full-length demonstrations Have fun by putting down your brushes and letting the paint do the work for you!

Watercolor Depth And Realism

Watercolor Depth And Realism
Author: Laurie Humble
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2008-12-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781600610455

Take your work to a whole new dimension Whether you are painting sweeping vistas or intimate still lifes, it's the illusion of dimension that pulls viewers in and really makes your painting pop. Now you can learn the secrets to achieving a convincing sense of depth. Award-winning artist Laurie Humble shares five essential techniques for creating an engaging, push-and-pull dynamic that will enhance your center of interest and give your artwork a realistic, three-dimensional effect. Three lessons transcend style and medium, and can be applied to any painting - either from conception or as a way of rescuing a piece that has fallen flat - for results that really stand out. 12 exercises and mini-demonstrations illustrate the basics of achieving depth and realism 6 complete, step-by-step painting projects show techniques applied to a variety of subjects 6 before-and-after examples illustrate the dramatic difference these concepts can make in a painting

Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition
Author: William Gibson
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2004-06-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141904461

'Part-detective story, part-cultural snapshot . . . all bound by Gibson's pin-sharp prose' Arena -------------- THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BLUE ANT TRILIOGY - READ ZERO HISTORY AND SPOOK COUNTRY FOR MORE Cayce Pollard has a new job. She's been offered a special project: track down the makers of an addictive online film that's lighting up the internet. Hunting the source will take her to Tokyo and Moscow and put her in the sights of Japanese hackers and Russian Mafia. She's up against those who want to control the film, to own it - who figure breaking the law is just another business strategy. The kind of people who relish turning the hunter into the hunted . . . A gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer. Part prophesy, part satire, Pattern Recognition skewers the absurdity of modern life with the lightest and most engaging of touches. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks won't be able to put this book down. -------------- 'Fast, witty and cleverly politicized' Guardian 'A big novel, full of bold ideas . . . races along like an expert thriller' GQ 'Dangerously hip. Its dialogue and characterization will amaze you. A wonderfully detailed, reckless journey of espionage and lies' USA Today 'A compelling, humane story with a sympathetic heroine searching for meaning and consolation in a post-everything world' Daily Telegraph 'Electric, profound. Gibson's descriptions of Tokyo, Russia and London are surreally spot-on' Financial Times

The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books, and Other Works on Paper

The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books, and Other Works on Paper
Author: Max Schweidler
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2006
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780892368358

Ever since its original publication in Germany in 1938, Max Schweidler's Die Instandetzung von Kupferstichen, Zeichnungen, Buchern usw has been recognized as a seminal modern text on the conservation and restoration of works on paper. To address what he saw as a woeful dearth of relevant literature and in order to assist those who have 'set themselves the goal of preserving cultural treasures, ' the noted German restorer composed a thorough technical manual covering a wide range of specific techniques, including detailed instructions on how to execute structural repairs and alterations that, if skilfully done, can be virtually undetectable. By the mid-twentieth century, curators and conservators of graphic arts, discovering a nearly invisible repair in an old master print or drawing, might comment that the object had been 'Schweidlerized.' This volume, based on the authoritative revised German edition of 1949, makes Schweidler's work available in English for the first time, in a meticulously edited and annotated critical edition. The editor's introduction places the work in its historical context and probes the philosophical issues the book raises, while some two hundred annotati

Rethinking Acrylic

Rethinking Acrylic
Author: Patti Brady
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 613
Release: 2008-12-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440319774

Have you ever walked into an art supply store, stood in front of the amazing array of acrylic products and just thrown up your hands in confusion, leaving the store without buying something new to experiment with? If you've ever wondered what to do with all those products, then this book is for you. If you've been using acrylic in traditional painting forms, in this book you'll find grand, wild and inventive manipulations of acrylic that will get your creative juices flowing. Compared to more traditional art mediums such as oil and watercolor, acrylic is still in its infancy. But what it lacks in years, it makes up for in its range of use. Acrylics appeared on the market for artists in the late 1940s as a quick-drying alternative to oil paint. In its early manifestations, it dried so quickly that more than a few brushes stuck immediately to the canvas! Although acrylic has been around for more than fifty years, incredible advances continue to be made in the research and development of acrylic polymers and pigments. These advancements are attributable not only to the efforts of a few dedicated chemists, but also to the work of an entire community devoted to acrylic. There are a lot of brilliant minds taking these minute molecules very seriously.