Natural Watercolors: Painting from Nature Made Easy
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.81 (784 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0715311689 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
From Library Journal Taylor has an exquisite way with watercolors and can describe in detail how he does it. . Paul Riley's Intimate Landscapes: How To Paint Close-Up Views in Watercolors (LJ 11/15/97) covers the same genre in a much more comprehensive and successful manner.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Unfortunately, his prose style is very dry, and he is stuck with a book format that works against him. The layout for the step-by-step demonstrations is cramped, making the reproductions too small to be useful
Great for artists of all levels Love the step by step demonstrations showing how paintings are built up with underwash. Covers indoor and outdoor subjects.Another great Richard Taylor book.. Natural Watercolors I kept checking this out of our local library until I finally decided I needed to buy one. The pictures alone are beautiful and I think the instruction for beginning watercolor are simple enough to understand. I really like everything about it and recommend it to anyone who is a beginner or a little more accomplished. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.. Wonderful Book Carol Lagrow This watercolor book is a favorite of mine. The author describes and shows ways to do watercolor for everyone from the beginner to advanced painter. He gives demos that are interesting, informative and fun to do. I have used this book as reference over and over again and always will.
Richard Taylor is a well-known artist and author who specialises in watercolour techniques. Richard teaches and demonstrates regularly and his work has been exhibited in galleries throughout Britain including the Mall Gaileries, London. He has written a number of practical art books and is an established contributor to the leisure painting press. He lives in Clacton-
With fully annotated sketches, working illustrations and step-by-step demonstrations he explores all kinds of indoor and outdoor subjects. Strating out with simple studies of leaves, fruit and flowers, the author looks at the materials and basic techniques needed for natural watercolour painting, and suggests some simple exercises for creating realistic form and effective composition. Detailed information on special techniques and suitable palettes is also provided throughout.. He moves on to demonstrate how to paint a wide range of natural subjects by cleverly breaking them down into their substructures, then illustrating the gradual development