Painting All Aspects of Water For All mediums Book - SOLD OUT - DISCONTINUED
Water is the most used and least understood of all the elements we paint. But you can master it with E. John Robinson's help.
The problem with water is that it not only moves, but it can take on so many forms from droplets of mist and fog to rain, snow, ice and bodies of water in streams, lakes and oceans. However, the most important feature of water for an artist to understand is its reflective qualities and how you can use these to your advantage to liven up any painting.
For instance, if a composition needs some balance of color from the sky to the foreground, then a well-placed puddle, or small body of water, will reflect and therefore bring color just where it is needed.
Water can convey mood simply by its form. That is: water can suggest rushing, meandering, quiet and deep, muddy, confused, falling, stale, health-giving, destructive: just about any of the moods we humans experience.
The purpose of this book is to give you knowledge of water and its special properties, and to show you expamles of the limitless ways it can be used in your painting.
E. John Robinson begins with the vital ingredients - the materials and supplies best suited for painting water in a variety of mediums. Then he shows great examples of water's reflective qualities and how to include these.
Next, he shows how to use water as a background or incidental in a composition - wet ground, wet streets, moody skies, mud puddles and tidal pools.
Finally, there is a series of chapters on major water subjects: creeks, lakes and ponds, rivers, waterfalls, bays and harbors and the surf. Each chapter is accompanied by a large size step-by-step project complete with color mixes.
Once you read what E. John has to say, your work will improve - no matter what level of artistic development you have already reached.
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Book: North Light . Hardback . 128 pages . Colour throughout