Taking Risks with Watercolour - Rilegato

Trevena, Shirley

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 000713326X ISBN 13: 9780007133260

Casa editrice: Collins, 2006

Riassunto

A practical, stimulating and superbly illustrated book for intermediate watercolourists who are looking for greater challenges in their work and who are prepared to experiment with this popular medium.

Shirley Trevena’s watercolours are visually inspiring, vibrant with colour and strong in composition. This book shows what stunning results she achieves and how she does it by taking risks with watercolour. Although watercolour can be a difficult medium to handle, Shirley maintains that you get the best results if you have no sense of fear and just let yourself enjoy watercolour’s fascinating versatility.

Taking you through her paintings from the first concept to the finished watercolour, Shirley explains and illustrates her prize-winning techniques for producing luminous and colourful watercolours. She covers a wide range of topics, encouraging the reader to experiment with vibrant colour, dynamic composition, tone, and bold textures and patterns to produce exciting still life, landscape and flower paintings. She also explains what to do if things go wrong, and how to develop your paintings successfully and move on in your work.

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L'autore:

Shirley Trevena is a successful watercolour artist, internationally renowned for her paintings of still life, flowers and landscape imagery. She is a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and has won several watercolour awards – the Winsor & Newton Award and the Llewellyn Prize. Shirley regularly runs painting workshops and exhibits her work annually at the Mall Galleries, London, and The Orange Steet Gallery, Rutland.

Product Description:

A practical, stimulating, and superbly illustrated book for the intermediate watercolourist who is looking for greater challenges in their work.

Shirley Trevena's watercolours are visually inspiring, vibrant with colour and strong in composition. This book shows what stunning results she achieves and how she does it by taking risks with watercolour. Taking you thorugh her paintings from the first concept to the finished watercolour. Shirley explains and illustrates her techniques for producing exciting, luminous and colourful watercolours.

Although watercolour is a difficult medium to handle, Shirley maintains that you get the best results if you have no sense a fear and just let yourself enjoy watercolour's fascinating versaltility.

In Taking Risks with Watercolour Shirley teaches her own prize-winning techniques and encourages the reader to experiment with colour, composition and tone to produce exciting still life, landscape and flower paintings.

Contents include:

- What shall I paint?

- Composing a pictre

- Large scale and small scale

- Getting started and marking marks

- Developing the painting

- Taking risks with colour

- Experiments with tone

- Bold textures and patterns

- Getting it wrong

- Moving on

Book: Harper Collins. Hardbook. 128 pages. Colour throughout

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Collins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 000713326X
• ISBN 13: 9780007133260
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 128