num_pages: 144
description: Recharge your creative spirit and rediscover the magic that is watercolor! Every watercolorist needs a creative kick in the pants now and then--to keep seeking inspiration when feeling uninspired to keep going when a painting has stalled to keep trying when a technique isn't easy to master...sometimes just to keep painting period.When your artistic well has run dry you must replenish it. Whether you have spent decades painting in watercolor or are just beginning the tips and secrets shared by best-selling author and artist Gordon MacKenzie provide the perfect guide when the going gets tough. Get excited about watercolor again as he shows you how  Find better approaches to a tired composition  Engage viewers more fully with color value and well-placed wee people  Reinvent a scene that outshines your reference photographs  Dramatize a landscape by focusing on the weather  Nurture your own growth by sharing what you know with othersYou don't have to paint the way you paint now. You don't have to paint what you paint now. --Gordon MacKenzie
language: English
title: The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook - Keep Painting!: A Treasury of Tips to Inspire Your Watercolor Painting Adventure
publisher: North Light Books