The watercolor ideas book
By: Joanna Goss
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781781575680; 9781781575048
Subjects: Art; Technique; Painting; Watercolor painting; Illustrated books
Other titles: Water color ideas book
Description: "This little book is full of big ideas to inspire you to think outside your humble box of watercolors. With a new idea on every spread of the book, you will discover textures, applications, techniques, combinations of materials, and new ways of tackling the subjects you love. You will take advantage of watercolor's immediacy and find it a flexible, dynamic medium, full of artistic opportunities" --Amazon.com
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Grayscale --; title: Positioning your brush --; title: Working vertically --; title: Creating color swatches --; title: Opacity --; title: Glazing --; title: Wet in wet --; title: Line --; title: En plein air --; title: Masking --; title: Using different-sized brushes --; title: Water-soluble ink --; title: Water-soluble crayon and watercolor --; title: Exploring media --; title: Collage --; title: Color shifts --; title: Figurative --; title: Illusion of depth --; title: On-trend --; title: Dry brush --; title: Positive and negative space --; title: Perspective --; title: Salt --; title: Light and shadow --; title: Splatter textures --; title: Still life --; title: Balance --; title: Yupo paper --; title: Layering shapes --; title: Using metallic pigments --; title: Painting flowers --; title: Dioramas --; title: Photography and watercolor --; title: Fairytale and fable --; title: Embroidery and watercolor --; title: Using a flat wash to indicate dimension --; title: Complementary colors --; title: Saturated color --; title: Creating atmosphere --; title: Miniature paintings --; title: Stained girl --; title: Cast shadow --; title: Portraiture --; title: Diptych --; title: Creating character through detail --; title: Lifting off --; title: Everyday objects --; title: Directing the viewer's eye --; title: Colored pencils and watercolor --; title: Watercolor with screen-printed paper --; title: Handmade paper --; title: Stylized figures --; title: Symmetry --; title: Painting animals --; title: Digital art --; title: Painting on clayboard --; title: Monochrome --; title: Movement --; title: Warm and cool colors --; title: Stained edges --; title: Adding opaque white details --; title: Using a limited color palette --; title: Foreground --; title: Mark making --; title: Unconventional materials --; title: Painting on found paper --; title: Cityscape --; title: A painting a day --; title: Circles --; title: Watercolor, coffee, and beeswax --; title: Watercolor monoprints --; title: Sketchbooking --; title: Cyanotype --; title: Influenced by geometry --; title: Recreating fabric --; title: Marker and watercolor --; title: An artist's book --; title: Painting as process --; title: Surface design --; title: Botanical painting --; title: The rule of thirds --; title: Artist credits and author bio --; title: Acknowledgements and picture credits