Nita Engle's Teaching Book

How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself - Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects

• 144 Pages
• Published by Watson-Guptill
• Written in English
• 10.9 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches

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Nita Engle Teaching Book

How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself - Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects

In this bold, breakthrough approach to watercolor, renowned artist Nita Engle shows readers how to combine spontaneity and control to produce lively, luminescent paintings of realistic subjects. When it comes to working in watercolor, "there is no greater freedom than play." Nita Engle leads the exploration of the medium with action-filled warm-up exercises that show us how to play with paint. Step-by-step projects demonstrate how to transform loose, transparent washes into light-filled watercolors with textural effects achieved by literally throwing, squirting, pouring, spraying, and stamping color and water onto paper, and manipulating it all to gain effects that lead the artist to discover and delineate a recognizable subject. In short, this enormously popular teacher shows how to combine the looseness of pure abstraction with the focused realism of landscape painting.

Nita Engle's Book Contents:

• INTRODUCTION - Concepts, Principles, and Goals
• THE BASIC MATERIALS - My Choices and Yours
• WARM-UP EXERCISES - No Drawing, No Censors, No Rules
• WASHES OF LIGHT - Luminosity and the Importance of White Paper
• TEXTURING TECHNIQUES - Exploiting the Properties of Water
• STAMPING TECHNIQUES - Solving Texture Problems Your Own Way
• DESIGN AS AN EMOTION - Strategies, Problems, and Solutions
• PAINTING WITH LIGHT - Illumination Through Exaggeration
• WORKING OUTDOORS AND IN - Combining Two Concepts
• EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES - Seeking New Ways to Depict Reality

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