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Developing Style in Watercolour Ray Campbell Smith

Developing Style in Watercolour By Ray Campbell Smith

Developing Style in Watercolour by Ray Campbell Smith


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Summary

Aspiring watercolourists seeking an effective style often go about it the wrong way - commonly by trying to copy artists they admire - and this book offers them advice. It also explores the work of leading contemporary artists, and discusses their development and work in detail.

Developing Style in Watercolour Summary

Developing Style in Watercolour by Ray Campbell Smith

Style is the quality that distinguishes one painter's work from another's. Just as people evolve their own distinctive handwriting, so in time painters develop an individual style. Aspiring watercolourists seeking an effective style often go about it the wrong way - commonly by trying to copy artists they admire - and this book offers them advice. The author explains how the correct choice of materials - paper, paints and brushes - will help in the quest for genuine style. He lays particular stress on the development of fluent brushwork, on the choice of an effective but limited colour palette, and on the search for sound but original composition. Contending that timidity, tightness and the need to paint exactly what is there, are the main obstacles to the development of fluent style, the author suggests techniques and brushwork for avoiding them. The final chapter includes the work of leading contemporary artists, and discusses their development and work in detail. Ray Campbell Smith also wrote Fresh Watercolour.

Table of Contents

Materials and style; colour and style; on choosing and composing subjects; demonstration 1 - on loosening up; atmosphere and the art of suggestion; demonstration 2 - painting skies with confidence; light and the landscape; demonstration 3 - features of the landscape; artists of style.

Additional information

GOR001210320
9780715399569
071539956X
Developing Style in Watercolour by Ray Campbell Smith
Used - Very Good
Hardback
David & Charles
19920625
128
N/A
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