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Watercolor Painting - A Comprehensive Approach to Mastering the Medium T Hoffmann

Watercolor Painting - A Comprehensive Approach to Mastering the Medium By T Hoffmann

Watercolor Painting - A Comprehensive Approach to Mastering the Medium by T Hoffmann


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Features artwork with a range of subjects and styles. This title offers more thoughtful, fresh and original approach to watercolour.

Watercolor Painting - A Comprehensive Approach to Mastering the Medium Summary

Watercolor Painting - A Comprehensive Approach to Mastering the Medium by T Hoffmann

It is a thoughtful and fresh approach to one of the most popular paint mediums. It emphasis on taking chances and making informed risks makes this book invaluable to serious watercolourists. It features artwork with a wide range of subjects and styles. For serious watercolourists seeking a vibrant expressive quality in their work. Watercolor Painting is designed to promote a more thoughtful, fresh and original approach to watercolour. A medium known for its beguiling ironies, watercolour takes great skill to control, yet must appear to be free of control. Throughout the book, notable artist and teacher Tom Hoffmann stressed that students of watercolour must understand that realising the potential of watercolour involves taking chances and informed risks. The key to success lies in knowing what will happen when brush touches paper.

About T Hoffmann

Tom Hoffmann is a practising artist and teacher who has been dedicated to the watercolour medium for more than 30 years. He received his BFA from Amherst College and an MA-Art Education from the University of London. His paintings have been exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum, the Frye museum, Tacoma Art Museum, The Copley Society of Boston and the Armory at Park Avenue in New York City.

Table of Contents

Watercolor Painting
Contents
Introduction: Understanding Watercolor
Chapter One: Translating a Subject into the Language of Watercolor
Being Mindful of Your Subject
Revisiting Your Purpose
Identifying the Tricky Parts
Knowing Where to Begin
Knowing When to Stop
Maintaining Intentionality with Your Marks
Recognizing What Works
Using the Language of Form
Chapter Two: Knowing What Not to Paint
Identifying the Major Shapes
Creating a Five-Value Monochrome Study
Evaluating a Simplified Study
Creating a Two-Layer Geometric Sketch
Thinking about Stopping
Creating a Three-Layer Thumbnail Sketch
Chapter Three: Seeing in Layers
Resolving an Image through Layers
Learning to Exercise Restraint
Identifying Individual Layers
Evaluating the Layers
Chapter Four: Understanding Value
Identifying the Lightest Part of the Picture
Reserving the Whites
Reserving Non-White Elements
Identifying the Darkest Part of the Picture
Bracketing the Values
Knowing How Dark You Can Go
Critiquing the Darks
Knowing When to Depart from Accuracy
Chapter Five: Sharing Control of Wetness
Working with Hard and Soft Edges
Planning the Wetness of the Paper
Providing Enough Time for Each Task
Gauging How Much Paint You Need
Gauging the Wetness of the Brush
Rewetting an Area
Knowing When to Depart from Accuracy
Chapter Six: Getting the Most out of Color
Serving Your Main Goals with Color
Evaluating Your Palette
Mixing Your Colors
Identifying the Dominant Color
Evaluating the Effects of Color Temperature
Knowing When to Depart from Accuracy
Enlivening Your Darks
Choosing Colors for Your Neutrals
Chapter Seven: Developing an Instinct for Composition
Sketching Your Subject
Translating Form into Content
Knowing When to Depart from Accuracy
Creating the Illusion of Space
Being Mindful of Abstraction
Establishing Balance
Chapter Eight: Becoming Your Own Teacher
Identifying the Qualities of a Good Teacher
Establishing Who Is in Charge
Painting for Its Own Sake
Devising Alternate Strategies
Identifying What Worked Well
Expanding Your Range
Asking the Questions
Index

Additional information

GOR010427789
9780823006731
0823006735
Watercolor Painting - A Comprehensive Approach to Mastering the Medium by T Hoffmann
Used - Like New
Paperback
Watson-Guptill Publications
2012-12-11
160
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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