Make Your Watercolors Look Professional

by Carole Katchen

Book Overview

By Carole Kitchen. ISBN 0-89134-591-4. Seventeen professional watercolor artists share their paintings, techniques and trade secrets. Learn and master the important qualities needed to paint with more... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891345914
• ISBN13: 9780891345916
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Northlight
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.9" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Intermediate to Advanced Watercolor Book

This is a Great Book ...filled with lots of Information to expand your Watercolor Journey! Well written...Great Reference and Reading!

Excellent Resource - Full of Important Trade Secrets

Carole Katchen researched the advice of a handful of specific professional watercolor painters of varying styles and analyzed their similarities and differences in regards to subject choice, paint application, color choices, mood, preplanning, tricks of the trade or absence thereof...etc. The book is not for the absolute beginner, I think, because slightly more advanced terminology is used to describe their techniques...nothing more scary than "glazing," "wet into wet," "charging," and so forth. It does assume knowledge of those types of things and does not explain them further than the term. This book clarified, in some instances, that there is no ONE way to do things. Each professional painter attacked their painting order completely differently. It was also shown clearly, however, that there are common threads and actions taken by professionals that set their work apart from the pack. Without giving away all, some are: First, simplifying into overall larger shapes and identifying focal point. using boldness, instead of weak, tentative strokes trademark of a beginner establising eye movement through the painting unity and contrast in balance for best impact using value, intensity and hue to enhance light emphasizing focal point by giving it the greatest color or value contrast This list just tells the summary, the book explains each of these and many, many more with great samples and specific techniques of how each artist accomplishes this. There are also multitudes of interesting tips and actual demos that are unique to each individual artist, too.