The many ways of water & color : watercolor, acrylic, casein, gouache, inks, mixed techniques / Leonard Brooks

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Westport, Connecticut : North Light Publishers, c1977Description: 143 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 891340106
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • ND 2420 .B76 1977
Contents:
Preface -- Watercolor ways -- The many ways of water and color -- Painting with acrylics -- Composition -- Casein and gouache -- Inks and marking pens -- Being yourself -- A summing up -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Technique and tools are important, but only as a means to expressions. Much more important is the training of the artist's eye instead of the humdrum eye. This involves choice of subject, analysis, synthesis, compositions, and such related matters as abstraction, literary values, and the rejection of the tyranny of external.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Watercolor ways -- The many ways of water and color -- Painting with acrylics -- Composition -- Casein and gouache -- Inks and marking pens -- Being yourself -- A summing up -- Bibliography -- Index.

Technique and tools are important, but only as a means to expressions. Much more important is the training of the artist's eye instead of the humdrum eye. This involves choice of subject, analysis, synthesis, compositions, and such related matters as abstraction, literary values, and the rejection of the tyranny of external.

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