The winning ways of watercolor : basic techniques and methods of transparent watercolor in twenty lessons / Rex Brandt

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc., c1973Description: 160 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 442214049
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • ND 2430 .B73 1973
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction,Artist as student -- Materials and equipment -- Questions about materials and equipment -- The first ten lessons: techniques: 1. Exploring pigment and water ; 2. Pigment potentials ; 3. Flat washes ; 4. Graded washes ; 5. Glazes ; 6. Brush line ; 7. Brush line combinations ; 8. Drybrush ; 9. Wet-into-wet ; Questions when starting to paint ; 10. Auxilliary techniques and inventions -- Ten lessons in method : the ways of transparent watercolor : 11. Wash composition in four values ; 12. Compositional studies in monochrome ; 13. Composition from nature: flat values ; 14. Exercises in value planning ; 15. Gray: the amalgam ; 16. Make positive use of negative space ; 17. Relating color and value: the illusion of light ; 18. Creative calligraphy ; 19. Trees and foliage ; 20. The techniques in combination -- Towards more exciting watercolor gradation -- Presentation: mat and frame -- Questions about presentation -- Index.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Architecture General Circulation Architecture GC ND 2430 .B73 1973 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000017174

Includes index.

Foreword -- Introduction,Artist as student -- Materials and equipment -- Questions about materials and equipment -- The first ten lessons: techniques: 1. Exploring pigment and water ; 2. Pigment potentials ; 3. Flat washes ; 4. Graded washes ; 5. Glazes ; 6. Brush line ; 7. Brush line combinations ; 8. Drybrush ; 9. Wet-into-wet ; Questions when starting to paint ; 10. Auxilliary techniques and inventions -- Ten lessons in method : the ways of transparent watercolor : 11. Wash composition in four values ; 12. Compositional studies in monochrome ; 13. Composition from nature: flat values ; 14. Exercises in value planning ; 15. Gray: the amalgam ; 16. Make positive use of negative space ; 17. Relating color and value: the illusion of light ; 18. Creative calligraphy ; 19. Trees and foliage ; 20. The techniques in combination -- Towards more exciting watercolor gradation -- Presentation: mat and frame -- Questions about presentation -- Index.

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