The winning ways of watercolor : basic techniques and methods of transparent watercolor in twenty lessons /
Rex Brandt
- New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc., c1973
- 160 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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.