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 | | Watercolor Basics - Let’s Get Started (Watercolor Basics) by Jack Reid ISBN-10: 9780891348672 ISBN-10: 0-89134-867-0 ISBN-13: 9780891348672 ISBN-13: 978-0-89134-867-2 Paperback 1998-10-15 North Light Books Find Lowest Price |
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Don't know how to start? Try this book Watercolor painting can be discouraging for the beginner because of its delicate and difficult technique. A complex sketch that took a long time to develop can be ruined in two minutes when the novice painter starts putting watercolor on it, therefore wasting precious time and effort plus some expensive paper and paint. That's why Jack Reid, a fine painter with a great instructional sense, suggest approaching watercolor by learning-by-practice four basic techniques: flat wash & glazing, graded wash, wet-on-wet and dry brush. Mr. Reid proposes practicing these techniques on exercises a learner will be glad to try: nice looking pictures based on very simple sketches, appealing enough to be stimulating but simple enough to avoid lazyness and frustration. Also, the exercises proposed can be made in small format, thus relieving the distress of wasting materials that often makes the beginner repress from practicing. It's indeed a delight working on that simple projects and finding that Mr. Reid's advices do work. Along these exercises the beginner will adquire a practical knowledge about how things are done in watercolor. Once the beginner is supposed to manage the basics, the second half of the book goes into the general problems of painting: value, colour and composition. Again, every subject is accompanied by exercises of increasing difficulty that the learner may be willing to reproduce. In summary, the book is brief but worth every paragraph and illustration. It makes those of us painting for some time as self-learners to stop for a while and think seriously about changing the way we focus our work. The only doubt it poses is if Mr. Reid's approach is valid for general watercolor painting or just for "Reid-ish watercolor". Anyway, one's style can only be develop by hard work; a book can only give directions on the basics. And this book is great for that. | ||
GREAT BOOK! This book is for the "Very Beginer". It tells you what to purchase to start...ie..which brushes, what paint colors, and paper type. It then goes on to show you step by step how to use those supplies to create a picture. | ||
Great book for beginners I am teaching myself watercolor painting and this book has helped me tremendously. The step by step exercises make is so easy to learn technique and the reasons for different techniques. It has also helped me to learn to draw better. I highly recommend it to any beginner! | ||
Great tool and teaching book After looking at the library copy of Jack Reid's books on water color tecnniques, I knew it was the best way to learn and feel confident that I can do it! I had to have a copy of my own. The illustrations are great as the painting develops step-by-step, gently leading me to a new skill. Enjoyable confidence builder. Also, Mr. Reid's approach on materials is easy on the budget and makes the picture more important than the kind of brush that paints it. Styrofoam and twigs are right up my alley. | ||