Master Strokes: Watercolor: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using the Techniques of the Masters - Softcover

Harrison, Hazel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806924098 ISBN 13: 9780806924090

Publisher: Sterling/Silver, 2001

Synopsis

Each of seven lessons provides background information on a masterpiece, discusses the work as a whole, and gives a detailed evaluation of the artist’s style. Special attention is given to watercolor techniques—including backruns, blending, brushwork, glazing, and impressing.

About this title

From Library Journal

Harrison has created two unique and exciting books based on the methods of the masters. It may seem odd at first to study an oil by Courbet to learn pastel techniques or an oil by Gainsborough to learn the art of watercolor portraiture, but it works beautifully. The core of each book focuses in detail on a series of master paintings, each chosen to illustrate a specific subject area, such as portraiture, still life, or landscape. Each is followed by a tutorial in which a contemporary artist demonstrates not how to copy the original but how to use specific techniques to create a new work. Thus, the point of analyzing Winslow Homer's "The Red Canoe" is to learn how to paint figures in a landscape in one's own work. These two books should be added to most collections to complement Ettore Maiotti's earlier fine volume, The Oil Painting Handbook: Learning from the Masters, now out of print.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sterling/Silver
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806924098
• ISBN 13: 9780806924090
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96