Mastering Glazing Techniques in Watercolor: how to Make Your Paintings Glow - Hardcover

Rankin, Don

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823030245 ISBN 13: 9780823030248

Publisher: Watson-Guptill, 1988

Synopsis

This guide includes information on developing the process through small watercolor studies, understanding neutrals, and developing a successful underpainting to build texture and establish forms

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

With watercolor light cannot be accurately interpreted unless the artist knows how to develop light and shade through the use of a controlled series of washes, referred to as the "indirect," or "glazing," technique.  Although the results of this method are exquisitely beautiful and diverse, most artists continue to think that watercolor requires the traditional approach of rapid execution -with all its accompanying risks.  Mastering Glazing Techniques in Watercolor offers an alternative to this traditional view by showing how paintings radiant with depth of color and intricate texture can be achieved by carefully building up layers of transparent washes.  Don Rankin, a noted artist and teacher, maintains that learning to apply watercolor through the glazing process gives artists more control over the execution of their paintings.  By using layers of pigment, subtle nuances of light and color can be achieved that are impossible to duplicate in any other way.
Mastering Glazing Techniques in Watercolor is the first authoritative book on mastering the glazing technique.

About this edition

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0823030245
• ISBN 13: 9780823030248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144