In Masterstrokes: Watercolor you will learn about: * painting water through a study of "The Dismasted Brig" by John Sell Cotman * dramatic landscape through a study of "Stonehenge" by John Constable * painting trees through a study of "Poplars on the Banks of the Epte" by Claude Monet * the nude in a setting through a study of "After the Bath" by Pierre Bonnard * portraiture through a study of "Portrait of the Artist's Wife" by Thomas Gainsborough * painting flowers through a study of "Geraniums" by Henri Fantin-Latour * figures in landscape through a study of "The Red Canoe" by Winslow Homer 96 pages (all in color), 8 3/4 x 11 1/2. NEW IN PAPERBACK

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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.
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