Painting Flowers in Watercolor with Charles Reid

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  • Author : Charles Reid
  • Binding : Hardcover
  • EAN : 9781581800272
  • ISBN : 1581800274
  • Label : North Light Books
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : North Light Books
  • Number Of Pages : 144
  • Package Dimensions : 0.70 inches (Height) x 11.10 inches (Length) x 1.85 pounds (Weight) x 8.60 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 2001-03-15
  • Publisher : North Light Books
  • SKU : UK-15771651BF309tol
  • Studio : North Light Books
  • UPC : 035313316715

Award-winning artist Charles Reid wants his students to concentrate on three basic themes in his book Painting Flowers in Watercolor: "Keep it small. Keep it simple. Avoid overwashes." Economy is stressed throughout, as when Reid writes, "The fewer the strokes and the smaller the amount of color mixing, the fresher the painting." He explains how to get started with brushes, mixing paint, and the basics of composition and contour drawing, and provides exercises in these fundamentals. Reid then guides the watercolorist in painting fruit, vegetables, leaves, and flowers. He offers mini-demonstrations here, such as how to paint a bunch of carrots, an avocado, or slender leaf forms, and finishes with advanced, step-by-step demonstrations in composing still lifes with flowers. Experienced and beginning watercolorists will appreciate the wisdom in Reid's philosophy of "less is better." Somehow he manages to invest a bowl of yellow tulips and mixed flowers with a splashy, vibrant expressionism while expertly exploiting the blurry and translucent delicacy of the medium itself. --Mary Ribesky

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