Product Description

Features 12 mini-demonstrations, 7 full demonstrations and 4 before-and-after examples illustrating the use of concepts taught in the book.

Artists will learn how to take a "flat" painting and create a sense of depth using 5 different techniques to animate the composition and increase the overall depth and realism. The 5 key concepts featured are contrast, color saturation, perspective, detail and unifying washes. Readers will learn to manipulate the sense of "pushing forward" and "pulling back" using unifying washes. Readers will also find step-by-step demonstrations using techniques for all concepts, short exercises to practice these techniques, close-up details, before-and-after comparisons and samples of finished work extremely useful in conveying the importance of these key concepts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #387846 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781600610455
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Laurie Humble's watercolors have appeared in more than fifty national and international exhibitions including the American Watercolor Society, The American Artists Professional League and Watercolor USA. Her work has garnered numerous awards, and Laurie has achieved signature status in the Texas Watercolor Society (Purple Sagebrush), The National Society of Artists and the Eastern Washington Watercolor Society in addition to a number of other organizations. She has served as a juror for numerous local art competitions, and she teaches classes in watercolor, conducting workshops and offering private lessons. Learn more about Laurie at www.lauriehumble.com.

Customer Reviews

watercolor Depth
A very well written book. As a fellow watercolorist, I found the book inspiring and full of great exercises. I would recommend this book for the intermediate watercolorist. The ideas for creating depth are very helpful since value and contrast are difficult but necessary.

Watercolor Depth And Realism: 5 Simple Techniques For Adding Dimension To Your Paintings
Laurie Humble easily walks a reader through her book with her examples and techniques explained under each photo. I find this book easy to follow capturing the focal point and the idea of how to accomplish this in painting. Showing the before and after photos is very helpful to a person just learning about watercolor and for an advanced student it reinforces the technique. I also like the way Laurie uses shadowed boxes through out her book to emphasize various points that are helpful to painting a wonderful or great looking piece of art. For example "How Creative Can Color Get?", "Train Yourself to Look for Color", and "Forming an Object by Painting Around It"......

Ultra-realism and drama for your paintings
This book has some good advice on adding drama to your paintings by changing viewpoint, perspective, overlapping objects and using detail. Some of the example painting are quite eye-catching and really make you look. Everyday objects (socket wrenches, matchsticks) take on remarkable character when painted with these attitudes.

This is not a book for the beginning watercolorist. It's more suited to those who have mastered the basics and are looking for ways to add drama and punch to their artwork. It is particularly helpful for those who enjoy ultra-realism.