How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself: Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects
Award-winning artist Nita Engle's breakthrough approach to watercolor shows readers how to combine spontaneity and control to produce glowing, realistic paintings. Her method begins with action-filled exercises that demonstrate how to play with paint, following no rules. Subsequent step-by-step projects add planning to the mix, demonstrating how to turn loose washes into light-filled watercolors with textural effects achieved by spraying, sprinkling, pouring, squirting, or stamping paint. Engle's approach, and her results, are dramatic and dynamic; now watercolor artists can create their own exciting paintings with help from How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself.
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How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself: Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects
Award-winning artist Nita Engle's breakthrough approach to watercolor shows readers how to combine spontaneity and control to produce glowing, realistic paintings. Her method begins with action-filled exercises that demonstrate how to play with paint, following no rules. Subsequent step-by-step projects add planning to the mix, demonstrating how to turn loose washes into light-filled watercolors with textural effects achieved by spraying, sprinkling, pouring, squirting, or stamping paint. Engle's approach, and her results, are dramatic and dynamic; now watercolor artists can create their own exciting paintings with help from How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself.
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How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself: Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects

How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself: Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects

by Nita Engle
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How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself: Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects

How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself: Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects

by Nita Engle

Overview

Award-winning artist Nita Engle's breakthrough approach to watercolor shows readers how to combine spontaneity and control to produce glowing, realistic paintings. Her method begins with action-filled exercises that demonstrate how to play with paint, following no rules. Subsequent step-by-step projects add planning to the mix, demonstrating how to turn loose washes into light-filled watercolors with textural effects achieved by spraying, sprinkling, pouring, squirting, or stamping paint. Engle's approach, and her results, are dramatic and dynamic; now watercolor artists can create their own exciting paintings with help from How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780823099771
Publisher: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Publication date: 07/10/2007
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 8.30(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Nita Engle, whose work appears in national magazines, is the subject of a PBS documentary, Wilderness Palette: Nita Engle in Michigan. She lives in Marquette, Michigan.
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