Watercolourists who strive to capture realism in their work will turn to this book for solutions to their colour dilemmas. From choosing a subject to avoiding "muddy" mixes, Judy Treman examines the properties of water, paper, pigment and colour and reveals how to control these components to create compositions.
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Treman is a highly accomplished watercolorist, working in a large-format, realistic style. Here, she concentrates on color theory and the unique ability of watercolor to achieve a transparent brilliance that lends work a heightened sense of reality. Unique to this volume is Treman's use of what she terms "disappearing purple." To avoid muddy colors, the bane of the medium, she paints in shadows as her first step, the opposite of the accepted method. She finds that shades of purple blend and disappear, leaving vivid, natural colors. (Old Masters, she contends, similarly used sepia as an underpainting in oils.) Limited mainly to floral still lifes, this should be added only after broader works on the same topic, like Rachel Rubin Wolf's Splash 4: The Splendor of Light (LJ 11/15/96).
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Colorful!,
This review is from: Building Brilliant Watercolors (Hardcover)
Instructive chapters beautifully illustrated by Treman cover ideas and concepts for the beginner to the advanced watercolorist. She gives watercolor basics and gradually builds to more complex instruction (composition, importance of value, mixing colors). Especially unique to Treman is her chapter on "disappearing purple" which gives insight into new concepts of shading while still maintaining fresh clean colors.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Straight stuff,
By READER 71 (saratoga springs, ny USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Building Brilliant Watercolors (Hardcover)
This is an excellent book for any level watercolorist.I have read an uncommonly large number of how-to books(being self -taught) yet still found much helpful info here. In particular,her advice to avoid using tube paints that have dried, goes against info provided by every other source I have read----but I am sure she is right. You need to read her section on this subject---worth the price of the book by itself(and I am not being paid for this)!!!
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