Selected for their special and outstanding talent in a specific technique category, each featured artist provides insight and background information on their painting and their creative process. Each section focuses on a specific watercolor painting technique - Light & Shadow, Texture, Composition and Color, and presents a wide range of watercolor work which addresses these areas in innovation and creative ways.
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Betty Lou Schlemm, A.W.S., D.F., has been painting for more than thirty years. Elected to the American Watercolor Society in 1964, and later elected to the Dolphin Fellowship, she has served as both regional vice-president and director of the American Watercolor Society. Ms. Schlemm is also a teacher and an author. Her painting workshops in Rockport, Massachusetts, have become renowned during the past twenty-nine years. Her book Painting with Light, published by Watson-Guptill in 1978, is a classic.
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this is a fine book with many examples of different artists. as an artist i benefit from seeing a variety of paintings and approaches to subjects. i have given copies of this to friends who are at a plateau or just "stuck" for inspiration. enjoy.
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This book has some really amazing works!! Great to have it. I do not get tired of checking it over and over again.
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This is a good book for its' variety of paintings shown and for the brief description under each one. There are technique ideas, painting methods,colors used, shadows discussed and on and on. Good inspirations and eye candy. Definitely worth the price.
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Color, of all design elements, has the greatest emotional impact. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
transparent watercolor, cold press, painting light, illustration board, watercolor pencils, alizarin crimson, limited palette Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell on page 148
- Musical Instruments by Jenny Wood on page 25
- Painting with Light by Betty Lou Schlemm in Back Matter
- Morning Glory (Lythway Large Print Series) by Pamela Street on page 8
- Watercolor Secrets for Painting Light by Betty Lou Schlemm in Back Matter
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