Using the author's work as an inspiring point of departure, participants in this master class learn to work with a broad range of watermedia, pushing beyond realism to build images that have urgency and power. Readers are encouraged to take risks that will help them to abandon usual methods and embrace fresh ways of painting with watercolour, gouache, casein, acrylic, using collage, brushless methods, and many other techniques.
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Edward Betts, recipient of more than seventy exhibition awards, is represented in major museums in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Brazil, and England. He lives in Kennebunk, Maine.
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Master Class in watermedia,
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This review is from: Master Class in Watermedia: Techniques in Traditional and Experimental Painting (Paperback)
This book is an inspiration for any artists interested in mixed media and developing their skills towards non-representational painting. It is very well written and aimed at the more advanced painters in water media. Edward Betts uses his own paintings for illustrating and inspiration. This is one book that is a must for your studio bookshelf - borrowing it from the library for a quick read will not satisfy the need to return again and again to its inspirational pages.
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Not your ordinary watermedia book,
This review is from: Master Class in Watermedia: Techniques in Traditional and Experimental Painting (Paperback)
This book is not for beginners, but if you are searching for inspiration to move beyond more conventional approaches to painting in watercolor and acrylic, this might be a book worth owning. Edward Betts' observations are well-grounded in his academic experiences (at the U. of Illinois, where he went to grad school and later taught painting for many years, and at Yale, where he studied art history). As a result, he gently but insistently nudges his readers away from more traditional sorts of painting methods (although he still finds some value in doing that sort of painting from time to time, and he provides examples of such work). Betts advocates a much more experimental, abstract, painterly and, therefore, a more personal approach. Some readers may find that his painting style is not all that much to their liking, but if they keep an open mind, they still should find value in the ideas about painting that Betts articulates so well. These ideas have been around for quite a while now, but he does a fine job of explaining them to those readers who still think of painting in more traditional, illustrative terms. Betts challenges such painters to create art that is distinctive and inspired, rather than imitative and predictable.
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What a wonderful book.Better than a class. Not a step by step kind of book, but one to give you good solid art methods so you can explore in your own style. It opened my mind. I haven't been this excited about my work in ages. Thank you Edward Betts for sharing your wisdom.
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Under its original title, Master Class in Watercolor, this book was first published in 1975 and went through two additional printings in 1979 and 1981. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Under its original title, Master Class in Watercolor, this book was first published in 1975 and went through two additional printings in 1979 and 1981. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fixative blower, diluted acrylic medium, improvisational painting, collage sketch, illustration hoard, collage shapes, painting knife, quarry forms, gloss medium, modeling paste, transparent watercolor, illustration board, acrylic gesso, opaque media, paint rag, collage papers, acrylic colors, ink roller, color planes, picture surface Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Outermost House (Penguin nature library) by Henry Beston on page 50
- A Treatise on Painting (Great Minds Series) by Leonardo da Vinci on page 47
- Point Lobos by Robinson Jeffers on page 50
- Master Class in Watercolor by Edward H. Betts in Front Matter
- Collage Techniques: A Guide for Artists and Illustrators by Gerald Brommer in Back Matter
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