Painting Watercolors on Location with Tom Hill [Hardcover]

Tom Hill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1996

Artists will learn how to paint great watercolors by watching Hill transform everyday scenes into exciting watercolor compositions. This guide both inspires and instructs.

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From Library Journal

Some art instruction books have the ability to take your breath away when opened at random. This book does that. Hill, the best-selling author of The Watercolorist's Complete Guide to Color (North Light, 1992), makes an extremely strong case for leaving house or studio and working on location. In 11 detailed demonstrations, he takes us from heavily annotated photos of his locations through sketches and step-by-step layers on the way to a brilliant painting. Special sections on such fundamentals as figure painting help make this one of the finest such books in this genre.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: North Light Books; 1 edition (June 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891346341
• ISBN-13: 978-0891346340
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #824,539 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential to any watercolorist 's library!, January 9, 1999

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This review is from: Painting Watercolors on Location with Tom Hill (Hardcover)

Tom Hill's enormous talent and technique is simply and clearly displayed for any watercolorist to learn from. Photographs and the resulting paintings of eleven diffrent locations are used. From a farmhouse in mid America to a seaside English village. From a desert oasis to a high mountain lake. From a Mexican market to a hill village in Greece. Each location gives a chance to see how diffrent places with their individual light conditions, architectual features and natural wonders can be interpreted. Each location is used to illustrate how to solve composition problems, how to enhance the visual impression, and how to choose colors and values to help the artist express the impact of the location. For many of us painting on location gives us the ability to stop time. To record forever the special feelings we had for a particular time and place. Tom Hill's book helps us to better interpret those feelings in watercolor so we may share them with others.