This liberating guide to pouring transparent watercolour makes this unusual technique achievable and enjoyable. Here, the author breaks down her innovative 'pouring' process with visual guidance that includes: beginning-to-end instruction; four full-length demos and multiple mini-demos that show how to build strong light-based compositions; detailed shots to create transparent colour and translucent glazes; design summary sidebars; and, paintings from contributing artists that show how to apply this technique to many different styles. Watercolourists of all levels will learn to capture the elusive qualities of light in their own work.
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Jean Grastorf is a well-known watercolour workshop instructor. Her paintings have won numerous awards and are featured in many exhibitions and private collections.
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Jean Grastorf has a lovely style of watercolour that's characterized by beautiful undulating washes of radiant colours. A good example is the wall of the building on the book's cover art. In this technique book, she shows how she does just that with some in depth tutorials. The few chapters in the book covers a few areas. Chapter 1 covers the basic materials you need, just like most books. She uses the Da Vinci brand of watercolours. Chapter two is on the designing and composition. Chapter 3 is on understanding colour theory. Chapter 4 covers her techniques and the last chapter has her guided demonstrations. The text is concise and packed with lots of drawing tips and techniques. It covers some basics but it really complements what you already know of watercolour. So this book is best for those already with some basic knowledge of watercolours. Her style of painting involves literally pouring watercolours onto paper. She does that to create beautiful soft transitions of colours for her backgrounds or subjects. These colours when required, form the layer beneath for further glazing. She uses a lot of masking and glazing, sometimes applying up to 3 layers of mask. As you can tell, her process is well planned and meticulous. It's a style that requires more preparation and patience than usual watercolour paintings. The examples of her paintings in the book are gorgeous. I wish she would publish a separate art book just for that. There are also other artists whose paintings are used when talking about certain lesson points. This is a very insightful and inspiring book. Highly recommended to watercolour lovers. (There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
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I found Jean Grastorf's book to be well-written. Her "how to" presentation of her painting methods and materials were presented in a very clear step-by-step approach. The accompanying illustrations were very helpful. Her two DVDs also available through Amazon, "Creating Texture in Transparent Watercolor with Jean Grastorf" and "Pouring Transparent Watercolor with Jean Grastorf" were two of the best filmed art DVDs that I have seen.
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Incredible book written by a consumate professional. If you want to learn how to paint perfect watercolors, even if like me, you are not very good at them, this is the technique for you.
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