Customer Reviews

The Watercolor Landscape Techniques of 23 International Artists

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I am new to watercolor painting, and I found this book to be the perfect medium between advice and inspiration. Each artist has a page of examples of their paintings, advice about painting (watercolor), and a step by step painting with explanations and photos all along. This book is full of different watercolor styles that are all inspiring. I look through this book for ideas, for a reminder that anyone can paint watercolors, and for style tips. I highly recommend this book.

If you are new to watercolor, or a watercolor artist looking for new ideas to shake up your work, this is quite an inspiring book. Landscape painting is a tremendous challenge to begin with, and watercolor can both be an excellent and incredibly difficult medium to attempt in landscape. This book shows how 23 artists with very different styles and methods tackle the subject.

Each chapter presents a different artist's work, including several completed paintings and comments from the artist on his or her approach. "Art in the Making" examples in each chapter then show how each artist creates their images, sometimes in very specific detail including colors used, brushes, papers, and step-by-step illustrations. All images are in full color. The artists' styles range from highly detailed realism to more abstract and spontaneous work. I might not like the work of each person included in this volume, but nearly everyone presents ideas that are worth considering or trying out at some point.

While this book alone may not make someone a world-famous landscape painter, it can certainly help provide inspiration and make a challenging genre more approachable.

If you wish to have a book showing you different artist's work then you will love this book, but if you buy it as a beginner artist to aid you in your quest, do not waste your money.
I bought the 'Watercolour Skies' by International artists, and that was a great book with step by step demonstrations by each artist, this was the reason I ordered this book, but was a very disappointed....don't get me wrong the book is nice to browse through....but if you are wanting it for a teaching guide...forget it!

I have enjoyed International Artist magazine for some time now and this is the second watercolor instruction book I have purchased from the publisher. This book is probably more of an intermediate book because it does not go into great detail on supplies and basic techniques. This book has step by step demonstrations by various artists from all over the world. Each artist has his or her own technique and I enjoyed reading it. It makes a nice addition to my watercolor book library.

I subscribe to the International Artist Magazine, and I have several of their artists' DVDs that I truly enjoy. This book, The Watercolor Landscape Techniques of 23 International Artists, is beautiful but not as interesting as I had hoped. I would say that 60% will be useful information for me.