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Watercolorist's Guide to Painting Buildings

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One of the most informative books on watercolor techniques and color theory. It covers all types of building surfaces from weathered wood to bricks and stucco. If you love painting buildings with textures this is the book to buy.

This book is well writen. Author emphasizes on colour value. After reading this book , you will know about howto use warm colours and cold colours to paint a building with a right value. However, this bood isn't a step-by-step book,the author didn't tell much about howto mix colours and howto sketch. It's good for who loves and wants to paint European-style buildings ,and an architect who wants to render his picture with watercolour.

CAN,T WAIT TO TRY SOME OF THE TECHNIQUES DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED IN THIS BOOK. YOU ARE TOLD WHAT COLORS ARE MIXED IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THE SAME RESULTS. THEY EXPLAINED HOW TO DO STUCCO ,BRICK,CORRUGATED IRON, DOORWAYS ,COURTYARDS WINDOWS ETC . HOW IMPORTANT SHADOWS ARE TO A PAINTING AND WHERE AND HOW TO ACHIEVE THEM. NOW IF ONLY I CAN DO IT.BUT I WILL HAVE FUN TRYING. DONNA DJD

This book is excellent if you are interested in painting buildings. I viewed the video from our watercolor society library and was so impressed that I purchased the book through Amazon. Excellent photos of step-by-step instruction and colors used for each painting was in the book. I highly recommend this book.

This book is excellent. Techniques are well described and lend to beautiful renderings of buildings. The most useful watercolor/building book I have found.