Expressive Portraits: Creative Methods for Painting People (Hardcover)

by Jean Pederson (Author)

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Product Description
Paint beautiful and expressive portraits by combining watercolor with other mediums!

What makes an eye-popping, eye-stopping portrait? It's all about contrast and the play of opposites, round shape against square, light against dark, transparent with opaque. Combining mediums allows you to push the inherent properties of each for a lively play of opposites. You'll be able to paint glorious lights, richer darks, intriguing texture and mysterious passages that create mood and a strong sense of place, space and character. Jean Pederson gives you all the advice and instruction you need to paint beautiful, expressive portraits filled with life and spirit. Let your portraits speak to the world!

About the Author
Jean Pederson is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, The Federation of Canadian Artists and the Alberta Society of Artists. She is a popular workshop instructor and also teaches water mediums at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. She is an award-winning artist of international acclaim, with work placed in the Royal Collection in Winsor, England. Her paintings have been exhibited in London, Stockholm, New York, San Francisco, Mexico, and across Canada. She is a contributing editor to The Artist's Magazine and her paintings have been featured in Splash 8, 9, and 10, The Artist's Magazine and Watercolor Magic.

She resides in Calgary, Alberta with her husband and two sons.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: North Light Books; illustrated edition edition (November 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581809530
• ISBN-13: 978-1581809534
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #118,825 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring!, February 6, 2008

By	L Guiot ":O)" (The Woodlands, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This is a nice inspiring book. I just don't give it 5 stars because i was expecting to find skin color recipes and the step by step demonstrations are not too specific to follow them.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic! But had hoped the mediums were different..., February 13, 2008

By	Romeocar (Texas) - See all my reviews

What an amazing artist. I love her contemporary take on portraiture. I'm hoping to adapt her techniques to acrylics or oils on board and/or canvas, rather than watercolor and gouache on paper. She does use some acrylics however, and overall I give this a thumbs-up. Very inspiring!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Expressive Portraits, March 11, 2008

By	Gina "Gina" (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This is by far the best watercolor book out there. I've learned so much from it. I love the color pallette Jean recommended in her book. I highly recommend this book to all levels watercolorist. Thank you Jean for sharing your talent and knowledge with us.