Watercolor Expressions: 126 Artists Express Moods with Paint and Brush
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In this lyrical collection of more than 130 works, each artist expresses a particular mood through his or her art. Happiness, anger, sorrow, triumph, despair, joy-all are here, presenting the wonderful range of human emotions in a showcase of paintings from some of today's finest talent.
What does it mean to create expressive watercolors?"To imbue a thought, a word, a sign, or symbol with emotion-to use values and color, playing them off each other as a musician plays different chords of music, choosing them as carefully as poets choose their words. As we sit before our subject, we forget all else; we are one with our subject. All we have are colors, lines, and values. We add mediums, shapes, and forms in pictorial space to make a composition. We have color choices to make-how light, how dark, which ones to place next to each other. We're so careful about how they touch, the wonderful edges they make. We are in a different world, the world of painting-and all of us have our own world, and this is how we put it down…" --from the introduction by Betty Lou Schlemm, AWS-DF
About the Author
Betty Lou Schlemm, A.W.S., D.F., has been painting for more than forty years. Elected to the American Watercolor Society in 1964 and later elected to the Dolphin Fellowship, she has served as both regional vice president and director of the American Watercolor Society. Schlemm's other books include, The Best of Watercolor series from Rockport Publishers and Painting with Light, distributed by North Light Books/F&W Publications.
Watercolor Expressions: 126 Artists Express Moods with Paint and Brush,Betty Lou Schlemm,Rockport Publishers,1564966453,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Techniques,Watercolor
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