Watercolor Basics - Perspective Secrets

by Phil Metzger

Create Space and Depth in your Watercolors!

Psst! If you want to learn the secrets to creating depth and realism in your watercolor paintings, take a look in this book! You'll find easy tricks for fooling the eye into seeing your paintings in three dimensions - from the basic rules of linear perspective to size and space variations, overlapping, aerial perspective and other techniques. Everything's explained in simple language with step-by-step demonstrations showing how to apply the principles to a variety of subjects. With this clear and practical instruction, it's easier than you might think to put your paintings into perspective!

Genres: Art, Reference, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 1999

Reviews

[Teresa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book condenses perspective into a very readable and understandable volume that, I think, even a child could understand. Metzger does a brilliant job of making a usually daunting subject quite approachable. It's a must-have for the libraries of beginning artists.

(I was pleasantly surprised at how much of this stuff I already knew, but it was still a good review for me.)

[Patsy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book for refreshing skills on drawing in perspective. It would be perfect for a beginning artist as well.