Create Perfect Paintings: An Artist's Guide to Visual Thinking

by Nancy Reyner

The Ultimate Resource and Reference Guide for Artists! Discover an innovative self-critique method that will empower you to answer the artist's most common questions, Now What? and Is it Finished? as you learn to identify and overcome painting issues faced by artists regardless of medium or style. With hundreds of insights, tips, illustrated techniques and ideas, Create Perfect Paintings shows you how to push your work to the next level by strengthening your perception, technical skills and visual thinking. Exercises and examples illustrate how to critique your own creations and then evaluate them step by step for further improvement. You will compare illustrations, and learn to identify and modify artistic choices--from negative space and color ratio to controlling eye movement, depth and contrast--to see their impact and help you use them to the best effect in your work. What you'll find    • Section 1: Essentials--Reviews and defines artistic terms and concepts.   • Section 2: Play Phase--Shows you how to tap into your right brain. Learn to challenge the process and break habits to free your spirit and inspire variety in your art; also covers materials, tools and surfaces   • Section 3: Critique Phase--Introduces a groundbreaking method of contemporary critique called The Viewing Game a comprehensive, systematic and fun way to analyze, edit and enhance your paintings.   • Sections 4 and 5--Bonus sections explore how to resolve creative blocks, convey artistic messages, boost your personal style, display your work and turn painting into a career."May this book increase your productivity, add ease and flow to your creative process, clarify your ideas, add nuance to your personal style, and most importantly, add joy to the miraculous act of painting." --Nancy Reyner

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

409 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 17, 2017

Reviews

[Riley M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book to help you understand what makes a painting great (rather than just good). First it explains factors that can make a strong painting, like what creates “visual tension” that makes your eye move around a painting instead of feeling it’s just background noise. Then it gives step by step guidance for critiquing your work, a kind of checklist to assess whether it’s qualities create that sort of visual interest or not, and suggestions for what to alter to make it more interesting. I found it very valuable as an artist. Even if your art isn’t painting it could still be helpful for other 2D forms of creative work.

[Maryana · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mi intención era descubrir algo nuevo respecto a la pintura que desconociese pero al parecer este libro es más bien para aquellos que se adentran en el mundo de la pintura y del arte en general.
El libro sigue un eje lineal desde los materiales, hasta la critica; con detalles y explicaciones breves.