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Vibrant Watercolours: How to Paint with Drama and Intensity
Alternate Cover Edition for 9781782212942
Everyone is a potential artist.
This book invites you to free yourself from conventional watercolours and bring vibrancy and brightness to your work. Learn how to create portraits full of life, landscapes packed with atmosphere, and abstracts that seem to leap from the paper.
A complete course in how to bring your watercolours to life
5 inspiring step-by-step projects
Dozens of inspirational examples of the author's artwork throughout
Everyone is a potential artist.
This book invites you to free yourself from conventional watercolours and bring vibrancy and brightness to your work. Learn how to create portraits full of life, landscapes packed with atmosphere, and abstracts that seem to leap from the paper.
A complete course in how to bring your watercolours to life
5 inspiring step-by-step projects
Dozens of inspirational examples of the author's artwork throughout
128 pages, Paperback
Published March 16, 2017
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May 13, 2017
Disclaimer: I am grateful to Search Press for sending me a free copy of the book, 'Vibrant Watercolours’ by Hazel Lale, in exchange for an honest review on Amazon. I am duplicating that review here...
First impressions are important. With its clever use of shades of mostly primary colours in the artwork and lettering, Hazel Lale’s book shouts ‘Vibrant Watercolours’ even before you read the title. This riot of colour continues throughout the book. There is something here for the beginner as well as the more advanced student and there is a good mixture of basic teaching on materials and colour, especially useful for a beginner, balanced with a wealth of more advanced instruction. In addition to the obviously necessary teaching about colour, there are sections on ‘bringing your paintings to life’, creating impact and an insight into the author’s own approach to abstraction, particularly helpful as each artist’s approach to this style of working is different. Throughout the book clear instructions are given as Lale shows how she works her colourful landscapes and cityscapes, a harbour scene, portraits, animal images and much more. There are several step by step lessons for turning sketches or other images into finished works where the detailed instruction was, I thought, particularly helpful. Readers will surely get the best out of this book by gradually working through these chapters and experimenting by applying Lale’s ideas to their own work.
‘Vibrant Watercolours’ is heavy on content with wonderful colour on almost every page. There is certainly plenty of instruction here for the reader to return to again and again. The layout of the book is full of information and perhaps rather busy, which I sometimes found a little confusing to the eye. My one main gripe with this book though is that, in common with many art books, I cannot see why it is necessary for artworks to cross the centrefold, visually lessening the impact of the work for the viewer. I would much prefer a smaller image on a whole page or even a sideways image.
I was delighted to be offered ‘Vibrant Watercolours’ to review and know it will be a very useful addition to my bookshelf, one that I am sure I will keep returning to for new insights. I look forward to experimenting with its tips and techniques in the coming months. If I can make my watercolours ‘sing’ as beautifully and vibrantly as Hazel Lale’s I shall be very pleased.
SJFA
May 2017
First impressions are important. With its clever use of shades of mostly primary colours in the artwork and lettering, Hazel Lale’s book shouts ‘Vibrant Watercolours’ even before you read the title. This riot of colour continues throughout the book. There is something here for the beginner as well as the more advanced student and there is a good mixture of basic teaching on materials and colour, especially useful for a beginner, balanced with a wealth of more advanced instruction. In addition to the obviously necessary teaching about colour, there are sections on ‘bringing your paintings to life’, creating impact and an insight into the author’s own approach to abstraction, particularly helpful as each artist’s approach to this style of working is different. Throughout the book clear instructions are given as Lale shows how she works her colourful landscapes and cityscapes, a harbour scene, portraits, animal images and much more. There are several step by step lessons for turning sketches or other images into finished works where the detailed instruction was, I thought, particularly helpful. Readers will surely get the best out of this book by gradually working through these chapters and experimenting by applying Lale’s ideas to their own work.
‘Vibrant Watercolours’ is heavy on content with wonderful colour on almost every page. There is certainly plenty of instruction here for the reader to return to again and again. The layout of the book is full of information and perhaps rather busy, which I sometimes found a little confusing to the eye. My one main gripe with this book though is that, in common with many art books, I cannot see why it is necessary for artworks to cross the centrefold, visually lessening the impact of the work for the viewer. I would much prefer a smaller image on a whole page or even a sideways image.
I was delighted to be offered ‘Vibrant Watercolours’ to review and know it will be a very useful addition to my bookshelf, one that I am sure I will keep returning to for new insights. I look forward to experimenting with its tips and techniques in the coming months. If I can make my watercolours ‘sing’ as beautifully and vibrantly as Hazel Lale’s I shall be very pleased.
SJFA
May 2017
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