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Watercolour Workshop: projects and interpretations
An inspirational and practical art manual, packed with step-by-step projects.
Artist Ann Blockley is renowned for her innovative approach to watercolour painting. Her highly anticipated new book provides a series of workshops demonstrating how to push the boundaries of watercolour, using key techniques to develop your own work and take your paintings to the next level. Ann's easy-to-follow, step-by-step projects demonstrate how some of her most dramatic paintings are created. She describes in detail some of the key techniques used and how you can experiment with alternative methods to create your own interpretations. Finally, her beautiful and inspirational artworks demonstrate how different interpretations of a subject might take an unexpected or unusual direction, and how to make the most of these opportunities. The book moves, with progressively challenging projects, from loose wildflower meadows, textured woodland and rustic rambling walls to atmospheric or semi-abstract landscape corners, all rendered in Ann’s adventurous signature style. Loose, expressive mark-making and unusual techniques include combining water-based paint and ink with granulation medium for dramatic texture, drawing with twigs, using gesso and collage to create unique effects; manipulating paint with materials such as plastic wrap (clingfilm); developing printed marks made using found materials. Following the huge demand for more practical guidance in experimental painting, the book provides plenty of techniques and instruction. Ann’s personal commentary also gives a unique insight into the mind of the artist – ways of looking at your subject, how to explore and experiment – to unlock the potential of your watercolour painting.
Artist Ann Blockley is renowned for her innovative approach to watercolour painting. Her highly anticipated new book provides a series of workshops demonstrating how to push the boundaries of watercolour, using key techniques to develop your own work and take your paintings to the next level. Ann's easy-to-follow, step-by-step projects demonstrate how some of her most dramatic paintings are created. She describes in detail some of the key techniques used and how you can experiment with alternative methods to create your own interpretations. Finally, her beautiful and inspirational artworks demonstrate how different interpretations of a subject might take an unexpected or unusual direction, and how to make the most of these opportunities. The book moves, with progressively challenging projects, from loose wildflower meadows, textured woodland and rustic rambling walls to atmospheric or semi-abstract landscape corners, all rendered in Ann’s adventurous signature style. Loose, expressive mark-making and unusual techniques include combining water-based paint and ink with granulation medium for dramatic texture, drawing with twigs, using gesso and collage to create unique effects; manipulating paint with materials such as plastic wrap (clingfilm); developing printed marks made using found materials. Following the huge demand for more practical guidance in experimental painting, the book provides plenty of techniques and instruction. Ann’s personal commentary also gives a unique insight into the mind of the artist – ways of looking at your subject, how to explore and experiment – to unlock the potential of your watercolour painting.
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128 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 3, 2018
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February 13, 2019
Beautiful book but I have a feeling it would be better to watch a demo for this sort of thing! The paintings are inspiring,and I do enjoy how she manages to wrangle abstract messes into gorgeous art. There’s a lesson to be learned there... and that is that she is not a strict watercolor artist. She uses gouache (an opaque water based medium) and acrylic inks to touch up her paintings and even collage. Somehow it all works, but this is more mixed media than I had thought it might be from a title “Watercolor Workshop”. I do like her style, but I lean toward abstraction than representational artwork myself.
Also gotta say I am envious of her pencil work.
If you’re interested in loosening up this is the book for you! Otherwise, this would probably be an exercise in frustration.
Also gotta say I am envious of her pencil work.
If you’re interested in loosening up this is the book for you! Otherwise, this would probably be an exercise in frustration.
October 2, 2019
Good ideas
Lots of new textures and techniques helped me break out of photo realism into a more interpretive style using materials heretofore unexplored.
Lots of new textures and techniques helped me break out of photo realism into a more interpretive style using materials heretofore unexplored.
January 28, 2021
Beautiful artwork and a bunch of helpful tip and tutorials.
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