Painting Light and Shadow in Watercolor

by William B. Lawrence

Push your watercolor painting to the next level by mastering the use of color, light, and shadows.

Go beyond trying to copy what you see by designing with shapes, shadows, and highlights. Deepen the expressive nature of your paintings as you capture the subject's luminosity. Master painter William B. Lawrence offers hands-on techniques and insights for intermediate to advanced artists. Light and color take the viewer on a journey. Properly harnessed, they can convey emotion, create a mood, or tell a story. Whether your work is realistic, expressive, or abstract, the options are unlimited. Lawrence explores pattern, hue, contrast, and texture in this treasured classic. Using a combination of theory, demonstration, and practical suggestions this new arsenal of tools, will help you grow as an artist. Other techniques covered

How to design with light and shadowThe use of overlapping patternsHow light can express movementLearning to use light and dark to add drama and intensity to your workDiscover how to guide the viewer's eye through floodlights, spotlights, and other advanced light-manipulation techniques.Painting Light and Shadow in Watercolor will help you create radiant watercolor paintings and give you greater painting pleasure as you develop new skills which bring your imagination to life.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

201 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 30, 2022

Reviews

[August Schau · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very helpful look at actually painting, instead of copying.

[Lars · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you want to develop your own style, a good approach is to select a painting process and a type of motive, and concentrate of those. This book contains valuable suggestions as to how you can select an approach and a process to painting using floating paint, examplified eith watercolors. The description on the use of big shapes and how to develop them is extraordinary useful. This is clearly an important book for painters with a desire to develop style and process.

[thuys]

I would recommend to read a bit if you havenot got much idea about painting, the book offers some good points as for the painting is concerned, not much of watercolor specifically indeed.