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| Being Bold with Watercolour | 
 enlarge | Author: Annette Kane
Publisher: Batsford
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 628237
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.7 x 0.7
ISBN: 0713490187
Dewey Decimal Number: 751.422
EAN: 9780713490183
ASIN: 0713490187
Publication Date: September 28, 2006
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Product Description
?Bold? isn?t a word generally associated with watercolor, but that?s because most artists don?t know the secrets of using them to create bright, vibrant works. Internationally renowned painter and instructor Annette Kane reveals her three secrets for intensifying this popular medium: special methods of mixing colors; brushstrokes that maximize the power of a composition; and fresh ways of combining other elements like ink, acrylic, and gouache. She covers each move toward boldness with start-to-finish demonstrations that lead to stunning finished paintings in a variety of forms?including still life, sun and shadow studies, window and doorway scenes, landscapes, and water features.
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Candid and insightful instruction by one of England's top working watercolorists October 3, 2007
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I am a beginning watercolorist so I feel completely free to explore every approach and technique. I've already read (and purchased) many watercolor-related books, most of which have given me the sense of "sitting at the feet of the master" to some extent. For this reason, Annette Kane's book was very refreshing for me. Aside from the fact that Ms. Kane is undoubtedly versatile and talented (the pictures in her book attest to that), her introduction and prose are disarmingly candid, reality-based, and encouraging to someone like me who does not see herself as an Artist (capital "A").
She explains that "[my] success has resulted as much from my businesslike approach as from my ability as an artist...I accept that my work is not exceptionally innovative and that it is essentially illustrative. But it reflects my ideas and feelings, and I make no apology for painting in a style that is true to myself. In fact, this is something that i would encourage every painter to do. If you are not naturally experimental and freely expressive, why try to be!"
Heresy? Perhaps. But I hear her saying, Be the kind of painter that YOU want to be. Learn, copy, practice, but above all, see yourself as unique and don't measure your paintings against some artworld standard.
Personally, I love and admire children's book illustrators, so perhaps that is partly why I am drawn to Ms. Kane's fresh, colorful, sensitive work. I like the way she walks you through her approaches to watercolor techniques, explaining her two different processes--controlled and fast and loose; and then combining them. I don't aspire to the depth of detail that she exhibits in some of her work, but I am learning a great deal from her examples and guidance.
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