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| Painting with Watercolor, Pen & Ink | 
 enlarge | Author: Claudia Nice
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book
List Price: $26.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 340112
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 221
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 158180265X
Dewey Decimal Number: 751.422
UPC: 035313321313
EAN: 9781581802658
ASIN: 158180265X
Publication Date: July 1, 2002
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Product Description
Best-selling author and artist Claudia Nice shows readers how to create incredible art in watercolor, pen and ink. She makes it easy by covering all the drawing and painting basics--from materials and texture techniques to color theory and special effects. It's a one-of-a-kind course in making extraordinary art. Nice provides guidelines, advice and techniques for rendering hundreds of favorite places, environments and animals with incredible detail, including: -Transparent images such as glass, eyes and water -Silver, brass, gold, copper, bronze and rusted metal -Earth and stone textures, including soil, sand and gravel -Skies and weather -Fields, flowers, trees, forests and wood grain patterns -Tide pools, tropical reefs, fish and animals -Deserts, ponds, swamps, marshes and mountains It's no exaggeration to say that this incredible volume--a compilation collecting some of the finest instruction from Nice's other best-selling books--contains enough instruction, inspiration and gorgeous art to keep readers drawing, painting and enjoying the outdoors for years to come.
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 Drawing aid May 29, 2008
In combination with other books by Claudia Nice, an artist will learn new techniques for pen and ink. I have started drawing again since I retired and this has been a real help. Great book!!!
Adding pen highlights to w/c for beginners March 5, 2008
If you've never considered highlighting your watercolor painting with Mircron pen, this book will show you the possibilities. Good illustrations. Has some basic watercolor techniques. Painting and drawing is all about practice, practice, practice. No book will paint or draw for you. If you practice the techniques here you will learn something.
I've not seen any of her other books so read the other reviews about duplication of material and consider that if you already have other titles by this author.
Very NICE book November 18, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I admit that i bought this book primarily for the attractive illustrations fillings its pages...these inspired me a lot. Before reading this book i used to think watercolour as a boring medium -unable to achieve the strong effects I always for in my paintings. However now I have changed my mind and really am keen to try my hand in this medium -following Ms Nice illustrations one can get a very clear idea of what one can achieve using watercolour, pen and ink. However it does not really give you step by step instructions on how to achieve certain effects - i feel that one needs to be already a bit good in watercolour to try these exercises.However it is useful for those who would like to try innovative ways to achieve effective watercolour images. The pen and ink illustrations with watercolour washes are delightful. This book covers textures, transparency, wood grain, skies, trees, flowers, still life and more. Anyone who would like to add to their visual encyclopedia of fine illustraions should buy this book just for them alone! Highly recommeneded!!
 Save your money April 13, 2005
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
The illustrations are nice. The instruction consists mostly of showing a drawing with a few general comments thrown in. I learned very little from this book.
Terrific book! June 30, 2004
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I really like this book because it gives so many ideas and specific instructions on how to achieve the many effects. It introduced me to technical pens, which I was not aware of eons ago when I worked with pen & ink. I think Ms. Nice is a very gifted instructor.
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