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| Putting People in Your Paintings | 
 enlarge | Author: Laurel Hart
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 61776
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 1581807805
Dewey Decimal Number: 751.42242
EAN: 9781581807806
ASIN: 1581807805
Publication Date: January 31, 2007
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Product Description
Clear Instruction from an Award-Winning Artist *No other book provides such clear instruction for putting people into paintings *Watercolor and people is a can?t-miss combo--the most popular medium with the most popular subject matter! A lot of books teach artists how to draw portraits or figures, but this book takes that concept one step further, showing readers how to put those people into realistic scenes. It?s never been easier to capture the essence of people, with: *11 step-by-step watercolor demonstrations, featuring interiors, landscapes, cityscapes and more *Inspirational quotes to keep artists motivated and encourage them to put people they care about into their paintings *A look at all the basics: shapes, values, composition, color and watercolor techniques
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 Very Helpful October 6, 2008
This was exactly what I was looking for in a tutorial for painting people. The reader does need to know some fundamentals in watercolor though. Its well planed and explained. My work has improved 10 fold because of it.
Great Book August 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Thought this was a wonderful book. Just what I was looking for ie. impressionistic images of figures in watercolour. The demos are clear and easy to follow. Her paintings are full of light and she sets everything out very clearly. More helpful than a DVD. Highly recommended.
Inspiring and practical July 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After years of avoiding attempting to paint figures, I am now able to put people into my paintings successfully. Laurels book is beautifully written and well laid out, which makes it easy to use. She manages to communicate the techniques and instill confidence, so a big thank you!
 Not for beginners May 27, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is written by a professional portrait painter. She is fabulous in her approach to watercolor portraits but I believe not that helpful to the beginner like myself. The hardest thing to do is to put figures into a landscape or seascape and this book has the information but assumes you are comfortable painting faces and figures in the first place.
Should you already feel comfortable drawing and painting faces and figures, by all means buy this book.
The beginner should look elsewhere to realizing the concept and instruction of figure placement.
There are many videos on the market like Don Andrews - "Painting Figurs in the Landscape" - and Tony Van Hasselt - "Fun with Figures" -that do the job for tyros like us.
EXCEPTIONAL Watercolor Instruction Book. BEAUTIFUL! October 15, 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book is mainly about watercolor painting. There is a lot of focus on how to simplify the complex, and determining values. It is an absolutely wonderful book to develop skills at value sketches and seeing the light and shadows. It is filled to the brim with valuable information, and it is also filled with stunning artwork by the author.
The teaching style and organization of the material taught is great.
The author/ artist has a talent for simplifying complex information. She also teaches the reader/ student artist how to take a complex scene that you want to paint and learn the methods of simplifying it. Some of this simplicity is based on exercises of being trained to see light and shadow and values. It is a unique book--I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning to paint. It is not a basic beginner's how-to book, but can be very helpful to all levels of painters--especially in developing better skills at value sketches, and emphasizing light and shadow in your work.
The author's artwork is very inspiring. Her demonstrations are very clear and well-organized. The exercises are exceptionally well-taught, with illustrations that help you understand easily. She teaches you how to take black and white photos of a scene and make value sketches and interpret the light and shadow. The author explains that "figures are patterns of light and shadow". She demonstrates how this light and shadow is then used to put people in paintings, find a center of focus, set mood with color schemes, triads for fleshtones, etc..
I love the author's methods of explaining the painting process: An example is:
A demonstration on watercolor washes are taught in a simplified way called "watercolor laundry method"--basically, as in household laundry, learning to separate lights and darks, (i.e. painting lights first, letting it dry (hairdryer), then doing the darks. She then demonstrates how a series of washes over each other builds up the shadows and creates light.
This book definitely deserves 5 stars--it is one of the best watercolor teaching books that I own! It simplifies the difficult.
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