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| A Pacific Northwest Nature Sketchbook | 
 enlarge | Author: Jude Siegel
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 377467
Format: Illustrated
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 204
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0881927910
Dewey Decimal Number: 743.836795
EAN: 9780881927917
ASIN: 0881927910
Publication Date: August 1, 2006
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Product Description
This step-by-step guide to painting scenes of nature offers dozens of practical tips for combining watercolor and ink to create pages rich in personal meaning. Exercises include warming up, making thumbnail sketches, choosing a manageable subject, changing perspective, seeing patterns, creating depth and distance, and using color. Lavishly illustrated with more than 140 of the author's original watercolors of Oregon and Washington.
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nature is where you find it January 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Jude teaches through this book that nature is where you find it. Sure, taking in an amazing vista in the Pacific NW is a inspiration to be sure. But you take away the feeling that your own backyard, kitty asleep on the couch, local park, birds at the window or just some stones in your pocket hold just as much promise and beauty. She makes you feel like this is something you owe to yourself, just create for the sake of the happiness it brings. She urges you to not get caught up in the "correct way" or whether or not it will ever hang on a wall, just look, listen, feel and put it on paper the way only you know how. It will be just perfect! What a fun approach, full of freedom, acceptance and promise. Only you can capture the moment like only you see it. Very rewarding to read, see her sketches/paintings AND to practice the approach.
This book will always be special to me July 22, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I was revisiting my hometown region (Pacific Northwest) and came across Jude Seigel's book. Although I'd never painted before (well, since grade school) I immediately had to have this book and before I left Seattle, I'd invested over $100 in Winsor and Newton paints and brushes.
Since then I've purchased other books (and many more paints...!), but still find myself gravitating to Pacific Northwest Nature Sketchbook for the casual, authentic, do-it-now spirit in which it was written. Jude's style embraces every level of artist--you do what you can and the more you do it the better you get--but the message is clear: everything you create is precious and represents your vision at a single moment in time.
Thanks, Jude, for this inspiration and for a lovely, timeless book.
Coasts, mountains, deserts and more February 14, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Jude Siegal writes about how a painter observes, how shadows and mists interact with colors and shapes, and how taking time to absorb the beauty of place enriches our lives. Her ability to appreciate details and broad vistas and her expressive word of language and color make this a great book for writers and admirers of the Pacific Northwest as well as painters.
an excellent introduction to Nature Journaling January 13, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent introduction to Nature Journaling. The author sets out her method in easy-to-understand steps, taking the mystery out of buying paper, brushes, and paints, and how to set up a palette, make a palette map, and get started drawing the natural world.
The illustrations are Jude Siegel's own vibrant drawings and paintings. This book made me reach for my pen and watercolors!
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