The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook - Keep Painting!

A Treasury of Tips to Inspire Your Watercolor Painting Adventure

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Pub Date 27 Dec 2017 | Archive Date 11 Jan 2018
F+W Media | North Light Books

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Recharge your creative spirit and rediscover the magic that is watercolor!
 
Every watercolorist needs a creative kick in the pants now and then--to keep seeking inspiration when feeling uninspired, to keep going when a painting has stalled, to keep trying when a technique isn't easy to master...sometimes just to keep painting, period.

When your artistic well has run dry, you must replenish it. Whether you have spent decades painting in watercolor or are just beginning, the tips and secrets shared by best-selling author and artist Gordon MacKenzie provide the perfect guide when the going gets tough. Get excited about watercolor again as he shows you how to:
Find better approaches to a tired compositionEngage viewers more fully with color, value and well-placed "wee people"Reinvent a scene that outshines your reference photographsDramatize a landscape by focusing on the weatherNurture your own growth by sharing what you know with others"You don't have to paint the way you paint now. You don't have to paint what you paint now." --Gordon MacKenzie

Recharge your creative spirit and rediscover the magic that is watercolor!
 
Every watercolorist needs a creative kick in the pants now and then--to keep seeking inspiration when feeling uninspired...


A Note From the Publisher

Gordon MacKenzie is a native of New Liskeard, Ontario. He has been a popular artist and teacher for more than 30 years and has mounted more than 25 solo exhibitions. His work hangs in many private and corporate collections and has been featured in magazines. He conducts workshops in the United States and Canada. He has produced two books with North Light and has also self-produced a popular video. His current residence is in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Gordon MacKenzie is a native of New Liskeard, Ontario. He has been a popular artist and teacher for more than 30 years and has mounted more than 25 solo exhibitions. His work hangs in many private...


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ISBN 9781440348778
PRICE £19.99 (GBP)
PAGES 144

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The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook-Keep Painting!: A Treasury of Tips to Inspire Your Watercolor Painting Adventure by Gordon MacKenzie is just fabulous!
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This is such a delightful and helpful book! There are so many tips and techniques in here that I would never have thought to try. Even different was to compose the picture, ways to ground the picture, points of view, different ways to choose colors for your paintings, gradations and reversals, working with values, negative painting, atmosphere, making small people, changing the season of your painting, and so much more. There are so many pictures on each page and some step by steps. A great book! It is on my wish list! There are cute little cartoon characters along the way that also describe things and they are so cute, what a hoot!

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