Watercolour Textures Collins Artists Studio

Author : Ann Blockley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008328242
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watercolour Textures (Collins Artist’s Studio) written by Ann Blockley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Blockley is a very successful artist, known for the innovative way in which she uses texture as a key element in her work. This book, in Collins Artist’s Studio series, looks at how she achieves her stunning effects and provides essential guidelines for the intermediate painter wishing to develop this aspect of their own painting.

Author : Judi Whitton
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000810851X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loosen Up Your Watercolours (Collins Artist’s Studio) written by Judi Whitton and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated ebook, in the Collins Artist’s Studio series, is aimed at the intermediate painter and explains how to loosen up your watercolours and develop a more spontaneous style of painting.

Author : Ann Blockley
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849945071
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watercolour Workshop written by Ann Blockley and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational and practical art manual, packed with step-by-step projects. Artist Ann Blockley is renowned for her innovative approach to watercolour painting. Her highly anticipated new book provides a series of workshops demonstrating how to push the boundaries of watercolour, using key techniques to develop your own work and take your paintings to the next level. Ann's easy-to-follow, step-by-step projects demonstrate how some of her most dramatic paintings are created. She describes in detail some of the key techniques used and how you can experiment with alternative methods to create your own interpretations. Finally, her beautiful and inspirational artworks demonstrate how different interpretations of a subject might take an unexpected or unusual direction, and how to make the most of these opportunities. The book moves, with progressively challenging projects, from loose wildflower meadows, textured woodland and rustic rambling walls to atmospheric or semi-abstract landscape corners, all rendered in Ann's adventurous signature style. Loose, expressive mark-making and unusual techniques include combining water-based paint and ink with granulation medium for dramatic texture, drawing with twigs, using gesso and collage to create unique effects; manipulating paint with materials such as plastic wrap (clingfilm); developing printed marks made using found materials. Following the huge demand for more practical guidance in experimental painting, the book provides plenty of techniques and instruction. Ann's personal commentary also gives a unique insight into the mind of the artist – ways of looking at your subject, how to explore and experiment – to unlock the potential of your watercolour painting.

Author : Ann Blockley
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849941866
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experimental Landscapes in Watercolour written by Ann Blockley and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artist Ann Blockley is renowned for her innovative approach to traditional subjects. Following the huge success of her previous book, Experimental Flowers in Watercolour, she now explores ways to interpret landscape. Packed with stunning examples of her colourful, expressive work, this book encourages you to experiment with the same techniques in your own watercolour painting to develop a personal style. Techniques covered include combining water-based paint and ink with other media such as gesso and collage to create dramatic effects; manipulating paint with materials such as plastic wrap (clingfilm); tearing, layering and reassembling paintings into watercolour collages; and developing textures and marks made using fabrics and other found objects. Throughout the book Ann offers her personal commentary on how her paintings were created, giving us a unique insight into the mind of the artist. Both practical and inspirational, this glorious book is the ideal companion for watercolour painters who want to take their work a step further.

Author : Hazel Soan
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008540810
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets of Watercolour Success (Collins Artist’s Studio) written by Hazel Soan and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully illustrated book in Collins Artist’s Studio series well-known artist Hazel Soan reveals 9 key secrets of watercolour painting that will enable painters with some experience to develop greater confidence and a more professional attitude to their work.

Author : Ann Blockley
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780007156184
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flower Painting Through the Seasons written by Ann Blockley and published by Collins. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a year-long course in watercolour flower painting. It contains both step-by-step demonstrations and more challenging projects. The book is divided into monthly chapters, revealing that the quieter seasons of autumn and winter offer just as many flower painting possibilities as the busy spring and summer months. Each chapter offers one full step-by-step demonstration plus several projects - some simple, some more ambitious - relevant to the time of year.

Author : Ann Blockley
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780004122878
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Countryside in Watercolour written by Ann Blockley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1988-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books in this series are aimed at the amateur leisure painter. They are written by professional working artists who guide the reader through each subject in easy stages. Included are step-by-step demonstrations and the aim is to provide a valuable library of practical advice and inspiration.

Author : Ann Blockley
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849947228
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity Through Nature written by Ann Blockley and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate and purposeful book on finding real creativity through nature. An essential book for our times and all artists at whatever level. In her most passionate and personal book to date, acclaimed watercolour artist Ann Blockley takes both budding and more experienced artists through a series of ideas for working with nature – in its widest sense – to nurture our creativity, inspire us, make us more sustainable artists, and replenish energy and flow when our artistic streams run dry. In 'Go Outside and Play', the author exhorts artists to recapture a fun, no-pressure way of being outside and use that feeling when creating. In 'Connecting Materials to Place' she creates her own paint from the local pond. In 'The Slow Movement', the artist reveals her year of working on a specific local hedgerow and painting a series of different interpretation in its every-changing detail. She created regular creative rituals, using her weekly playing card as a starting point for a new painting to reflect the season each week. She reuses old paintings, and tissue and paper – wabi-sabi style – to create new textures and even new paintings. Including work from other artists as well as her own, she shows the ideas and work from textile and mixed-media artists. From allotment inspiration to reusing old painting and from nature prints to the alchemy of found materials, this is a journey to find new creativity through our connection with our natural world.

Author : HAZEL. SOAN
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008320751
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collins Artist's Little Book of Inspiration written by HAZEL. SOAN and published by Collins. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attractive, highly illustrated little sourcebook of ideas and practical exercises, Collins Artist's Little Book of Inspiration is for artists looking for new creativity. Through a combination of practical instruction, illustrated projects and step-by-step demonstrations in watercolour, oil and acrylic, popular artist Hazel Soan explains how to develop your observational skills and unleash your creativity.The book shows you how to find inspiration all around you - 'seeing' like an artist, recognizing potential subjects and considering new approaches. Hazel Soan encourages you to experiment with papers and other surfaces, refresh your palette and understand what different materials can achieve.From concept to composition let this little book be your guide to what to include in your work, how to be creative with colour and utilize tone and texture. Learn to see the world around you and the art materials you use in a new light, with ideas to inspire you around the house, out and about and on your wider travels. This attractive book also contains inspiring gallery pages which reveal how other artists have found new approaches to their chosen subjects.

Author : Ann Blockley
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849945403
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Blockley – A Retrospective written by Ann Blockley and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Blockley was one of Britain's most outstanding watercolour and pastel painters of the late 20th century, and has exhibited at the Royal Academy. Self-taught, he produced work that has always been experimental and progressive. His highly textured style was well ahead of his time and still hugely influential now. The quality of his work is even more staggering given that he never trained at any art college, and spent most of his working life as an engineer. He only started painting full time at the age of 52. His obsession for drawing and painting, even while a successful engineer, was driven by his search for the essence of his subjects. The power of his paintings reveal that passion. This beautiful retrospective of his work, including drawings, watercolours, pastels and also acrylics, brings together the best of his work. The illuminating commentary on his work is from his daughter, Ann Blockley, who is also an acclaimed painter in her own right. She understands completely where John Blockley was coming from in his artistic vision and also explains the techniques he used. Breaking with so many traditions in watercolour painting in the 1960s, John was and is an influential figure in the art world. John said, 'In order to paint the terrain as I see it – blotched, mottled, grainy – I must experiment'. These experimentations are still of huge value to painters today. This book is perfect for any painter who enjoys John's work but also for all the many, many fans of his work.