A Passion for Watercolor: Painting the Inner Experience

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Summary: Absolutely essential to vision and creativity
Review: This is an unusual watercolor book in that there are no daisies or nice little postcards, how "this is how you hold your brush" or other practical instruction. This is all about capturing the inner vision and feeling and translating it into paint on paper. After I read this book, I thought about, well, nothing in particular, but I went and did a picture inspired by a market I visited in Bombay. I didn't use pencil to sketch, just put brush to paper and got several paintings that were the best I ever did. Something in this book made a secret part of my brush and paint handling "click" and even though I didn't like the author's painting style (!) I gained some kind of new ability from his text and examples of his sketches. If nothing else, this book will teach you to doodle profitably to advance your technique and artistic sense. Highly recommended.