Watercolor: Drybrush Technique

Rating:
Summary: Innovative Approach to Watercolor
Review: A fantastic little book. The author draws with watercolor paint! In otherwords, instead of the usual wash or broad strokes that most painters use to complete their paintings he builds pictures with a wash and then painting thin small strokes or daubs of the brush as if it were a pen. The results are facinating.

Each chapter has a project/demonstration and lists exactly the brushes used, the paint, surfaces, etc. By following the instructions you learn a new approach to watercolor painting. The process is not unlike egg tempera painting (which I also do) except with watercolor paint. After reading this book and completing the acorn project I am ready to begin the next project. I know I am going to have to incorporate more of this style of watercolor painting in my new work.

Rating:
Summary: Innovative Approach to Watercolor
Review: A fantastic little book. The author draws with watercolor paint! In otherwords, instead of the usual wash or broad strokes that most painters use to complete their paintings he builds pictures with a wash and then painting thin small strokes or daubs of the brush as if it were a pen. The results are facinating.

Each chapter has a project/demonstration and lists exactly the brushes used, the paint, surfaces, etc. By following the instructions you learn a new approach to watercolor painting. The process is not unlike egg tempera painting (which I also do) except with watercolor paint. After reading this book and completing the acorn project I am ready to begin the next project. I know I am going to have to incorporate more of this style of watercolor painting in my new work.

Rating:
Summary: Perfect Novice's book
Review: Having never painted the usual way, I took to this method like a duck to water. I'm afraid this method may spoil me! I found some of the concepts odd at first, especially the purple underpainting for everything, but then I remembered that Rockwell started his oil paintings with a Mars violet underpainting; and besides, the results are beautiful! I'd say that if you've never done a watercolor before in your life, here is a safe way to plunge into a new medium with good results!