- Hardcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.; Rev Sub edition (4 Nov 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0823030172
- ISBN-13: 978-0823030170
- Product Dimensions: 28.2 x 21.6 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,481,932 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Now completely revised in an updated, four-colour edition, this is a reference for the serious artist working in transparent watercolour, gouache, casein, acrylic, and mixed media. Reviewing basic methods and exploring a variety of techniques, artist Edward Betts invites painters who have reached a certain level of technical expertise to expand their range of pictorial possibilities. Through a series of progressive chapters, Betts analyses sketching strategies (both on-location and in the studio), sources for pictorial images (including photographs, memory, reading, and studio experimentation), and the textures and effects obtainable in each of the watermedia. Collage, mixed-media, and brushless methods are considered as tools for gaining a deeper understanding of the formal possibilities of subject matter. Betts then assesses the complex relationships between nature and abstraction, for descriptive realism to pure design. Finally, readers are encouraged to evaluate their art critically and appraise their creative strengths and weaknesses.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Master Class in Watermedia by Edward Betts is without doubt the best book of its kind that I have ever encountered. If you're looking to free up your painting style this book is brim-full of exciting tips and ideas. I have improved beyond recognition as a result of applying his creative techniques.
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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Master Class in watermedia
22 Aug 2000
Format:Paperback
This book is an inspiration for any artists interested in mixed media and developing their skills towards non-representational painting. It is very well written and aimed at the more advanced painters in water media. Edward Betts uses his own paintings for illustrating and inspiration. This is one book that is a must for your studio bookshelf - borrowing it from the library for a quick read will not satisfy the need to return again and again to its inspirational pages.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Not your ordinary watermedia book
16 Mar 2006
Format:Paperback
This book is not for beginners, but if you are searching for inspiration to move beyond more conventional approaches to painting in watercolor and acrylic, this might be a book worth owning. Edward Betts' observations are well-grounded in his academic experiences (at the U. of Illinois, where he went to grad school and later taught painting for many years, and at Yale, where he studied art history). As a result, he gently but insistently nudges his readers away from more traditional sorts of painting methods (although he still finds some value in doing that sort of painting from time to time, and he provides examples of such work). Betts advocates a much more experimental, abstract, painterly and, therefore, a more personal approach. Some readers may find that his painting style is not all that much to their liking, but if they keep an open mind, they still should find value in the ideas about painting that Betts articulates so well. These ideas have been around for quite a while now, but he does a fine job of explaining them to those readers who still think of painting in more traditional, illustrative terms. Betts challenges such painters to create art that is distinctive and inspired, rather than imitative and predictable.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
A must have....
11 Aug 2002
Format:Paperback
What a wonderful book.
Better than a class.
Not a step by step kind of book, but one to give you good solid art
methods so you can explore in your own style.
It opened my mind.
I haven't been this excited about my work in ages.
Thank you Edward Betts for sharing your wisdom.
Better than a class.
Not a step by step kind of book, but one to give you good solid art
methods so you can explore in your own style.
It opened my mind.
I haven't been this excited about my work in ages.
Thank you Edward Betts for sharing your wisdom.
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