- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.; New edition edition (28 May 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0823030407
- ISBN-13: 978-0823030408
- Product Dimensions: 27.6 x 20.8 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 619,335 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Using the author's work as an inspiring point of departure, participants in this master class learn to work with a broad range of watermedia, pushing beyond realism to build images that have urgency and power. Readers are encouraged to take risks that will help them to abandon usual methods and embrace fresh ways of painting with watercolour, gouache, casein, acrylic, using collage, brushless methods, and many other techniques.
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Master class in watermedia,
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This review is from: Master Class in Water Media: Techniques in Traditional and Experimental Painting (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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5.0 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews) 35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
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Master Class in watermedia,
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This review is from: Master Class in Water Media: Techniques in Traditional and Experimental Painting (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.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Not your ordinary watermedia book,
By artist/designer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Master Class in Water Media: Techniques in Traditional and Experimental Painting (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:
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A must have....,
By Patricia Don Diego "IMZORRO" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Master Class in Water Media: Techniques in Traditional and Experimental Painting (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. |
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