- Hardcover: 159 pages
- Publisher: Channel 4 Books (10 Nov 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752218972
- ISBN-13: 978-0752218977
- Product Dimensions: 25.2 x 19.4 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 616,541 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Painting with Watercolour Challenge" is a book in which the experts who feature on the series - Mike Chaplin, Hazel Soan, Jenny Wheatley and Susan Webb - sit alongside the contestants and create a selection of different paintings of the same scene. By recreating the process that the experts use, the reader can learn new techniques, familiar pitfalls and be inspired to have a go themselves. The experts also demonstrate, using step-by-step illustrations, some of the most used techniques in order to create a practical manual. The book opens with a section on behind-the-scences explaining where the original idea came from, how the artists are chosen and what happens on a typical - and hectic - day on location.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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I found this book immensely readable and inspiring. It is directly related to the popular Channel 4 Series 'Watercolour Challenge', but it is not necessary to have seen the programmes in order to enjoy the book. Each day during the summer three amateur artists painted in various locations throughout Britain. Subjects ranged from landscape and seascape, to animals, boats and street scenes. Viewers followed the artists' progress and heard the advice given to them by three different art experts.
The book follows the same format as the 'Watercolour Challenge' book published last year and both are of the same high standard. It is profusely illustrated with photographs of the contestants and the various locations, as well as examples of the sketches and paintings at various stages of creation. I found the expert tips to be the most useful part of the book, and I would have liked these to have been given more coverage. It was interesting to read the background to the programme and to learn the 'behind-the-scenes' work, in particular the way competitors were selected. It takes a very special person to be confident enough to paint a difficult subject, often under inclement weather conditions, and within a time limit of four hours. Most of us would find this sufficiently daunting, without the added scrutiny of experts, a full camera crew and a wide television audience.
I feel that the enthusiastic painter, whether amateur or semi-professional, will learn much from this book. It shows the difficulties which one is likely to encounter and gives clear demonstrations of how to solve them, including colour mixing, composition, how to deal with changing light conditions and perspective. My only criticism would be that the reader is not told which of the three painters was the winner at each location, nor the reason that their painting was chosen. The 'final of the competition took place in the gardens of Prince Charles' home at Highgrove. The finalist won a painting holiday in Zanzibar, but the winning artist was not featured and neither did his painting appear. This was disappointing.
However I can thoroughly recommend this book. It certainly challenges the reader to 'have a go', and I have been inspired to take up my own sketchbook and paints!
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