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A practical, stimulating, and superbly illustrated book for the intermediate watercolourist who is looking for greater challenges in their work. Shirley Trevena's watercolours are visually inspiring, vibrant with colour and strong in composition. This book shows what stunning results she achieves and how she does it by taking risks with watercolour. Taking you through her paintings from the first concept to the finished watercolour, Shirley explains and illustrates her techniques for producing exciting, luminous and colourful watercolours. Although watercolour is a difficult medium to handle, Shirley maintains that you get the best results if you have no sense of fear and just let yourself enjoy watercolour's fascinating versatility. In Taking Risks With Watercolour Shirley Trevena teaches her own prize-winning techniques and encourages the reader to experiment with colour, composition and tone to produce exciting still life, landscape and flower paintings. Contents include: * What shall I paint?

* Composing a picture * Large scale and small scale * Getting started and making marks * Developing the painting * Taking risks with colour * Experiments with tone * Bold textures and patterns * Getting it wrong * Moving on

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   32 of 32 people found the following review helpful: inspirational stuff, 20 Jul 2005 By  "gramic10" - See all my reviews A truly inspiring book giving an insight into how Shirley Trevena works. Dont buy it if youre looking for a step by step guide to producing a painting- this book is all about giving you the confidence to explore your own style rather than trying to use standard techniques to achieve a `result` as so many other books do. As a practising artist,I found the book fascinating and a real insight into the authors methods of painting. It fired me up to try new ideas and could do the same for you !  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   47 of 48 people found the following review helpful: A beautiful book, 18 Feb 2005 By  lynsey adams "Kanga" (England) - See all my reviews    This is simply a beautiful book. I have long admired Shirley Trevena's work, and was so pleased to see a book from her at last. It does not disappoint. An artist myself for many years, normally a lover of landscapes and abstract art, this book comes near the top of my list for anyone who is serious about their painting - well, even if not, still buy it for the inspiration. Shirley takes the most difficult of mediums, watercolour, and works magic with it. She takes the most deadly of subjects, still life, and makes it vibrantly interesting. She breaks all the rules of perspective, technique (backruns and blobs look beautiful), and truly does take risks. The results are amazing - despite having bought the accompanying video, and read the book from cover to cover, I know that I could never produce work like this if I tried for the rest of my life. Normally this would put me off buying a book, yet here the work is not 'looking down on us from a great height'; the subjects are familiar, it looks as though it MIGHT be achievable - at some undefined point in the distant future! This is not a book for the beginner - it doesn't take you through the usual range of exercises designed to start you off in watercolour. There are thousands of books out there that will do that, (and you still won't be able to do it!) The author is an artist of great ability and experience. She does not patronise the reader, is honest about showing us the way she works, the little tricks she might use to get the effect she wants - without being at all gimmicky. Her work might look as though she has thrown it all together in a few hours, but this is very far from the case. She is still developing new ways of working, going in new directions,(landscape, printmaking), even returning to her beginnings as a figure painter. I hope she will continue to produce these fabulously unique and inspirational watercolours as well. Buy the book! You can't fail to love it.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (