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Title: Mastering Atmosphere & Mood in Watercolor: The Critical Ingredients That Turn Paintings into Art by Joseph Zbukvic, Robert A. Wade ISBN: 1-929834-17-9 Publisher: International Artist Publishing Pub. Date: July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Incredible Art...tiresome reading
Comment: The art work is of the highest quality...the text is very poorly edited. What are "tyres"? (aka tires, like on a car), the writing is plagued with misspellings (maybe that's the way it's spelled in Australia!). Australiaisms abound to such a degree that I have no idea what their talking about.
Making tea, coffee, milk, etc. from paint becomes tiring. One of the demonstration paintings clearly shows the artist's full arm in the painting during the demostration but yet in the side bar describes the painting as 7"x12" (The Artist must have and extremely short arm!)
However, that said, the paintings are incredible and breathe-taking! I will be practicing and trying to duplicate these moody effects for a long time. It is amazing how much detail can be shown with so few brush stokes. Zubukvic really shines! Don't forget to get his friend Alvaro's book "Painting with passion". You can see how their styles are similar. A feast for the eyes and an insight as to how artists view the world. I wish all art books could be so splended. It's to bad these artist spend so much of their time in other parts of the world, I would love to be in their workshops.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Paintings BUT>>>
Comment: The paintings are both stunning and unattainably great, and Zbukvic should have limited himself to the paintings and demos the book. There are enough good demos in this book to make this book a must have, given that the art is so stellar.
However, he uses a flawed teaching tool to teach others how to master a logical method for knowing when to use what degree of wetness in a wash for atmospheric results (the 'watercolor clock' graphic). The clock is a sort of pie chart that on one side has degrees of wetness and on the other applications. The idea is that the big hand will point to a use and the little hand to a degree of wetness. But the hands of a clock can be moved anywherearbitrarily! There is no rule governing when to move , say, one hand to 10 o'clock and the other to 3 oclock . Without such a rule you are left simply with the information that degrees of wetness exist and various situations exist but no means of coordinating when to use what. In other words its a gimmick to sell books & would have flunked as a sixth grade science fair project. That being said his art is so absolutely great that even a flawed gimmicky trick can be overlooked in favor of his great talent and his helpful demos.
Rating: 3
Summary: Great art, eye candy
Comment: Great paintings, some of the best I've seen. Helpful demos. Some aspects of instruction should be overlooked (watercolor clock) but brilliant paintings. Get the book to see some great art, but don't expect to instantly paint like this--its far too advanced. 5 stars for art, 1 star for instruction = 3 stars.
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Title: The Art of Designing Watercolors by Robert Lovett ISBN: 1929834144 Publisher: International Artist Publishing Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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Title: Simplifying Complex Scenes in Watercolor by Malcolm Beattie ISBN: 1929834241 Publisher: International Artist Publishing Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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Title: Mastering Light & Shade in Watercolor by Ong Kim Seng, Robert A. Wade ISBN: 1929834233 Publisher: International Artist Publishing Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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Title: Robert Wade's Watercolor Workshop Handbook by Robert A. Wade ISBN: 1929834152 Publisher: International Artist Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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Title: How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself: Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects by Nita Engle ISBN: 0823057089 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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