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    Splash 9: Watercolor Secrets
    Splash 9: Watercolor Secrets
    Splash 9: Watercolor Secrets
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    Splash 9: Watercolor Secrets

    By Rachel Rubin Wolf

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    The Potential of Watercolor Revealed

    Luminous, dynamic and expressive, watercolor is an intriguing medium for artist and viewer alike. Splash 9: Watercolor Secrets invites you to push your own creative potential to new heights as you explore the work of more than 100 of today's best watercolor artists.

    Page after page showcases a diverse array of styles and subjects, from quiet still lifes to animated streetscapes to mood-filled portraits. Each featured artist punctuates this collection with his or her own distinctive mastery of the medium. In every work, you'll see how color, composition and personal inspiration blend with years of practice, commitment and experimentation to create resonant works of stunning beauty.

    Created specifically for artists and art lovers, Splash 9 invites you to discover watercolor on a deeper level, providing detailed commentary from the artists themselves on every piece. You'll learn about their influences, their challenges and, most importantly, their specialized painting techniques.

    Delight in the secrets of this inspiring collection!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
    Release dateJul 27, 2006
    ISBN9781440313196
    Splash 9: Watercolor Secrets

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      Book preview

      Splash 9 - Rachel Rubin Wolf

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      Sunny Flowers Daryl Bryant

      15 × 15 (38cm × 38cm)

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      Street Scene Rhoda Yanow

      38 × 32 (97cm × 81cm)

      Go Your Own Way

      In this painting I was going after the beat, or rhythm, of the street. When I am looking for a subject to paint—and I am always looking for something that excites me until the right moment—I sometimes find a subject that’s banal, but I consider it up to me, as the artist, to give it. One afternoon, I looked down the street and saw a lot of movement, men were working, children were coming home from school. I did some rapid sketching and started to do a paste-up of the composition when I got home.

      I exaggerate movement by exaggerating diagonals. The wheelbarrow’s shape leads the eye to the dynamic worker. In another diagonal, the children coming home from a day at school, there is such rhythm in their bodies. The street, again another diagonal, keeps it from being boring. Everyone has a purpose, going in different directions.

      Splash 9

      THE BEST OF WATERCOLOR

      Edited by Rachel Rubin Wolf

      watercolor secrets

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      www.artistsnetwork.com

      ABOUT THE EDITOR

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      Rachel Rubin Wolf is a freelance editor and artist. She edits and writes fine art books for North Light Books, including the Splash series (Best of Watercolor); The Best of Wildlife Art (editions 1 & 2); The Best of Portrait Painting; The Best of Flower Painting 2; The Acrylic Painter’s Book of Styles and Techniques; Painting Ships, Shores and the Sea; and Painting the Many Moods of Light. She also has acquired numerous new fine art book projects and authors for North Light Books, and is the contributing writer for Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Thank you to the editors, designers and staff at North Light Books who have made this into the beautiful final product it is, including Jamie Markle, Mark Griffin, Mona Michael, Guy Kelly and Amanda Metcalf. A special thanks to Vanessa Lyman who has been the foreman on the job, keeping it all together.

      A special thanks also to the contributing artists. As I have said in my introduction, you have been great! You have been so willing to share and revise and send me more. I honestly count a number of you as friends, though the finite limits of space and time restrict the expression of that friendship. I long, as many of you do, for the fullness of the beauty we appreciate on this earth to come to fruition. For now, we can only imitate the wonder we see; one day we shall truly enter into it.

      Splash 9: Watercolor Secrets The Best of Watercolor. Copyright © 2006 by Rachel Rubin Wolf. Manufactured in China. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. Published by North Light Books, an imprint of F+W Publications, Inc., 4700 East Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45236. (800) 289-0963. First Edition.

      Other fine North Light Books are available from your local bookstore, art supply store or direct from the publisher.

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      Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data---updated to come

      Rubin Wolf, Rachel

      Splash 9 watercolor scenes : the best of watercolor / Rachel Rubin Wolf.

      p. cm.

      ISBN-13: 978-1-58180-694-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)

      ISBN-10: 1-58180-694-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)

      ISBN-13: 978-1-60061-577-1 (EPUB)

      1. Watercolor painting--Technique. I. Title: Splash nine watercolor secrets. II. Title.

      ND2420.R83 2006                                  2006002778

      751.42’2--dc22

      Production edited by Vanessa Lyman

      Designed by Guy Kelly

      Production art by Lisa Holstein

      Production coordinated by Matt Wagner

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      The Crab Basket Betty Ganley

      20½ × 14½ (52cm × 37cm)

      Reflect on Reflections

      When painting water, remember that you actually are painting reflections. My general rule is to start by wetting a blue sky reflection with water. Then, starting at the farthest point, I apply a graded wash of more cobalt and less cerulean that has a touch of burnt sienna to tone down the brightness. When dry, I repeat—perhaps several times—to get the desired depth of color. You can enhance a solitary boat scene with reflections of unseen objects. You can place such reflections with an artist’s purpose, aiming to add balance to the painting. Use a long, thick reflection on one side balanced with a few short, thin reflections on the other, for example. Then use a rigger brush to design ropes and lines in an undulating fashion to act as pathways through the reflection. If the reflected object also appears in the painting, get the placement right by painting the reflections with your eye level exactly even with the object itself. It is also a great idea to add a touch of the complementary color in the center of interest; in this case the burnt orange of the crab basket helps balance all the blue and acts as a magnet for the eye.

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION

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      1 PAINTIN' IN THE STREETS

      Whether traveling the world or walking to your own city's beat, there is action and beauty to be found in the streets, lanes and plazas of village and city alike.

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      2 SATURATED WITH LIGHT AND COLOR

      There are no more watercolory qualities than these. They are what make watercolors sing.

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      3 PAINTING RICH TEXTURE AND INTRICATE DETAIL

      Watercolor lends itself to the broad wash, but also can be the unrivaled master of fine detail.

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      4 DARE TO BE DARING

      There shouldn’t be any stop signs in your studio. Have fun; it’s just paper!

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      5 FINDING A POINT OF VIEW

      Give life and freshness to overpainted or ordinary subjects by finding a new angle.

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      6 CREATING GLOWING MOOD AND ATMOSPHERE

      I think that I shall never see a painting lovely as a tree. But don’t stop trying!

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      7 BREATHING LIFE INTO PEOPLE AND ANIMALS

      Since human culture began, artists have sought to capture the unique gesture and personality of living souls—whether on a cave wall or canvas.

      CONTRIBUTOR INFORMATION

      WHY DO YOU PAINT?

      Art has always been a part of my life. I paint because I can't stop.

      —Judy Morris

      I paint because more often than not it speaks louder than any words I could say.

      —Cathy Hegman

      I paint to capture the light, to freeze in time that which is always in motion.

      —Robert O'Brien

      WHY DO YOU PAINT?

      I paint because it brings me great joy and a feeling of accomplishment, starting with a blank sheet and giving it life.

      —Rhoda Yanow

      Painting is my obsession, my passion and my greatest pleasure!

      —Sandy Delehanty

      "I paint as a

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