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About the Product Whether you are a beginner or an experienced artist, the book by popular Japanese artist Yuko Nagayama will guide you through amazing and often complex watercolor techniques. In 12 easy lessons, you will learn how to create striking work. Watercolors can be called one of the most beautiful techniques for their delicate brush strokes, shimmery fills and a seemingly effortless result. But that is why it is extremely difficult to learn. Watercolors are capable of spreading on paper, changing its shape and even its color after drying. Renowned watercolor expert Yuko Nagayama demonstrates in this book how you can improve your skills by following original, accessible, and easy-to-follow guidelines. It is based on a unique and successful author’s approach to creating colorful watercolors. There are step-by-step illustrations and detailed instructions to make learning the watercolor technique simple and straightforward for aspiring artists. The book will be an invaluable source of knowledge for more experienced artists, as well as for those who decide to brush up on their skills. The book contains an overview of the supplies you need to create outstanding watercolors, tips for choosing paints, instructions for mixing them on a palette, and a description of the basics of sketching. This edition includes striking and inspiring illustrations. Thanks to Nagayama’s book, readers will be able to hone their skills and achieve maximum brightness in each work. Nagayama touches on all major topics, from how to mix paint on a palette to how to add highlights and shadows to create depth. In addition to watercolors, the artist uses gold and platinum, as well as paints typical of traditional Japanese painting. Numerous helpful tips and tricks make Nagayama’s book the perfect guide for artists of all skill levels. From the Author Almost all of us painted in watercolors in elementary or high school. Unlike oil or traditional Japanese style, it does not require special training, special paints and tools. Anyone can work with watercolor: enough paints, brushes and water. In other words, this is an affordable amateur art. But when you start working in earnest, it suddenly turns out that watercolor is not as simple as it seems at first glance. Those who have been painting in oils for many years say: «Watercolor is difficult, because nothing can be corrected in it.» To correctly convey the forms and determine the ratio of light and shadow, the same skills are needed here as in other techniques. Despite the apparent simplicity, working with transparent paint and achieving an airy and luminous effect in practice is not so easy. Quotes from the book The Peeping Game There must be a reason why you are drawing these particular apples. Take them in hand and think about why you chose them. Personally, in a store or fruit department, I arrange a peeping game with many apples. In the end, I choose those that have a distinct pentahedral shape, firm, asymmetrical, with their own character and fresh, with straight cuttings. Reflections Objects interact. When drawing a mandarin, lemon, and a piece of cloth, don’t tweak each object separately. Spread the paint carefully and think, «Where is this color reflected?» Then you can create the feeling that the orange or lemon is really lying on the table next to it. Where does a still life begin? First, the background! The landscape begins with him. For example, first the sky, then the mountains, the lake, and only then the trees. The same applies to still life. Having decided on the composition, start working out the outlines of the objects in the background. Sunflower I picked sunflowers from my parents’ garden and painted them in my workshop. After that, I took the flowers out of the water and left them to lie. And only then I noticed that their swollen seeds began to germinate. Even dying, the sunflower directed all its energy into the seeds, and they experienced an amazing transformation. The sunflower did exactly what it had to do. I was very impressed by this. Anything will come in handy Someone wrote to me: “The leaves and flowers of roses in my garden were destroyed by a typhoon. But, looking closely, you could see that some of the leaves survived, hitting the thorns, as if they were protecting the very life of flowers. There is nothing in this world that will not come in handy someday. » Geometric Shapes The main thing in sketching is the ability to distinguish between geometric shapes. Even when they are not visible, imagine the bottom of the bottle oval or round (its neck) and try to sketch them. There is a big difference between drawing lines and then erasing them, and not drawing them at all. …
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