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Wonderful World of Watercolor: Learning and Loving Transparent Watercolor Reviews
November 1st, 2010 by Aldouspi

Wonderful World of Watercolor: Learning and Loving Transparent Watercolor

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Learn to paint in watercolor–at any age! * Down-to-earth, you-can-do-it instructions and ideas * Surefire techniques plus reassuring text * Basics build to a final three-day watercolor workshop Everyone loves watercolors. They’re easy to carry around and they don’t call for complicated special materials. But getting started with watercolors can be daunting. What paper, paint, and brushes do you really need? How do you mix colors without getting mud? How do you create those clear, glowing to

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Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines

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Beginning and advanced artists will benefit from the negative painting concepts presented in Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines. Author Linda Kemp shares her techniques for using the strength of negative space to create alluring paintings. Exercises featuring landscapes, florals, and motifs from nature give readers the skills and knowledge necessary to make their next watercolor a strinking piece of art.

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  • R. Garcia writes:
    November 1st, 201010:30 amat

    Review by R. Garcia for Wonderful World of Watercolor: Learning and Loving Transparent Watercolor
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    Book Reviewed by Marie L. Meegan, Salem, Massachusetts.

    If I were to pick only one book as a reference for mastering the art and science of watercolor painting, it would be Mary Baumgartner’s Wonderful World of Watercolor. Besides being a technical masterpiece, it is a beautiful book, having many exquisite examples of watercolor painting. The author imparts her joy in the subject matter, as well as her delight in teaching – a winning combination.

    The first section is devoted to color: choosing color, mixing color, and considering its warmth, or coolness, color values, transparency or opacity. The author provides sample charts for guidance, and in fact, insists her own students paint these charts so color mixing will not be a hit or miss experience.

    There are chapters on supplies, work space and composition. Baumgartner carefully explains all the essentials for success, such as negative space, glazing, and lifting paint, to name a few. Drawing skills are handled in detail. Special advice for painting metallic objects, glass, water droplets, skies, clouds, foliage, and fur are covered in a chapter entitled “The Hard Stuff – Made Easy.”

    She writes about using artistic license to arrange a painting to enhance the qualities of the scene she might be composing. She guarantees a clear center of interest, and paints with the light source in mind. She photographs scenes, objects, and people for future paintings. The author, while not lacking in intuitiveness, is convinced one must do the work to create paintings that captivate the viewer. In the chapter “Telling a Story,” Baumgartner quotes Edgar Degas as having said, “My art is in no way spontaneous – it is entirely contrived.” If you paint or teach watercolor painting you must have this book.

  • T. Thompson writes:
    November 1st, 201011:00 amat

    Review by T. Thompson for Wonderful World of Watercolor: Learning and Loving Transparent Watercolor
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    After being away from my painting for several years, I decided to get back into the groove. Finding “Wonderful World of Watercolor” was my perfect solution! I enjoyed beginning at page one and working my way through this book. The color charts were so helpful and I might add, still are helpful. If you are a novice, this book is a great teaching tool. And, if you are a more experienced watercolorist, this book is over the top with fresh ideas and techniques. Mary Baumgartner touches on all aspects of how to enjoy the Wonderful World of Watercolor!

  • L. Nelson writes:
    November 1st, 201011:30 amat

    Review by L. Nelson for Wonderful World of Watercolor: Learning and Loving Transparent Watercolor
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    I stumbled across this book at the library, and found it so full of helpful information for a watercolor beginner that I bought it right away.

    Wonderful color mixing charts and a clear explanation of various techniques.

  • Luci K. Subica writes:
    November 1st, 201011:45 amat

    Review by Luci K. Subica for Wonderful World of Watercolor: Learning and Loving Transparent Watercolor
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    The explanation in the book and the tips Mary Baumgartner shares is what I needed to continue with my painting and ideas for future paintings. Her color charts are reinforcement to what my present teacher has been teaching us in class. The scenarios she shares makes me think more out of my comfort zone. This book has been a reinforcement in what I have been learning and making my views of painting broader.

  • Teresa A. Higgs writes:
    November 1st, 201012:08 pmat

    Review by Teresa A. Higgs for Wonderful World of Watercolor: Learning and Loving Transparent Watercolor
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    It is difficult to take seriously an artist that uses and urges others to use fugitive colors. This artist palette contains 5 fugitive colors. In my opinion, there is absolutely no reason to use these colors when there are perfectly acceptable alternates. No where does the author mention that these colors will fade quickly even in a protected environment.For more info about this go to […]

    In addition the paintings shown in the book seem over worked and lacking in spontaneity.

    I wish I had previewed the book before buying.

  • Andrea A. writes:
    November 1st, 201012:45 pmat

    Review by Andrea A. for Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines
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    Negative space has long been one of my favorite art principles, but one that few artists truly seem to understand or take full advantage of. So when I saw the title of this book, I was more than a little intrigued. After pouring through this book, I was left with a lasting, positive impression.

    Linda Kemp not only understands negative space, but she capitalizes upon it to create bold, stunning and truly unique watercolor paintings. She offers the reader a wide array of creative ideas that develop negative space into focal centerpieces, and clearly explains the various techniques used to pull them off, such as developing lively, bold underpaintings as the basis for later paintings and how to create textures that further emphasize negative space.

    I am very impressed with this book. While the author’s style of painting is quite different from my own, and may well differ greatly from your’s, she offers many fun, exciting ideas to get the creative juices flowing, keep the process exciting and bring liveliness to into any style of painting.

    If you want to explore exciting ways to treat negative space, and have an interest in watercolor or other water media, this is definitely the book for you.

  • Joanna Daneman writes:
    November 1st, 20101:13 pmat

    Review by Joanna Daneman for Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines
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    Linda Kemp’s work is luminous and seems to float off the pages. She recommends EVERYONE to use the technique of painting negative space to improve their art. Negative painting is going AROUND the outline of a subject, the way you might lay down a leaf on a white sheet of paper. Then dab paint around it. Lift off that leaf and you have a white leaf floating on a colored ground.The book has the following chapters:Basic Painting Supplies Underpaintings – laying the groundwork Getting into Shapes – become aware of negative shapes! Working with Glazes and Building Layers Building Nature’s Complex Shapes Picture Planning Made Easy Assembling the Pieces of the Puzzle The author says this technique applies to all media (certainly those who do charcoal or pastel are well aware of the importance of negative space, as are sculptors.) As a watercolorist, if you concentrate on line and wash, this will be quite revealing. In fact, this is probably a “must-have” on the technique bookshelf.

  • Alan Dale Daniel writes:
    November 1st, 20101:54 pmat

    Review by Alan Dale Daniel for Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines
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    I don’t know who wrote the other reviews on this book, but I paint and draw and I have purchased a lot of books on art instruction, and this is one of the worst I have ever seen. I sent the book back to Amazon because it was so bad. I have only sent one other book back to Amazon and that includes over a hundred I have purchased over the years.

    This book offers nothing to the artist. The book is a presentation of the artist’s work and not much more. All the glowing reports of teaching you how to paint negative space are fine, but that is about all the book shows the student. And you can learn a lot more about negative space in Drawing On The Right Side of the Brain and Keys to Drawing than you can learn here.

    If you want to look at paintings by this artist (Linda Kemp) go ahead and buy the book, but if you are looking for art instruction look elsewhere.

  • M. alice Strom writes:
    November 1st, 20102:08 pmat

    Review by M. alice Strom for Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines
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    Many books that offer information to artists who wish to learn are a disappointment. Sometimes they promise more than they deliver. Not this book. It delivers more than it promises. I bought this book because I wished to learn about “negative painting,” an elusive technique (to me), but I discovered that it could teach me much about watercolor techniques composition, drawing, color, and more as well. What I like best about this book are the writer’s carefully worded and illustrated discriptions of technique. In my experience, the best ever. I have thought that this could be a book for a young person with no experience because it is so clear. I have a lot of experience, but I need this book. Mary Alice Strom

  • Allan M. Malkasian writes:
    November 1st, 20102:17 pmat

    Review by Allan M. Malkasian for Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines
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    This book is informative, but really does not give any more information on negative painting than the average Watercolor book with a section on negative painting….might be good for a rank beginner…and should be advertised as such.

    Over all fair.


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