Watermedia Painting with Stephen Quiller

Author: Stephen Quiller
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Inspiring ideas from one of the world’s great art teachers • Top author—more than 100,000 books sold worldwide • Solid instruction from a watermedia expert • Tips and techniques for developing a personal style and vision Join renowned artist Stephen Quiller, the creator of the famous Quiller Wheel, the Quiller Palette, and the Quiller lines of paints, on a journey of art discovery and exploration. Watermedia Painting with Stephen Quiller is an in-depth look at all the watermedia paints available to today’s artists. Part One looks at watercolors, with illustrations of the visual characteristics of the mineral (sedimentary) and transparent (staining) and their effects with different paper surfaces. Part Two focuses on acrylics, gouache, and casein. In Part Three, Quiller shares his secrets for the most difficult aspect of painting—developing a personal style and vision. Packed with Quiller’s thoughts and ideas on painting philosophy, the meditative and spiritual aspects of art, photographing art, travel, and building a studio, this is an inspiring guide to living a creative life and creating art.

Casein Painting with Stephen Quiller

Author: Stephen Quiller
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
In this important book, Stephen Quiller unveils the many secrets of casein. Travel with him through a span of 50 years as he discovers and reveals the beautiful visual qualities and handling characteristics of this important painting medium.

Watermedia Techniques

Author: Stephen Quiller
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
ISBN: 9780823056767
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description

Water Media, Processes and Possibilities

Author: Stephen Quiller
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
The authors of the popular Water Media Techniques now offer new ways to emphasize composition and negative shapes rather than techniques in the mediums of watercolor, acrylic, gouache, and casein.

Color Choices

Author: Stephen Quiller
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 9780823006977
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
Internationally renowned artist and best selling author Stephen Quiller shows readers how to discover their own personal "color sense" in Color Choices, a book that offers readers a fresh perspective on perfecting their own color styles. With the help of his own "Quiller Wheel," a special foldout wheel featuring 68 precisely placed colors, the author shows artists how they can develop their own unique color blends. First, Quiller demonstrates how to use the wheel to interpret color relationships and mix colors more clearly. Then he explains, step by step, how to develop five structured color schemes, apply underlays and overlays, and use color in striking, unusual ways. This book will bring out every artist's unique sense of color whether he or she works in oil, watercolor, acrylics, gouache, or casein.

Painter's Guide to Color

Author: Stephen Quiller
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media
ISBN: 9781635619577
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Internationally-known painter, teacher and author Stephen Quiller shares his consummate knowledge of mixing vibrant hues. Painters, commercial artists, designers and decorators have studied with this master color theorist for decades. A must for beginners as well as professionals seeking to make their work truly reflect their creative expression.

Master Class in Watermedia

Author: Edward Betts
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
ISBN: 9780823030408
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Using the author's luminous work as an inspiring point of departure, participants in this traditional and experimental master class learn to work with a broad range of watermedia, pushing beyond realism to build images that have urgency and power. 277 illustrations, 244 in color.

Fearless Watercolor for Beginners

Author: Sandrine Pelissier
Publisher: North Light Books
ISBN: 9781440337260
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Finally! Artful watercolor painting for beginners! Yes, YOU can do it. YOU can create beautiful watercolor paintings--everything from florals to portraits to landscapes--even if you've never before worked with this exuberant, exciting medium. Fearless Watercolor for Beginners offers a unique, one-on-one workshop--with step-by-step demonstrations, exercises and bonus video content--that teaches you all the basics you need to get started (and then some)--and then promptly encourages you to break them! Inside you'll find: * 22 step-by-step demonstrations for basic techniques, techniques for adding texture, and mixed-media techniques for truly one-of-a-kind work * Dozens of easy-to-understand concepts, practical, meaningful tips and fun ideas you'll be eager to try * Links to exclusive demo videos, exercises and tools to round out and enhance your workshop experience Be bold! Be daring! Be FEARLESS!

Painting Light and Shadow in Watercolor

Author: William B Lawrence
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
Push your watercolor painting to the next level by mastering the use of color, light, and shadows. Go beyond trying to copy what you see by designing with shapes, shadows, and highlights. Deepen the expressive nature of your paintings as you capture the subject's luminosity. Master painter William B. Lawrence offers hands-on techniques and insights for intermediate to advanced artists. Light and color take the viewer on a journey. Properly harnessed, they can convey emotion, create a mood, or tell a story. Whether your work is realistic, expressive, or abstract, the options are unlimited. Lawrence explores pattern, hue, contrast, and texture in this treasured classic. Using a combination of theory, demonstration, and practical suggestions this new arsenal of tools, will help you grow as an artist. Other techniques covered include: How to design with light and shadow The use of overlapping patterns How light can express movement Learning to use light and dark to add drama and intensity to your work Discover how to guide the viewer's eye through floodlights, spotlights, and other advanced light-manipulation techniques. Painting Light and Shadow in Watercolor will help you create radiant watercolor paintings and give you greater painting pleasure as you develop new skills which bring your imagination to life.

Color Choices

Author: Stephen Quiller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
Discusses color relationships and the color wheel, tells how to develop color schemes, and shows a variety of paintings.