Painting the Spirit of Nature Capture Your Personal Responses to Nature Using Experimental Painting Techniques

Whether you are painting the spirit of nature -- or painting nature with a free spirit -- the keynote of this book is experimentation & keeping an open mind. Painting a scene exactly as it appears to the eye, as a realist landscape artist does, is only one of the many ways to capture nature. Masterfield demonstrates basic techniques for achieving texture, color mixtures, & shapes. Shows you new ways to work in watercolor -- by pouring inks, adding opaque lines to textured passages, using crinkled wax paper as resists -- & describes ways to collage several paintings together into an exciting work of art. Color & B&W illustrations.Masterfield, Maxine is the author of 'Painting the Spirit of Nature Capture Your Personal Responses to Nature Using Experimental Painting Techniques' with ISBN 9780788196966 and ISBN 0788196960.