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Title: Painting the Spirit of Nature by Maxine Masterfield ISBN: 0-8230-3867-X Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: This is not the spirit of nature!
Comment: I bought this book since the reviews were quite enthusiastic about it. I have more than 50 watercolor books as well as many other art books, and this is just and justly the worst of them all.
It is about experimental painting, that is true, but it is not about "the spirit of nature". Experimental or abstract painting is simply no excuse. The abstract patterns made through various techniques aren't exciting or beautiful and the techniques themselves can be found in various books where they belong - as a small sidenote. The techniques shown aren't useful at all for a watercolor artist wanting to capture nature.
The enthusiastic reviews gave me a diametrically opposite view of this book than what it was. As a "nature" book it belongs in the trashcan.
What I thought about was some loose techniques for creating texture for nature paintings, but that was not the case, it is all about totally abstractism which was not what I was after.
If you are looking for ways of creating abstact patterns, okey buy it, otherwise don't!
Rating: 5
Summary: Awesome
Comment: If you are looking for ideas and techniques this is a wonderful book. Very well done.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fabulous Teacher, Fabulous Art
Comment: I was lucky enough to have this artist-author as a teacher almost 2 decades ago. I no longer work in this style or medium but when I was working in it, her methods were the most marvelously freeing ones. If you feel constricted with your present results in water color, as if you must "break free" from such rigid control, Maxine is the teacher for you. The art works are totally glorious as well. Many are hers and she uses other artists' work as well. The book has art work on virtually every page. Back when I took her course, I know that her work was also selling for a lot of money to big commercial clients to put in their buildings and to some private homes as well. Thus, she had cracked the commercial barrier too. I applied her techniques in later years to acyrlics and liquid dyes as well and they worked fine there too.
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Title: Master Class in Watermedia: Techniques in Traditional and Experimental Painting by Edward Betts ISBN: 0823030407 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: 15 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Arteffects by Jean Drysdale Green ISBN: 0823025292 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Creative Composition & Design: (The Painters Workshop) by Pat Dews ISBN: 1581803036 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Watercolor from the Heart: Techniques for Painting the Essence of Nature by Barbara Nechis ISBN: 0823016242 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Painting from the Inside Out: 19 Projects and Exercises to Free Your Creative Spirit by Betsy Dillard Stroud ISBN: 158180122X Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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