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| Watercolor Basics: Let's Get Started (Watercolor Basics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jack Reid
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (19 reviews)
Sales Rank: 95627
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 127
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0891348670
Dewey Decimal Number: 751.422
EAN: 9780891348672
ASIN: 0891348670
Publication Date: October 1998
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Best watercolor book for beginners May 20, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
When I decided to take up watercolors I ended up purchasing a library of books - almost twenty - but the best one of them all for a beginner is this book by Jack Reid. He not only takes you through all the technical details of watercolors - materials, washes, techniques but, before confusing the beginner with mixing and using colors, he first ensures that you have a solid understanding of values. The most brilliant colors in the world will not help a picture where the values are wrong or non-existant. Jack Reid starts the student with monochrome landscapes through most of the book until you really understand and can produce an excellent piece of art using only color in all of its tones and values. Then you reproduce the same picture using one, then two, and working up to five colors. By the time he takes you through a full painting - a step that most watercolor books jumped into at the start - you have a much better mastery of your medium, of planning your landscapes, of being able to work wet into dry or wet into wet. By the time I completed his work I was able to go back to some of the earlier books and now successfully complete their exercises. I could concentrate on the best use of color because I clearly understood how to the apply the tones and shades and values of those colors to enhance the picture. This is an outstanding book for beginners and one I highly recommend.Watercolor Basics: Let's Get Started (Watercolor Basics)
excellent book May 13, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is really really good for the beginner artist learning watercolors..Its easy to follow and understand. I would recommend this book to anyone, even if you already are dabbling in watercolors and want a couple of lessons in it, this is also a great book to help you out.
Great for begners February 19, 2007
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I got this for my nephew. He has really enjoyed it.
Watercolor basics/Let's get started March 9, 2006
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
By far the best beginner book I have ever picked up. I have used some of the ideas in this book to teach workshops and have had tremendous success with people that have never picked up a brush. You can"t go wrong
 Good, but video instruction is perhaps better March 4, 2006
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
I've purchased quite a few instructional books on both watercolors and oils. While I found this one easy to follow for the absolute beginner, in practice, I found the exercises to be a bit stilted. What I mean by that is in attempting to reproduce his paintings, step by step, I found that it took away the wonder and spontenaity one might experience while sketching and painting a simple still life set up. I understand the theory behind the book, and the value studies are interesting, but I think that simply practicing washes, and also practicing with simple still lifes might be more rewarding. I've watched a few videos on watercolor painting which have been more helpful than any book.
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