This is a book about making connections: interweaving lines, shapes, colours, moving backgrounds into foregrounds, converting positive into negative shapes, turning lost edges into foreground boundaries. The intention is to create a painting or drawing that is a harmonious unit, with each individual element subordinated to the impact of the whole. The author uses pen and ink, watercolour and oil to introduce methods for artists to develop personal patterns of thinking and perceiving and to integrate a drawing or a painting. This book is designed to be of interest to artists of all levels and abilities, particularly for intermediate and advanced students who already know how to paint but who want to make more expressive paintings. Charles Reid is the author of "Figure Painting in Watercolor" and "Painting by Design".
- ISBN10 0823044483
- ISBN13 9780823044481
- Publish Date 1 August 1991 (first published 1 September 1985)
- Publish Status Temporarily Withdrawn
- Out of Print 4 September 1996
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Watson-Guptill Publications
- Imprint Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English