{"product_id":"urban-watercolor-sketching-isbn-9780770435219","title":"Urban Watercolor Sketching","description":"\u003cb\u003eA guide that shows painters, drawers, doodlers, and urban sketchers how to bring their drawings to life with colorful, bold, yet accessible painting methods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eCOLOR YOUR LIFE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBring new energy to your sketches of urban scenes with this fresh and simple approach to watercolor painting. Whether you’re an amateur artist, drawer, doodler, or sketcher, watercolor is a versatile sketching medium that’s perfect for people on the go—much like pen or pencil. Accomplished designer and illustrator Felix Scheinberger offers a solid foundation in color theory and countless lessons on all aspects of watercolor sketching, including:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fundamentals like wet-on-wet, glazes, and washes\u003cbr\u003e Materials and supplies to bring on your travels\u003cbr\u003e Little-known tips and tricks, like painting when water \u003cbr\u003e isn’t handy and seeking out inspiration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Vibrant watercolor paintings grace each page, and light-hearted anecdotes (why do fish make great subjects to paint, you may be wondering...) make this a lively guide to the medium. With an open mind and sketchbook, you will be ready to capture the moments around you in luminous color with confidence, creativity, and ease—no matter what your skill level may be.INTRO\u003cbr\u003e Watercolors—In or Out?\u003cbr\u003e A Painting for the Emperor\u003cbr\u003e Gum Arabic: Where the Watercolors Grow\u003cbr\u003e Pigments: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of\u003cbr\u003e Yellow and Orange: Of Camels and Crocuses\u003cbr\u003e Red and Purple: Of Bugs and Snails\u003cbr\u003e Blue: Of Lapis Lazuli, Indigo, and Woad\u003cbr\u003e Green: Of Plants and Poison\u003cbr\u003e Introducing Color to Sketches:\u003cbr\u003e We’re Not in Kansas Anymore\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e FIRST ATTEMPTS\u003cbr\u003e Multiple Choice: To Design Is to Decide\u003cbr\u003e From Dusk till Dawn: Shadows and Light\u003cbr\u003e Black Is Back: Glazing with India Ink\u003cbr\u003e Layer for Layer: The Glaze\u003cbr\u003e Mixing Colors with Glazes\u003cbr\u003e Fish Soup: Practicing the Glaze\u003cbr\u003e The Wash: The Paint Does as It Pleases!\u003cbr\u003e On the Run: Graded Wash Techniques\u003cbr\u003e Once More, with Feeling!: Washes\u003cbr\u003e It’s a Give and Take: Applying and Removing Paint \u003cbr\u003e Wet-on-Wet\u003cbr\u003e Combining Techniques: A Little Bit of This and That \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e EXCURSION IN COLOR THEORY\u003cbr\u003e Where Do Colors Come From?:  \u003cbr\u003e The Simple Science\u003cbr\u003e Arranging Colors\u003cbr\u003e Opposites Attract: Color Contrasts\u003cbr\u003e From South Park to Stoplights: Types of Color\u003cbr\u003e True Color: The Effect of Light \u003cbr\u003e Every Color Tells a Story: Intensifying Your Sketches\u003cbr\u003e It’s All Relative: The Effects of Colors\u003cbr\u003e Color Harmonies: Simple and Complex\u003cbr\u003e Analogous, Monochromatic, and Complementary Harmonies\u003cbr\u003e Triadic and Tetradic Harmonies\u003cbr\u003e Cool-Cool and Warm-Warm Harmonies\u003cbr\u003e Collecting Colors\u003cbr\u003e Designing Color Harmonies: Working with Color Code Strips\u003cbr\u003e Getting Out of Your Color Comfort Zone  \u003cbr\u003e The Blue Ridge Mountains: Color and Perspective\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e YOUR OWN STYLE\u003cbr\u003e Less Is More\u003cbr\u003e Me, Myself, and I: Finding Your Own Style\u003cbr\u003e Style and Creativity\u003cbr\u003e Throwing Down: Loosening Up Your Painting\u003cbr\u003e Seek Not and You Shall Find: Imagination vs. Internet\u003cbr\u003e Make It Matter\u003cbr\u003e Priorities \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e BASICS \/ TOOLS\u003cbr\u003e Paintboxes\u003cbr\u003e Watercolor Pencils\u003cbr\u003e Buying Paints\u003cbr\u003e Mixing Paints\u003cbr\u003e Impossible Hues: Bright Colors\u003cbr\u003e Pimping Watercolors: Making Colors Pop\u003cbr\u003e Liquid Watercolors: Bright Now, Pale Later\u003cbr\u003e Into the Wild: Brushes\u003cbr\u003e Even More Brushes\u003cbr\u003e Paper \u003cbr\u003e The Permanent Wave: Stretching Paper \u003cbr\u003e The Contents of My Bag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOUT \u0026amp; ABOUT\u003cbr\u003e Bad Weather: Painting Outdoors\u003cbr\u003e The Other Viewpoint: Changing Perspective\u003cbr\u003e Painting Water  \u003cbr\u003e Air, Fog, Smoke\u003cbr\u003e Smog and Atmosphere\u003cbr\u003e What Is Beauty Anyway? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTIPS \u0026amp; TRICKS\u003cbr\u003e Composition and Design\u003cbr\u003e Smudges and Spots\u003cbr\u003e Painting What’s Not There: Negative Space\u003cbr\u003e White: A Special Case\u003cbr\u003e Studies, Sketches, and Drafts  \u003cbr\u003e Undo\u003cbr\u003e Merging Colors: Working from One Color\u003cbr\u003e Working with Colored Paper\u003cbr\u003e Special Effects\u003cbr\u003e Lettering and Writing\u003cbr\u003e Layouts, Scribbles, and Storyboards\u003cbr\u003e Watercolor Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e How Much Is Your Picture Worth?\u003cbr\u003e Everything Ends: When Is a Picture Finished?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index“If you like urban bustle and disorganisation… you’ll love the book. It’s American, brash and makes no concessions to sensitivity, happily accosting you and telling you how it is”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– \u003ci\u003eThe Artist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFELIX SCHEINBERGER is an illustrator, artist, and designer. He is the author and illustrator of two other books on watercolors and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehas illustrated more than fifty children’s books in the last decade. His work has appeared in magazines including \u003ci\u003eHarvard Business Manager\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePsychology Today. \u003c\/i\u003eHe lives in Berlin, Germany.WATERCOLORS—IN OR OUT?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen we think of watercolor, many of us immediately picture sentimental landscapes and paintings of ruins and picturesque scenes\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e Although eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English artists established watercolor as a sophisticated painting medium, it often yields strangely negative reactions from contemporary artists. An entire generation quickly relegates it to a hobbyist’s medium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yet watercolor is far more than an amateur’s medium, as it requires intense concentration and practice. Once it’s put on paper, mistakes are difficult to remedy, and only when it is applied with confidence does it have a truly successful effect. Watercolor involves a certain degree of uncertainty, but it also teaches us to see. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Watercolor was the first technique to free the artist from the studio because it could easily be taken outdoors. It required no tubes, easels, canvases, or similar implements, only a box of paints and paper. Even today, watercolor is a tool that frees us from the studio, our laptops, and countless charging cables. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Watercolor is, however, not just a technique; it is almost an attitude. Watercolor always does what it wants. In a way, it is willful and anarchical. Therefore, for me, the secret to using watercolor to create pic-tures lies in striking a balance between control and letting go. Pictures are often only “really good” when they surprise us—when they reveal what we sensed and felt, but could not have consciously expressed. If we sacrifice the right amount of control in the artistic process, watercolor’s inherent qualities begin to work to our advantage. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book has two goals: to teach you watercolor techniques and to tell you something about color.\u003cbr\u003e However, it does not aim to explain, for example, how you can paint a certain sky in four steps. I seriously doubt whether readers learn more from such instruction books than they do by actually painting that sky. What if the sky should suddenly cloud over? Instead, this book wishes to show you the basic principles of watercolor paints, so you can flexibly apply them to whatever you want to achieve. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I imagine it’s a little like learning chords on a guitar. For me, it seems important that you learn the finger-ings, but what song you play is up to you. \u003cbr\u003e And don’t worry, everything that we need to know about color can be learned with a simple box of paints.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Whether watercolor painting is sophisticated and legit-imate or not isn’t the point. Watercolor can go anywhere. It is an autonomous, free, and creative medium. It makes the world our studio.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yours truly,\u003cbr\u003e Felix Scheinberger","brand":"Watson-Guptill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303384699109,"sku":"NP9780770435219","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780770435219.jpg?v=1767743333","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/urban-watercolor-sketching-isbn-9780770435219","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}