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 | | Master Disaster: Five Ways to Rescue Desperate Watercolors by Susan Webb Tregay ISBN-10: 9781581807950 ISBN-10: 1-58180-795-3 ISBN-13: 9781581807950 ISBN-13: 978-1-58180-795-0 Hardcover 2007-03-19 North Light Books Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description No more wimpy watercolors! Kill it or cure it! The end. It happens to the best of artists ... that frustrating point in a painting where you don't know how to finish it up, when to stop, or where to go from here. Too often this is the very same stage where half-finished paintings get stacked in the corner and written-off as "hopeless." This unique, workshop-style book will help you recognize these works not as "bad" or "failed" paintings, merely unfinished. What's more, you'll learn how to take these beautiful starts--that pale painting hiding in your closet or the bombs stashed under your bed--and turn them into finished, gutsy, exhibition-quality pieces. Follow Susan Webb Tregay's five steps to more successful watercolors, and learn how to finish your painting your way--with polish and pizzazz! You'll discover clean and easy solutions to your painting's problems, debunking once and for all that old myth that watercolor is unforgiving. Fifteen step-by-step demonstrations and many before-and-after examples illustrate the incredible difference these simple techniques can make in your art. With Master Disaster, you can stop dreading "the end," and start anticipating the big finish! | ||
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Watercolor saver When one has a stack of failed watercolors this book is a blessing. And I'd like to meet the learning watercolorist who hasn't such a stack. I would recommend this book to all students of that medium. Those who confess to not knowing everything there is to know! | ||
Worth the cost This book looked like a good one to add to my growing collection of watercolor books. I got the book browsed through it and thought, well it is alright. Later I was reviewing some paintings for a show, found one that was "just so-so" and thought I would try some of the suggestions from Susan's book, thinking it couldn't hurt. So I scrubbed and cropped away at it. Now, instead of a painting I was ready to discard, I have two purely eye catching watercolors. Can't wait to frame and show them. This one correction has paid for the book twice over. Strongly suggest it as an addition to a painters book collection. Mary Schiros | ||
Master of Disaster I found the information in this book to be very helpful in figuring out ways to rescue a watercolor painting. | ||
Master Disaster is a "must have!" Sue Webb Tregay's book, "Master Disaster", is one of the best art instruction books to come along in a very long time! As a professional artist for a number of years now, I was simply blown away by this book. I have never seen, in any other art book, such a widely diverse selection of artwork by ONE artist before! There is something for everyone here. Her ability to paint in many styles with widely divergent subject matter makes this book so unique. Couple that with her lively writing style, and "just do it" attitude, you'll want to race off to your studio to create your own masterpieces! Simply put, a "must have!" | ||
Excellent book! Susan Webb Tregay presents logical, methodical, and imaginative approaches to "fixing" disastrous watercolor paintings that would benefit painters utilizing all water-media from the amateur to the more experienced. Her book, "Master Disaster" is loaded with great illustrations and explanations that are easy to understand. I particularly like her flexible approach to fixing a painting, and I'm now using many of her suggestions. Additionally, unlike other painting instructors, Tregay's approach enables students to retain their individual style while incorporating her ideas for mastery. Many other instruction books are practically "paint by number" in approach, where you use the author's compositions, color pallette, technique, etc. That approach isn't particularly effective because it produces painting clones of the author. Tregay's approach eliminates that possibility. I think this is a GREAT watermedia instruction book and highly recommend it to others. | ||