Watercolor Class
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This has to be my all time favourite art instruction book. So many books by artists try to show techniques which enable the would be painter to produce a copy of their work. There are no 'step by steps' in this volume.
Michael Crespo will inspire you to find your own style, and even use his projects to bounce off some place completely new and unexpected! He encourages anarchy. The text describing Crespo's set exercises, and critiquing Crespo's students' efforts, are sneakily including snippets of art history, the rules of composition and colour and perspective etc. with lots of warmth and humour, so you absorb a lot without even realising it.
I've learnt so much - and even produced some reasonable watercolours in the doing, even tho' I say so myself! It's a book that I dip back into time and time again for ideas and inspiration and never tire of.
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An excellent course of study for the dedicated student.
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This book will well serve both beginning students with a serious desire to master watercolor, and experienced artists who want to revitalize their painting. The book is arranged in a series of exercises that are fun, thought-provoking, and not at all difficult, even for complete beginners. The text for each lesson is well-written. Crespo compresses a lot of useful art theory into brief but very usable form. Although the author uses some of his own paintings as demonstrations,the majority of the illustrations show student work. The pictures are beautiful in their own right. They also offer great encouragement to beginners who may be intimidated by seeing too much technically perfect work in conventional art instruction books. I have been working with watercolor for nearly thirty years, but I still learned something new from every page of this book!
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