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# Watercolor Unleashed: New Directions for Traditional Painting Techniques Paperback – April 5, 2013

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## Customer Reviews

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    EXCELLENT BOOK AND FULLY COLOR ILLUSTRATED
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 15, 2020*

This is a great instructional book, full of excellent tutorials and "how to" material.I'm a retired Arts professor and I have an extensive library of art books. If there's a book I don't like I have no problem sending it back.  I'm very particular about what books I keep and this one is a keeper. From the watercolor essential supplies to drawing, compositing, paint consistency, color simplification, different lessons for negative painting, and how to spice up watercolors with acrylics, and plenty of water, floral, and natural landscape lessons, this book is a real gem!  The author artist goes into detail on this and more with every page full of color and step by step instructions.Even the few pages in reference with acrylic adds an interesting way to enhance the watercolors. You wouldn't know there is any acrylic in it because they are thinned out and are mere touches here and there.  They are not obvious, and appear to be just like watercolor.  If you don't like that approach, you still can apply watercolor instead and it doesn't change anything.  All the principles still hold fast.  The work is still great!  It has 123 pages of material, not counting the bio, acknowledgments, and an index at the back of the book.I've seen this artist work online and it is far more brilliant than the cheap pulp it is printed on in this book.  The brilliance of her real colors just can't  flash or come out like her paintings online and on bideo.  The book isn't printed on quality paper.  However the lessons are clear and she does give the colors she uses and all the materials so you really can't go wrong in finding your way to bright vibrant painting results.  If the lessons in the content were not good, I would give one less star for the quality of the book paper.  For these prices you would expect North light publications to have better print like the books in their past.  But because the education you get from this book, as well as the content, I still keep it at five stars!

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    THOUGHT THIS WAS A WATERCOLOR BOOK, BUT not so...
  

*by S***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 1, 2013*

I recently received "Watercolor Unleashed, New Directions...",but actually this bookshould be titled "Working with Mixed Media", as the author used a lot of pagesfor acrylic painting instructions, buying acrylic materials, and mixing acrylicsinto watercolor painting projects. The reader is left with the thought that a personwithout previous painting experience might think that one must lock in darkshading on a watercolor painting with the use of acrylics, which naturally changesthe painting from a true watercolor to a mixed media project. Surely this isfeasible, but not recommended in most art circles.  The use of acrylics in a watercolorpainting is normally thought of as a last resort to save an otherwise nice project,by correcting a mistake with the use of opaque acrylics. Watered down and used sparingly,they can help touch up a mistake.On page 7 of this book, the author talks about sealing the finished painting withseveral coats of varnish. Is she referring to a watercolor painting? I have never heardor imagined doing such a thing to a watercolor painting. In my 10 yearsof art classes with various experienced teachers, no one has suggested this process.For certain, now that I am teaching watercolor classes, I would not introduce the useof varnishing. Why use watercolor paints at all?  Just use acrylics and teach it well.I have sealed oil paintings, but never watercolor or acrylic.  Normally considering myself astraight thinker who understands data in a book, when the author says it's a must to do severalcoats of varnish, I am obviously confused.I'm trying not to trash this book, knowing a great deal of thought must have gone intoit's preparation and execution. However, I found the content confusing when it startsdiscussing Plein Air materials on page 8 followed by color theory, both subjectsdiscussed before the chapter on page 23 that introduces drawing and composing. Iguess it's in the eyes of the beholder which comes first, the drawing and composingor the color theory?Perhaps if as I find my way through the contents, I will grab onto a nugget or two that I canuse, but after some exploration, I did not find anything I thought of as a new direction,as the title of the book suggests, "Watercolor Unleashed, A new direction for traditionalpainting techniques".Books cost money and we should trust the information given. A couple very goodwatercolor books that stay with the media, which I thoroughly recommend are,"Dance with Light" by Elizabeth Kincaid,and/or "Watercolor Depth and Realism" by Laurie Humble.Both are easy to follow because they are well organized with materials that will supportwatercolor artists, beginners through advanced.

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    Is this a quick print on demand edition?
  

*by R***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 25, 2019*

As all the other reviewers have said, Julie Gilbert Pollard is an excellent teacher and her book has well thought out exercises to walk you through her painting process.What I haven’t seen in other’s comments is a review of the book’s printed quality. I was surprised to see “North Light First Edition” when the book I received is obviously a print on demand. The paper is low quality and the color reproductions of Julie’s artwork are terrible. I have seen Julie’s artwork first hand and the photos in this book do not do it justice!

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