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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Master Disaster helpful for all artist mediums!
Our studio has been fortunate enough to have offered a workshop given by Susan Webb Tregay last year.
Based on Master Disaster-- the students raved about the 2 day workshop that pushed them to finish those paintings in an exciting way.
As an artist myself, using oils mostly, I found the chapters that dealt with composition and design to be SO helpful that my paintings are better for it. When I am starting a new painting, I use the book for reference to check my composition before getting too far into it.
I do believe I have SAVED many paintings- and I do not do watercolor!
Susan has found the tried and true ways to, "make the painting work."
Plus, to be able to convey her vast experience- simply- is yet another talent she possesses!
Buy it, you'll like it!
[Wednesday, December 31, 2008]
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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!
[Saturday, October 18, 2008]
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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
[Monday, January 14, 2008]
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