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Author: Gordon MacKenzie
ISBN : 1440309051
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This special 10th-anniversary collection combines two of the best-loved North Light watercolor guides available: The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook and The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook: Landscapes. Clarifying and simplifying the various aspects of painting with watercolor, Gordon MacKenzie's The Complete Watercolorist's Essential Notebook will encourage and challenge you with new possibilities.

Rather than a list of rules, this is a collection of principles, concepts and general information designed to expand your creative process. Mackenzie shares with you tips, techniques, ideas and lessons for a sure path to creative fulfillment and better watercolor paintings.

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• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: North Light Bks (October 19, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1440309051
• ISBN-13: 978-1440309052
• Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 8.9 x 11.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

{PRETITLE} The Complete Watercolorist's Essential Notebook: A treasury of watercolor secrets discovered through decades of painting and experimentation {POSTTITLE}

This is a really nice book. Super colorful, beautifully designed, easy to understand, multiple visual examples on nearly every page. Great for visual learners but also includes plenty of written commentary. It includes really important stuff like quality comparison of different brand paints - by color! All the way to experimental techniques that the author has tried with success. I've helped teach drawing and watercoloring to architecture students and I will definitely refer to this next time I teach.

I wrote this review to make note that this book ALSO INCLUDES: The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook - Landscapes by the same author. Half-way through the book you will come across the latter, exactly the same book that is sold separately. It does not say this anywhere on the cover. It only says it in the product description on the Amazon.com product page and on the back cover. So you get TWO BOOKS in ONE. Sweet.

Enjoy. Ta.

By aredaval

Wow. The minute I scanned through the book, I knew it was good. It is printed on a nice heavy paper (it starts with good paper, doesn't it), and the presentation is gorgeous. All the examples are beautiful and inspiring. I produced the first watercolor I am proud to show by reproducing loosely one of the examples (Summer Choristers page 23).

It starts with paint, brushes, other tools, and walks you through the basics. And it goes deeper and deeper, all the way to specific techniques about landscape subjects. Every topic covered, the author is spot on, and the illustrations are plenty and large.

Even if you are not a watercolorist, you will get some value out of the composition, light and shadows, colors and other general artistic considerations.

Wishing I had found it sooner, and ordering another copy for my mother now.

By Alexis Guinebertiere