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The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook - Keep Painting!: A Treasury of Tips to Inspire Your Watercolor Painting Adventure Kindle Edition

by Gordon MacKenzie (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Recharge your creative spirit and rediscover the magic that is watercolor!

Every watercolorist needs a creative kick in the pants now and then--to keep seeking inspiration when feeling uninspired, to keep going when a painting has stalled, to keep trying when a technique isn't easy to master...sometimes just to keep painting, period.

When your artistic well has run dry, you must replenish it. Whether you have spent decades painting in watercolor or are just beginning, the tips and secrets shared by best-selling author and artist Gordon MacKenzie provide the perfect guide when the going gets tough. Get excited about watercolor again as he shows you how to:

   • Find better approaches to a tired composition
   • Engage viewers more fully with color, value and well-placed "wee people"
   • Reinvent a scene that outshines your reference photographs
   • Dramatize a landscape by focusing on the weather
   • Nurture your own growth by sharing what you know with others
"You don't have to paint the way you paint now. You don't have to paint what you paint now." --Gordon MacKenzie

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About the Author

Gordon MacKenzie is an artist and cartoonist. After working for Hallmark Cards, he started to give workshops and tutorials centered on maintaining creativity in the corporate world. His workshops were further developed into his book Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace. He lives in Kansas.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07B26Z9RD
Publisher ‏ : ‎ North Light Books (27 December 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 80654 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 144 pages

Best Sellers Rank: 786,089 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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- 721 in Art Encyclopaedias
- 1,000 in Watercolour Painting

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Gordon MacKenzie is the author of North Light's bestselling watercolour book, The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook. He has been a popular artist and teacher for more than 30 years and has mounted more than 25 solo exhibitions. His work hangs in many private and corporate collections and has been featured in magazines.

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Reviewed in Canada on 17 March 2024

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This is NOT another intro-to-watercolour. It’s an excellent book with a lot of pointers on a variety of topics that challenge me as an ’intermediate’ watercolourist. Beautiful photographs and very well written.

Ivlia

Muy buena compra

Reviewed in Spain on 6 December 2019

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Buen libro. Me encanta este artista.
Me parece fabuloso.
El libro es perfecto. Buena encuadernación. Buenas explicaciones. Buena fotografía.
Pegas que pudieran añadirse: Viene todo en inglés. Cuando lo cojo debo agarrar el diccionario de inglés si o si. Por otro lado terminas aprendiendo un montón de inglés.

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Sandy Feet

Easy to read, Great examples

Reviewed in the United States on 20 January 2018

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This book is an excellent reference book. I like the simple language, the image examples, and practice suggestions. I have never formally studied art but I'm an academic that researches and learns all I can about a topic that interests me. I have been painting watercolor for about 8 years but just decided to get serious about it a couple of years ago. MacKenzie touches on several topics; the main topics that interests me is composition and color. I'm learning a lot and will read this several times as I practice his suggestions.

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