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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > Watercolours
Learn how to paint relaxing landscapes, exciting seascapes and
portraits with personality. Whatever you want to paint, William
Newton can show you how. Starting from first principles, this
thorough guide demonstrates the breadth and depth of William's
watercolour painting expertise. In addition to beautiful detailed
projects covering architecture, still life and other classic
scenes, this book contains sections on colour and tone, the
materials you will need, key watercolour painting techniques as
well as vital information on perspective and drawing; all explained
and illustrated for ease of use. This book was previously published
as William Newton's Complete Guide to Watercolour Painting and is
now made available in paperback.
This is the first book in over a century to examine the important
work of the watercolour artist and illustrator Frederick Walker
(1840-1875) and his closest artistic allies. He was greatly admired
(and collected) by Vincent van Gogh and was described by Millais as
'the greatest artist of the century' and yet his premature death at
the age of 35 cut short his promising career. Walker, together with
his close friends George John Pinwell (1842-1875) and John William
North (1842-1924), forged new artistic identities that sought the
perfection of the world around them and the distillation of beauty
from seemingly mundane subjects. Donato Esposito focuses successive
chapters on the lives and works of each of the core members of
Walker's group, charting their unconventional journey from a
loosely bound collective rooted in the London-based black-and-white
world of commercial illustration to a renowned grouping known as
the Idyllists, respected and eagerly collected by galleries and
private individuals in Europe, America and Australia. The book,
which reproduces many of the Idyllists' works in colour for the
first time, represents a vital contribution to the literature on
Victorian art and restores the Idyllists to their rightful place in
the history of British 19th-century art.
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