Ana Victoria Calderón

Creative Watercolor & Mixed Media (eBook, ePUB)

A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Stunning Effects

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A guide to painting beautiful watercolors and combining them with other user-friendly materials-plus projects to test out what you've learned. In Creative Watercolor and Mixed Media, popular watercolor artist, instructor, and author Ana Victoria Calderon shares her simple step-by-step techniques for painting exciting and colorful motifs by combining watercolor with a variety of other user-friendly materials.

• Start with the essentials-paint, paper, and brushes-then learn about the featured mediums for mixing, including masking fluid, gold leaf, bleach, salt, and alcohol
• Take a step-by-step look at fundamental watercolor techniques
• Learn to paint a variety of striking organic motifs and surface effects, including stirring skies and clouds, sparkling galaxies, flowing oceans, and dazzling crystals
• Find great project ideas for stylish gifts and stationery

Whether you're new to the medium or are looking to add new techniques to your watercolor practice, go grab a brush, paints, and some easy-to-use materials and take a beautiful creative journey with watercolor! Perfect for all skill levels, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781631598814
• Artikelnr.: 60571598

Autorenporträt

The author of several titles published by Quarry Books-Creative Watercolor, Color Harmony for Artists, Creative Watercolor and Mixed Media, and Creative Drawing: Symbols and Sacred Geometry-Ana Victoria Calderon is a Mexican/American watercolor artist and teacher with a bachelor's degree in Information Design and continued studies in Fine Arts. Her licensed artwork can be seen in retail outlets throughout the United States and Europe on a wide variety of products. Ana teaches in-person workshops and hosts creative retreats in Tulum, Mexico, as well as summer watercolor retreats throughout Europe. She has taught more than 100,000 students on Skillshare, where she is a Top Teacher, and she also teaches thousands of Spanish-speaking students on Domestika. See more of Ana's work on Instagram (@anavictoriana), YouTube (Ana Victoria Calderon), and Facebook (Ana Victoria Calderon Illustration). She lives in Mexico City, Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE
Why Watercolors Are So Great to Mix with Other Mediums
 
1 MIXED MEDIA: WATERCOLOR & MORE
WATERCOLOR
GOUACHE: Adding Opacity to Translucent Watercolors
ALL THAT SHIMMERS: Metallic, Pearlescent & Iridescent Watercolors
SPECIALTY WATERCOLORS: Neon, Multi pigmented & Rare Pigments
INKS
BRUSHES
PAPER
OTHER TOOLS & SUPPLIES
 
2 BASIC TECHNIQUES & BEYOND
WATERCOLOR PROPERTIES
ESSENTIAL WATERCOLOR HOW-TO
EXPERIMENTING WITH MIXED MEDIA
GALLERY OF MIXED MEDIA EXPERIMENTS
 
3. HORIZONS
PREPARING YOUR SURFACE FOR PAINTING SKIES
OPEN SKIES
BILLOWING CLOUDS
OCEAN SUNRISE
LIGHTNING STORM
Project: Message Hidden in the Clouds
 
4. CELESTIAL SKIES
PHASES OF THE MOON
CONSTELLATIONS & COSMIC TEXTURES
SUNS & PLANETS
Project: Outer-Space Collage
 
5. GEMS & CRYSTALS
CRYSTAL SHAPES
AMETHYST CLUSTER
NATURAL EMERALD
LOOSE & EXPERIMENTAL HEALING CRYSTALS
Project: Birthstone Chart
 
6. EARTH & SACRED GEOMETRY
ANCIENT SHAPES
THE SEED OF LIFE
PRESSING FLOWERS & LEAVES
DECORATING PRESSED BOTANICALS
Project: Ultimate Mixed-Media Mandala Masterpiece
 
TEMPLATES
RESOURCES/REFERENCES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INDEX