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The Masters
Speak...
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...about
Technique |
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The numbers at the end of each quote references the
book or workshop it is take from - these can be found at the bottom of
this page.
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- "Even
mistakes or accidents can be transformed into new ways of painting
your
subject, new extensions to your creative repertoire." Lawrence
Wood (1)
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- "I am
fighting a constant impulse to make my pictures as busy as possible,
trying to be brave enough to leave things out." Kim Atkinson
(1)
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- "A
group of pre-eminent illustrators agreed that fine drawing was 80%
"seeing and 20% understanding structure." Ed Whitney (2)
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- "An
artist is paid for his vision, not his reporting." Tom Lynch
(2)
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- "Any
artist's style has three elements: - his theory of vision, - his
philosophy or view of the world - his use of color." Rex
Brandt (2)
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- "Copying the masters is the best way to learn to paint, to learn to
see." Helen Van Wyk (2)
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- "The
principles of painting really paint your picture. If you learn the
basic principles, you can paint anything. If you understand it, you
can do it." Helen Van Wyk (2)
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- "Painting the first underlayer in a new watercolor with unworried
freshness and sparkling color is easy. Finishing the watercolor by
adding the "icing on the cake" - the final calligraphic lines
and small color accents - is pure joy." Robert Wood (2)
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- "Put a
strong dark in early, near your center of interest, to serve as a value
scale. Nothing can be darker." Tom Lynch(2)
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- "The
amateur is afraid of boldness, the professional is afraid of
timidity." Ed Whitney (3)
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- "I
don't want it true - instead, I want a beautiful lie!" Ed
Whitney (3)
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- "If it
looks right when it's wet - it's wrong!" Ed Whitney (3)
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- "Practice and more practice is the only way your work will benefit
from what you have learned." Zoltan Szabo (4)
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- "Measure success by your last painting, not by someone
else's." Pat Dews (5)
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- Watercolor Master Class - Lawrence
Wood
- Conversations in Paint - Charles
Dunn
- Learn Watercolor the Edgar Whitney Way
- Ron Ranson
- Creative Discoveries in Watermedia -
Pat Dews
- Color-by-Color - Zoltan Szabo
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