Painting Light and Shadow in Watercolor: Learn How to Simplify the Light and Shadow Shapes You See to Paint Dramatic Watercolors

Push Your Watercolor Painting To The Next Level By Designing With Shapes, Shadows, And Highlights. Deepen The Expressive Nature Of Your Paintings As You Capture The Subject's Luminosity. Master Painter William B. Lawrence Offers Hands-on Techniques That Help You Bring Your Imagination To Life. This volume demonstrates how to use shadow, light, and color to create a watercolor painting that has substance and depth. The author instructs readers to look past surface detail to see subjects in large, unified shapes of light and shade. He teaches readers to use this new way of seeing to design the shapes into powerful statements-while conveying a convincing sense of light and time of day in their paintings, with step-by-step demonstrations. He shows how to adjust and exaggerate colors and temperatures for impact, and design a dramatic composition around big shapes of light and shadow. Readers will also be shown how to use light to express emotion; paint the effects of strong light; capture light at a specific time of day; develop harmony of color; paint the light, not the place and catch a subject's luminosity