Painting in Abstract by Carole Robson

Painting in Abstract by Carole Robson is a complete guide to capturing the abstract beauty of the natural world in mixed media projects. Carole¡¯s book includes finished paintings and short exercises that encourage an experimental approach to painting the natural landscape.
Full of Carole¡¯s enthusiasm for her art, this book will inspure you to celebrate the natural world in all its glory. Throughout the book Carole will guide you through a variety of different media combinations, including watercolour, gouache, acrylic paint and indian ink. She also goes on to explore other mediums and techniques, teaching you what will combine well and which will resist each other to create interesting and unexpected effects.
Carole offers up techniques for developing concepts and improving composition, with a chapter devoted to the basics of line, shape, colour, tone, texture and surface pattern. She¡¯ll guide you through how to use all these elements to produce powerful work with impact. You¡¯l discover exciting new techniques like washing and spraying, how to ue improvise mark-maing tools and preparing collage papers alongside other printing and stencilling methods.
The subjects of the exercises vary, from close-up details to more distant views, and celebrate everything from wild flowers and seed heads to berries and leaves. Carole takes an inquisitive look into overlooked ditches, hedgerows and verges, but also revels in the traditional beauty of flower-rich meadows. You¡¯ll visit the tranquility of woodland scenes as well as the atmospheric wild of stormy skies and high seas.
This book offers an exciting route into creativity, whether you¡¯re a beginner or an enthusiast.
128 page Paperback. 216 x 280mm.
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