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Watercolor Expressions: 126 Artists Express Moods with Paint and Brush
Watercolor Expressions 126 Artists Express Moods with Paint and Brush In this lyrical collection of more than 130 works, each artist expresses a particular mood through his or her art. Happiness, anger, sorrow, triumph, despair, joy-all are here, presenting the wonderful range of human emotions in a showcase of paintings from some of today?s finest talent. What does it mean to create expressive watercolors?"To ... more »imbue a thought, a word, a sign, or symbol with emotion-to use values and color, playing them off each other as a musician plays different chords of music, choosing them as carefully as poets choose their words. As we sit before our subject, we forget all else; we are one with our subject. All we have are colors, lines, and values. We add mediums, shapes, and forms in pictorial space to make a composition. We have color choices to make-how light, how dark, which ones to place next to each other. We?re so careful about how they touch, the wonderful edges they make. We are in a different world, the world of painting-and all of us have our own world, and this is how we put it down?" --from the introduction by Betty Lou Schlemm, AWS-DF« less