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Beginner Intermediate Advanced
Skill Building
Art Supplies
Paper Watercolor Paper Paints |
John Singer Sargent Contemporary Artists
Lars Lerin Websites to Learn More
WatercolorPainting.com |
Recommended Art Books
| Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes The best and most comprehensive book I've ever read on the greatest watercolourist of all time! This book actually has Sargent's watercolors as the focus, not as an aside. |
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| Leonardo's Notebooks I saw Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks at a wonderful exhibit at the Birmingham Museum of Art several years ago. Amazing! This book puts you into the mind of the greatest sketcher of all time. Read it, copy it, be inspired! |
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| Facial Expression by Gary Faigin If you want to paint portraits, you need this book. It's an excellent book on drawing people. A wonderful free Craftsy class by Gary Faigin! This really shows portrait drawing basics clearly. There are more paid classes by Faigin if you want to continue as well. |
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| Painting Portraits and Figures in Watercolor by Mary Whyte A nice view into the studio and method of a very good modern portrait artist. A lot of the paintings are from Working South. In this book she explains more of her painting techniques. |
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Working South by Mary Whyte Pure inspirational portraits. Lovely paintings about the manual laborers of the South. From milliners to fishermen, all the disappearing skilled trades are disappearing, but Mary Whyte has captured them in a wonderful way. I personally prefer the sketches at the back to the finished paintings! |
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| Robert Wade Painting More Than the Eye Can See One of the world's master watercolor teachers. |
Out of print but lots of libraries have it. |
Art Supplies
M. Graham & Co.
Beautiful pigments mixed with honey. My favorite pigments by far!
Twinrocker Paper
I use primarily Twinrocker paper in heavy art or art and 0 on their white scale.
It's a gorgeous handmade paper that has just enough texture but shows
pigments beautifully. I'm very impressed with it!
Note: Twinrocker paper sometimes behaves badly with masking fluid,
pulling up in pieces. If this starts to happen, go very slowly with
masking removal. Everything can usually be salvaged. Use Incredible
White Masking - it works well!
Daniel Smith, Fine Artists' Materials
Gorgeous watercolor paints under their own name, very good quality.
Cheap Joe's Art Supplies
Reasonably priced, but not cheap, art supplies. Don't order Arches paper from them
since they put a sticker on individual pieces that leaves residual stickiness.
Very frustrating to find out halfway through a painting!
They also carry lighter weight Twinrocker paper.
Best synthetic round brushes available!
Dick Blick
I've been buying more and more supplies here. Probably because it has a good stock of artist quality materials and there is a store 20 minutes away. The only art store in Atlanta besides Utrecht (which is owned by Blick.)
How sad is it that a major city - with an Art Institute - has no art stores? (I won't even talk about the lack of good art museums...)
Happy Painting!
