Capturing the Essence of a Place. Shapes, Gestures and Colour in Direct Watercolour
Explore a new approach to watercolour painting without using any preliminary drawings to paint directly with a brush on the spot.
This book is an excellent tool for learning to sketch on location. Through the "no drawing first" technique, readers will learnto use only watercolour and a brush to draw in notebooks, make quick urban sketches, keep visual journals and create compelling outdoor urban work. Designed like a workshop on the go, with more than fifty progressive exercises, this book invites you to experiment with watercolour by translating space and movement through shapes and color into masses and values rather than contours and strict rules of perspective. The author, a theatrical scenic painter, urban sketcher and urban sketching teacher, shows you how to represent the world around us. She encourages the reader to observe the place, to understand it, to learn how to choose the subject when capturing the place’s soul, preserving the sense of the fleetingness of the instant described. The themes include vegetation, buildings, forms of people in movement and stop-motion.