Watercolor Expressions: 123 Artists Create Moods with Brush and Paint Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a beautiful collection of watercolor paintings featuring a wide range of different subjects including nature, animals, people, landscapes and still lives. It will offer inspiration for years to come.
Each picture lists the artist, tile, size and paper used. A brief comment by the artist is also included. All images are placed one to a page. Contact information for each artist is included in the back.
Some of my favorite paintings include a colorful, energetic landscape titled the Blue Shadow Side by Harold Gregor and a portrait of four little girls of various ethnic backgrounds by Judithe Randall. I liked the whimsical mushroom piece called Magical Forest VIII by Jerry Little and the nostalgic tricycle by D. Denghausen. I also enjoyed a polar bear by Colleen Newport Stevens called Midnight on the Ice, done mostly with a wet-in-wet technique.
This book is a great addition to any watercolor artists or enthusiast's library. It also makes a great gift.

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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 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

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