Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines
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Manufacturer: North Light Books
Author: Linda Kemp
Binding: Hardcover
Publication Date: 2004-03
Publisher: North Light Books
Label: North Light Books
Number Of Pages: 128
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Editorial Review
This is the only title on the market that gives readers a comprehensive look at negative painting. Linda Kemp shows beginning and advanced artists how to harness the power of these often overlooked areas around a painting's focal point.
The book is brimming with easy-to-follow, interactive elements, including:
*Step-by-step techniques, exercises and projects
*Do-it-yourself tests and worksheets
*Troubleshooting suggestions and secrets
*Straightforward diagrams for color and design
Whether they want to paint florals, landscapes or patterns in nature, readers will come away with the skills they need to make their next work more striking than ever!
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Customer Reviews
colorful approach to composition 
2007-07-20
some author/artists have a unique ability to provide the right image and word picture to illustrate a concept. This artist & this book demonstrate that particular talent. It is an inspiring book that will cause your palms to itch with anticipation for an opportunity to try the ideas for yourself.
Wonderful way to paint! 
2007-07-12
At first I was afraid of negative painting, but now, it is so relaxing and the outcoming is always delightfully surprising!
Really good information! 2007-05-12
This book has helped me learn to use more paint, more water, loosen up my paintings, and go back in and paint around "found" interesting things.... I love it!
Great addition 2007-01-15
I love Linda Kemp's concepts and have enjoyed trying new techniques. Good pictures and easy guidelines to follow to see your own styles emerge.
Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines: A Positive Approach to Negative Painting 2007-01-03
Quite helpful. Am just starting to use this book.
really useful 2008-06-02
Well-laid-out basic procedures. Two pages in the back which are truly useful checklists for planning and starting paintings. I am excited about applying this method to subjects I have painted in the past.
a fresh, fluid approach to negative painting 2008-04-10
Linda's work is so bold and fresh it borders on the abstract. The approach is groundbreaking, and the resulting work is rich and fluid and inspiring.
The book starts out with suggestions on materials and supplies. She then leads you through very simple exercises to teach the basics of understanding negative shapes. She also provides instruction on modifying shapes, composition strategies, and color. Then she leads you through more and more intricate layers. It's an entirely new way of thinking. I have used these techniques in my own work and with my college students as well. Artists at any level can benefit from her ideas.
(I also took a workshop from her and highly recommend her as an instructor.)
a new approach 2008-04-06
This author takes watercolor to a useful and understandable technique for the person new to this media. Her directions are clear, consise and knowledgable. Her demonstrations, while challenging to duplicate, are easy to follow. I highly recommend her book to anyone seeking to widen their understanding of what watercolor can do for their art.
Fascinating 2008-03-26
This is an original book that will expand your painting skills by providing you with techniques to approach painting through negative spaces. Everything is explained meticulously in step by step diagrams that leave nothing unclear. It is a valuable addition to painters who want to expand their repertoire of skills. However, the technique explained in this book, fascinating as it is, has its limitations, as it can only work in pictures where the negative spaces are darker than the positive ones (you will understand how and why when you read it). Should the painter want their negative spaces to be lighter in color than the shapes depicted, this technique would not work.
Maybe it is a first step and the author, or somebody else, can expand the possibilities of this technique further; what we learn in this book is certainly not the last word on negative-space painting. The author explores mostly landscapes, and the results of her specific approach gives results that are highly original, but that have a specific eerie-spooky character. Since I haven't tried applying the technique yet, I cannot tell whether that eerie quality is an inevitable consequence of that technique, or is it the result of the author's/painter's specific choices, and whether a different painter could get results of a totally different quality.
Despite these limitations, it is a very useful approach to get to know, especially for painters who do not just want to learn a new trick, but who also want to learn how to see in new ways. Highly recommended.
A true creative guide 2007-11-05
This is truly one of the best tutorial and creative books written on how to paint with watercolors. Linda Kemp is a visionary artist and her work resonates her masterful accomplishments. It's hard to combine the technical aspects of picture making while nurturing the creative elements of painting. Linda shows the reader how to do both. She takes the student on a fundamental learning guide with her work that is understandable and achievable. She does not ignore the importance of composition and color in picture making and the book illustrates many useful design concepts that are important in picture making. Many watercolor books are filled with pretty pictures, Linda Kemp's book is a look into an accomplished body of work as well as a useful reference book for both beginner and experineced painters. A real treasure for the artist's library.
