Book Blurb
Artist Ann Blockley is renowned for her innovative approach to traditional subjects. Following the huge success of her previous book, Experimental Flowers in Watercolour, she now explores ways to interpret landscape. Packed with stunning examples of her colourful, expressive work, this book encourages you to experiment with the same techniques in your own watercolour painting to develop a personal style.
Techniques covered include combining water-based paint and ink with other media such as gesso and collage to create dramatic effects; manipulating paint with materials such as plastic wrap (clingfilm); tearing, layering and reassembling paintings into watercolour collages; and developing textures and marks made using fabrics and other found objects. Throughout the book Ann offers her personal commentary on how her paintings were created, giving us a unique insight into the mind of the artist.
Both practical and inspirational, this glorious book is the ideal companion for watercolour painters who want to take their work a step further.
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Toot's Review by Stacy Sabala
This book contains the artist’s interpretation of landscapes into watercolor paintings. She used techniques included water based paint and acrylic inks. Her paintings are based a lot on the English Cotswolds which is an area of woodlands, fields, hills and hedges.
She includes how to explanations with pictures of the effects. She does a great job with these explanations and the descriptions of each painting that she includes. She provides details for the techniques she uses also. The techniques she uses to obtain different looks are numerous. In one painting she uses fern leaves. For other paintings she used different types of salt to add a speckling effect. In others she explained how to use plastic wrap for a unique effect in the texture and for depth. It was a fascinating book and it was full of beautiful paintings.
I favor landscape paintings. I loved her painting titled “Autumn Magic”. The colors she used were a beautiful combination. I also liked the painting “In your Dreams” which was a great example of the combined elements she used. However my favorite paintings were the ones of the ocean.
I recommend this book to anyone who likes to look at beautiful pictures and wants to know how to paint them. I give it a 4 out of 5.
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