Favorite Books

This page will provide titles and authors of our favorite watercolour books.


Portrait from Rogger  Oncoy

Books I own and recommend:

• The Watercolor Landscape Techniques of 23 International Artists
• Interpreting Landscape in Watercolor, by Don Andrews
• How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself: Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects, by Nita Engle
• Jean Haines' Atmospheric Watercolours: Painting with Freedom, Expression and Style by Jean Haines
• Your Artist's Brain: Use the right side of your brain to draw and paint what you see - not what you think you see, Carl Purcell
• Creating Luminous Watercolor Landscapes, by Sterling Edwards
• Watercolor for the Fun of It - Getting Started by John Lovett
• Down by the Sea with Brush and Pen: Draw and Paint Beautiful Coastal Scenes by Claudia Nice
• Color Harmonies: Paint Watercolors Filled with Light, by Rose Edin, Dee Jepsen
• Painting Wild Landscapes In Watercolour, David Bellamy
• 600 Watercolor Mixes: Washes, Color Recipes and Techniques, Sharon Finmark

Books recommended by other AT members:

• Color and Light - A Guide for the Realist Painter, by James Gurney
• Powerful Water Colour Landscapes 37 tools for painting with impact,  by Catherine Gill
• Painting Portraits and Figures in Watercolour, by Mary Whyte
• Watercolor Unleashed New Directions for traditional painting techniques, by Julie Gilbert Pollard
• John Singer Sargent-two of the catalog raisonne series:
• -Figures and Landscapes 1883-1899 Vol. 5 by Richard Ormond
  --Figures and Landscapes 1900-1907 Vol. 7 by Richard Ormond