Favorite Books

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


Portrait from Rogger  Oncoy
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

3 comments:

  1. 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

    Both Oils and WC, portraits and landscapes.



    -J.M.W. Turner-How to Paint Like Turner by the Tate Museum

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  2. Favourite Water Colour Books

    -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

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  3. Thanks Doug, your recommendations have been included in the list above. Danielle

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