3-hour Watercolor Still Life Technique Examples

Author: Ding Congwei
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: Still-life painting with gouache is an important means and approach for basic training in color and form, and also a mandatory subject for entrance exams in higher art colleges. The growth of a painter's qualities and abilities requires a combination of theory and practice. Only through long-term practice can thinking habits and hands-on skills be fully developed, and only by continuously receiving theoretical support during the process of appreciating, copying, and imagining paintings can color and form skills be improved. Without accumulating small steps, one cannot reach a thousand miles. Taking things seriously in the present is the condition and guarantee for achieving pleasing results in still-life painting with gouache. This book is a preparatory teaching material for candidates of higher art colleges, focusing on how to paint gouache still-life within 3 hours. It includes 11 examples of step-by-step demonstrations for still-life painting with gouache and over 25 sample paintings for candidates to copy. Both the demonstrations and sample paintings are accompanied by corresponding textual introductions and analyses.