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Draw and Paint Fairies in Watercolour Sara Burrier

Draw and Paint Fairies in Watercolour By Sara Burrier

Draw and Paint Fairies in Watercolour by Sara Burrier


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Valuable resource of tried and tested rules for beginners and intermediate painters.

Draw and Paint Fairies in Watercolour Summary

Draw and Paint Fairies in Watercolour: How to Bring Your Fairy Realm Art to Life by Sara Burrier

Its not for nothing that watercolour is called the magical media. The colours have a life of their own: they blossom, bloom, and bleed, some mixing, some showing through, some pigments merging, others separating, some sinking back into the hollows of the paper surface. And in the company of a true magician in this media, artist Sara Burrier, you can now harness these amazing techniques to create your own magical worldspainting fairies and their wonderful habitats.
This is a valuable resource of tried and tested rules for beginners and intermediate painters, ready to take their fairy art more seriously: working on drawing skills, character design, and most important of all, watercolour painting techniques.

Draw and Paint Fairies in Watercolour Reviews

February 2015

This delightful book by Sara Burrier, lets your imagination fly with over 75 techniques for bringing the world of fairies to life. There's information on how to use proportion and anatomy to draw convincing figures, add costumes, wings and accessories, and bring them together into well-composed paintings. Throughout the book there are tinted panels giving tips to watch our for as you're working - 68 by the author herself and twelve by other artist's and illustrators whose work is included to show different styles and treatment of the subject.

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About Sara Burrier

Sara Burrier is an illustrator of whimsical romantic women filled with light, and a teacher of drawing, painting, and imagination at the Des Moines Art Center. She sells her art worldwide online through Etsy, and encourages other artists through her life and work on her blog http://warriorprincessdream.blogspot.co.uk.

Table of Contents

Prelims
My fairy world
Section One: The rules of drawing
Tools and materials
Pencils and sketching pencils
Erasers and their different types of use
Papers and sketchbooks, for field and studio
Inspiration board
How to build it
Where to place it
Gathering pieces to pin to it
Drawing the figure
Gesture basics and their importance (step-by-step sequences included)
Anatomy of the figure
Proportions and body types of fairy
Outline and structure of the face
A wings thumbprint and design
Poses: rules for engaging your viewer
Whimsical poses
Reference materials
Why work from reference
Finding reference material
Transferring reference to the drawing
Making the reference your own
Developing character design
Gathering ideas from reference, life, and inspiration board
Costume structure and drapery and how it defines a character
Hair and halos
Texture and pattern, cultural diversity
Adding the little things, details and accessories
Environment
Establishing a location
Composition and placement
Planning the light source
Laying out the details and textures
Section Two: The rules of Watercolour
Tools and materials
Brushes and their different marks
Palettesrectangle or circle
Paint and its properties
Paper choices
Extras and how they add to the painting
Colour
Pan vs. tube paint
Choosing a primary palette or two
Colour wheel and colour groups
Colour mixing
Paint vs. water ratio
Choosing a colour palette for painting
Prepping the workspace
Setting up your table (materials, reference, etc.)
Prepping and baptizing the paper
Masking your whites
Artist health during work time
Paint application
Wet on wet techniques
Wet on dry techniques
Blending the paint
Glazing your artwork
Skin glazing and layering
Adding volume to clothes through light and shadow
Translucent wings and fairy dust
Creating texture rich environments
Adding the glow and light
Final tips to get you through
Building up the colour
Getting through the middle part of a painting
Adding details adds believability
Finishing touches and layers with other dry mediums
Section Three : Rules that other fairy artists live by
In this part, professional artists are given a double page spread each and invited to share their rules with readers, demonstrating some of the secrets of their craft and showing what practices guide their creative output.
Resources, Index & Credits

Additional information

GOR007437414
9781782211006
1782211004
Draw and Paint Fairies in Watercolour: How to Bring Your Fairy Realm Art to Life by Sara Burrier
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Search Press Ltd
2014-09-03
128
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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