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The "Artist's Pocket Guide to Better Painting" written and produced by Jean Pederson, contains a range of information for artists. You will find it to be a handy reference for both overview and details about your painting process.
Jean Pederson brings together all kinds of loose ends that are not often covered in other artist workshops and training programs. It is a good companion for Jean's new video Wet Glazing Watercolor Portrait.
Pocket Guide Description:
Jean Pederson's booklet, Artist's Pocket Guide to Better Painting, (20 pages, 5"x7", coated, spiral bound) is a concentrated overview of the elements and principles of design. Pederson has produced the booklet to act as a practical reminder of ones artistic options while in the process of painting.
She presents questions to enable the artist to think about their options and improve a specific painting. For example, Pederson has you ask yourself, "What is my story? How will I tell my story in visual form? How can I organize my ideas?"
This pocket guide in not a review of design principles, but rather acts as a memory jog to help artists review their choices and perhaps change their direction. Pederson has included mini examples of design styles that may help a painting. She reviews how you may, by craftsmanship, design or personal language, among others, better communicate your intentions. It is a handy check list that is a useful addition to your tool kit of supplies.
Contents:
- How to use this guide
- Questions to ask yourself as you prepare to paint
- Style- Visual examplse
- Artist's Intention-Ways to communicate your intention
- Elements of design
- Building blocks for designing and painting
- Principles of design
- Ways for organizing the elements
- Perspective - creating the illusion of depth
- Assessing a painting - using this guide to assess a painting
- Bits of advice
Product Details:
* Coated Spiral Bound: 20 pages
* Language: English
* Product Dimensions: 5 X 7 inches
Selected Scenes From Our Catalog
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I also wanted to give you some words about your little Pocket Guide to Better Painting. This book is a real gem. What I like about it is how complete it is but yet it's been put down in a very well organized and simple manner. The format is good also as I am much more likely to keep the guide close at hand wherever I'm painting. It reminds me of my little knitting guide book that I refer to when I'm stuck.
2
I just want to say thank you again for your Artist's Pocket Guide. It is terrific! I read it cover to cover last night -- you have packed a great deal of wonderful info into those 19 pages!!
All the best for happy painting days ahead,
3
Artist's pocket guide to better painting. Is a wonderful and easy book to go to for a reminder of the questions you should ask yourself when you paint in the studio or plein air painting, As well it is easy to carry with you anywhere you may paint. Great gift for any painter.
4
It is a very nice memory tool to help remind artists of all the things that a good painting should have. As a sellable book in our store.
Your partner in art making.
5
I recently bought the new booklet made by Jean Pederson and I really appreciate it. The size, design and content make it a very handy tool that is always beside my painting project, at home or everywhere else I paint. It is so practical and useful that it is like having a personal teacher with me but more than that, it helps me to do my own analyze and guide me through the process of knowing what I want to create, why and how.
This is an essential element in my process of creating a better painting from within. I love it.
Regards,
Nicole
6
After completing 15 – 20 painting workshops over the past 5 years, I’m left with a plethora of inspirations comingled with better painting rules and regulations derived from as many instructors as workshops.
Jean Pederson’s Artist’s Pocket Guide to better Painting has organized all of this painting jargon and jumble into a simple to use handbook. I especially appreciate the heavy easy to clean laminated cardstock in the color coded, binder format. This painting guide will not only be extremely helpful in my own painting journey, but will also help me get organized to teach a youth course in the coming year. I highly recommend Jean’s Artist’s Pocket Guide to Better Painting to all students and instructors of painting, and to professional painters in any media.