Characteristics of the four water media: watercolor, gouache, acrylic, casein -- Generating excitement in your compositions -- Understanding positive and negative space -- Choosing and sketching your subject -- Overlapping forms -- Adding rhythm -- Laying the value foundatino -- Using a geometric motif -- Establishing an interlocking spatial pattern -- Developing a composition -- Creating texture -- Exploring color -- Solving compositional problems -- Composition checklist -- Developing your visualizing skills -- Exercise one: focus on simple shapes -- Exercise two: practice with other simple -- Exercise three:explore varied forms and techniques -- Exercise four: woirk wet-on-wet -- Exercise five: paint negative and positive shapes -- Exercise six: combine watercolor and gouache -- Exercise seven: experiment with texture -- Exercise eight: explore flowing forms -- Exercise nine: contrast acrylic and casein -- Capturing the feeling of your subject -- Playing with color and contrasting media -- Creating a warm, peaceful scene -- Putting it all together -- Developing positive and negative space -- Making use of preliminary studies -- Choosing an unusual format -- Developing overlapping forms -- Enhancing the rhythm -- Working with a geometric motif -- Unifying the picture space -- using strong value contrasts -- Controlling intense color -- Using color for mood -- Emphasizing texture -- Visualizing as you paint -- learning from contemporary artists -- Working with brilliant color -- Finding the essence of a subject -- Capturing a moment in time -- Letting the painting grow spontaneously -- Selecting an unusual viewpoint -- Combining abstraction and realism -- Developing a lyrical abstraction -- Suggesting an abstract landscape -- Discovering the patterns of shadows -- Seeing the negative space -- Expressing the spirit of nature -- Arranging shapes boldly -- Designing rock and waer patterns -- Creating sea forms intuitively -- Building a strong composition -- Using airbrush techniques -- Conveying the magic of a scene -- Experimenting with anunusual technique -- Heightening the dramatic impact -- Painting with revernce for the subject.
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