Putting People in Your Paintings
by Laurel Hart
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Book Reviews of Putting People in Your Paintings
Book Review: Not for beginners
Summary: 3 Stars
This book is written by a professional portrait painter. She is fabulous in her approach to watercolor portraits but I believe not that helpful to the beginner like myself. The hardest thing to do is to put figures into a landscape or seascape and this book has the information but assumes you are comfortable painting faces and figures in the first place.
Should you already feel comfortable drawing and painting faces and figures, by all means buy this book.
The beginner should look elsewhere to realizing the concept and instruction of figure placement.
There are many videos on the market like Don Andrews - "Painting Figurs in the Landscape" - and Tony Van Hasselt - "Fun with Figures" -that do the job for tyros like us.
Book Review: Water color techniques
Summary: 5 Stars
This book gave me answers to questions like:
1.how to design strong watercolor paintings
2.how to really identify values correctly
3.how to create paintings that work and are interesting
I like the approach to color by painting with primary triads and her watercolor laundry method. As a self taught artist, I learned mostly by trial and error. If I had this book sooner I would have made far fewer errors.
Book Review: Glad I got this book
Summary: 4 Stars
I am enjoying this book. It has good, well written descriptions of everything from sketching, basic figure proportions, value studies, color mixing, on location painting, people in landscapes, basic design, light and shadow and more.
I am very glad I bought this book. I like that she shows capturing the essence of people and not photo realism. Fun book to read and study. Lots of visual and not overrun with text.
Book Review: Inspiring and practical
Summary: 5 Stars
After years of avoiding attempting to paint figures, I am now able to put people into my paintings successfully. Laurels book is beautifully written and well laid out, which makes it easy to use. She manages to communicate the techniques and instill confidence, so a big thank you!Book Review: Great Book
Summary: 5 Stars
Thought this was a wonderful book. Just what I was looking for ie. impressionistic images of figures in watercolour. The demos are clear and easy to follow. Her paintings are full of light and she sets everything out very clearly. More helpful than a DVD. Highly recommended.