Discover the secrets of watercolor mastery! Late 20th and 21st century watercolor artists have transformed the art of watermedia into a golden phenomenon and one of the most significant movements in the history of art. The lives and works of the 34 artists represented here display a multitude of different approaches, philosophies and techniques. Each has a unique perspective and an innovative approach; artists such as Ann Smith, Cheng-Kee Chee, John Salminen and many more share their secrets. You'll also get a behind-the-scenes look at legends like Robert E. Wood, Naomi Brotherton, Edgar A. Whitney and Ed Betts, whose teaching and work contributes invaluably to the aesthetics of the medium and their students. • More than 125 pieces of exquisite art • 18 innovative demonstrations • 34 artist interviews and commentaries Discover proud watercolor painting traditions, new perspectives on the medium, and works of art to influence new generations of artists. Get ready to be inspired with this one of a kind collection.

Watercolor Masters and Legends: Secrets, Stories and Techniques from 34 Visionary Artists

Arts & Photography

Stroud, Betsy Dillard

Study & Teaching

North Light Books

Artists can sometimes feel as though they're in a creative rut. With Painting From the Inside Out, readers will use fun and inspiring exercises to break out of that rut and create exciting, innovative new paintings every time they pick up a brush! 
Each chapter highlights demonstrations and inspirations that will enable readers to push past boundaries and explore new ideas, including exercises for loosening up, improvisational painting, combining mediums and more. These lessons will help readers think about art in new and imaginative ways, then render such imaginings with a variety of useful techniques.

Painting from the Inside Out: 19 Projects and Exercises to Free Your Creative Spirit

Painting

"To be creative, you simply open a door, the door of the subconscious mind, and allow thoughts and images to emerge unedited."Betsy Dillard Stroud
Creative opportunity is always knocking, but can you hear it over the drone of everyday life? Unlock the door and open it wide to allow your muse to appear. Travel artistic pathways you've left uncharted, unrevealed, untried.
Inspired by her popular articles in Watercolor Magic, Betsy Dillard Stroud delivers creative challenges, inspirational chapters and profiles that reveal the personal and expressive thought process behind her own work and the work of many other successful artists. Inside, explore ways to loosen up, break through creative blocks and stray joyously from the beaten path.
What glorious discoveries hide behind your creative door? Turn the key for a bona fide aesthetic joy ride.

The Artists Muse: Unlock the Door to Your Creativity

There will be a traveling exhibits of Joseph Raffael's work: 
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<li>Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC - September 10 through October 31, 2015 </li>
<li>Canton Museum, Canton Ohio - December 2015 through early March 2016 </li>
<li>Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, Ohio - March through June 2016 </li>
<li>Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan - June through August, 2016</li>
</ul>
Extraordinary in scale, infinitesimal in detail, and sumptuous in color, the paintings of master watercolorist Joseph Raffael plumb the depths of nature's beauty. Eighty-eight works of deep reflection, awe, and joy selected for this volume were created in his home and garden in Cap D'Antibes, France, overlooking the sparkling Mediterranean Sea. Raffael's radiant vision of the natural world, including flowers, fish and water, has garnered critical praise throughout his long career. "Despite their iconic serenity when seen from a distance," wrote art critic Robert Hughes, "Raffael's paintings disclose a bejeweled profusion of incident close up," concluding that the artist's color-drenched canvases display "a tender virtuosity without parallel in other American figurative painting today." It might be said that water, a symbol of life and constant change, is both Raffael's muse and teacher. The artist becomes its conduit as his colour-saturated brush glides along the surface of the white paper. "Watercolors have a mind of their own. I just need to show up and be present," he tells Betsy Dillard Stroud in her interview with the 81-year old artist. Lanie Goodman, a fellow resident in the South of France, visits Raffael at work in his light- filled studio, which she describes, in her biographical profile of the artist, as his haven and heaven. With tables of brushes and glass dishes of paint, the carefully cultivated garden by his wife Lannis, and the blue sea beyond, Raffael joins the long legacy of artists - Cezanne, Matisse, Leger among them - nourished by this life and vista. Raffael's home, where artist and nature are in constant dialogue, accounts for the artist's luminous painting, their symphonic color, and the splendour we behold in them. In his essay "A Walk in Beauty," David Pagel identifies Raphael's worlds within worlds as profound instances of big-picture thinking - the best possible experience of both Nature and Art.

Moving Toward the Light: Joseph Raffael

PAGEL, David

Goodman, Lanie

Individual Artists

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Watercolor Masters and Legends: Secrets, Stories and Techniques from 34 Visionary Artists

Painting from the Inside Out: 19 Projects and Exercises to Free Your Creative Spirit

The Artists Muse: Unlock the Door to Your Creativity

Moving Toward the Light: Joseph Raffael