Create Perfect Paintings An Artist’s Guide to Visual Thinking
Create Perfect Paintings: An Artist’s Guide to Visual Thinking by Nancy Reyner, published by Penguin on April 17, 2017, is an illustrated resource designed for artists seeking to enhance their skills and creativity. This 144-page guide presents an innovative self-critique method aimed at addressing common artistic dilemmas such as “Now What?” and “Is it Finished?” Through a combination of insights, tips, and illustrated techniques, the book encourages artists to strengthen their perception and technical abilities, regardless of their chosen medium or style.
Readers will find a structured approach to improving their artistic practice, featuring exercises and examples that facilitate self-evaluation of their work. The book covers essential artistic concepts, encourages creative exploration, and introduces a contemporary critique method known as The Viewing Game. Additionally, it addresses topics such as overcoming creative blocks, enhancing personal style, and effectively displaying artwork. This comprehensive guide serves as a valuable reference for artists looking to deepen their understanding of painting techniques and visual thinking.
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The Ultimate Resource and Reference Guide for Artists!
Discover an innovative self-critique method that will empower you to answer the artist’s most common questions: Now What? and Is it Finished? With hundreds of insights, tips, and illustrated techniques, Create Perfect Paintings shows you how to push your work to the next level regardless of medium or style by strengthening your perception, technical skills, and visual thinking.
Exercises and examples illustrate how to critique your own creations and evaluate them step by step for further improvement. You will learn to identify and modify artistic choices–from negative space and color ratio to controlling eye movement, depth and contrast–to see their impact and help you use them to the best effect in your work. What you’ll find inside:
• Section 1: Essentials–Reviews and defines artistic terms and concepts.
• Section 2: Play Phase–Shows you how to tap into your creative right brain. Learn to challenge the process and break habits to free your spirit and inspire variety in your art; also covers materials, tools and surfaces.
• Section 3: Critique Phase–Introduces a groundbreaking method of contemporary critique called The Viewing Game: a comprehensive, systematic and fun way to analyze, edit and enhance your paintings.
• Sections 4 and 5–Bonus sections explore how to resolve creative blocks, convey artistic messages, boost your personal style, display your work, and turn painting into a career.
“May this book increase your productivity, add ease and flow to your creative process, clarify your ideas, add nuance to your personal style, and most importantly, add joy to the miraculous act of painting.” –Nancy Reyner
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