Description
J.M.W. Turner is one of the most influential and important British artists of all time. His watercolours, with their extraordinary effects of shifting light and dramatic cloudscapes, are especially highly regarded. This book reveals the secrets of his technique for the first time, allowing watercolourists to try them out for themselves.
For the first time, this book reveals the secrets of Turner's technique, allowing present-day watercolourists to try them out themselves. There is an accessible introduction that explores Turner's life and career and the materials he used to achieve the masterpieces we know and love today. The book then goes on to list the modern materials the twenty-first century watercolourist will need if they aspire to take on similar subject matter. Successive chapters look at a particular theme, such as Sky, Water, Trees, Buildings, People, Animals, Sunrise, Moonlight and Fire, illustrating each with one of Turner's works. Expert contemporary watercolour artists then explain, step-by-step, how to paint a version of that particular picture and how to use the techniques learnt to paint other compositions.
With a glossary of technical terms, high quality colour reproductions and backed by the authority of Tate, the world centre for Turner scholarship, this is a must-buy purchase for all lovers of J.M.W. Turner and of watercolour painting.
About the Author
Nicola Moorby works at Tate on the Turner Bequest. Ian Warrell is Curator (18th and 19th Century British Art) at Tate and is one of the world's leading authorities on Turner. He has contributed to many books, including JMW Turner, Turner Whistler Monet and Turner and Venice. Joyce Townsend is Senior Conservation Scientist at Tate and the author of Turner's Painting Techniques. The artist Mike Chaplin was art expert on TV's Watercolour Challenge and his paintings have been reproduced in the book Mike Chaplin's Expressive Watercolours. Tony Smibert is a painter based in Tasmania who has held over forty exhibitions worldwide. His paintings are in many public and private collections.
Book Information
ISBN 9781854378835
Author Nicola Moorby
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Tate Publishing
Publisher Tate Publishing
Weight(grams) 688g
Dimensions(mm) 271mm * 212mm * 12mm
For the first time, this book reveals the secrets of Turner's technique, allowing present-day watercolourists to try them out themselves. There is an accessible introduction that explores Turner's life and career and the materials he used to achieve the masterpieces we know and love today. The book then goes on to list the modern materials the twenty-first century watercolourist will need if they aspire to take on similar subject matter. Successive chapters look at a particular theme, such as Sky, Water, Trees, Buildings, People, Animals, Sunrise, Moonlight and Fire, illustrating each with one of Turner's works. Expert contemporary watercolour artists then explain, step-by-step, how to paint a version of that particular picture and how to use the techniques learnt to paint other compositions.
With a glossary of technical terms, high quality colour reproductions and backed by the authority of Tate, the world centre for Turner scholarship, this is a must-buy purchase for all lovers of J.M.W. Turner and of watercolour painting.
About the Author
Nicola Moorby works at Tate on the Turner Bequest. Ian Warrell is Curator (18th and 19th Century British Art) at Tate and is one of the world's leading authorities on Turner. He has contributed to many books, including JMW Turner, Turner Whistler Monet and Turner and Venice. Joyce Townsend is Senior Conservation Scientist at Tate and the author of Turner's Painting Techniques. The artist Mike Chaplin was art expert on TV's Watercolour Challenge and his paintings have been reproduced in the book Mike Chaplin's Expressive Watercolours. Tony Smibert is a painter based in Tasmania who has held over forty exhibitions worldwide. His paintings are in many public and private collections.
Book Information
ISBN 9781854378835
Author Nicola Moorby
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Tate Publishing
Publisher Tate Publishing
Weight(grams) 688g
Dimensions(mm) 271mm * 212mm * 12mm
