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Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor
By Claudia Nice
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Claudia Nice shows you how to turn ink and watercolors into the coarse-barked trunk of an oak, or the burnished smoothness of brass, or the verdant velvet of moss. Or any of many other things. She shows you how to use dots, fine lines, brushstrokes, black and white, colora mixture of mediums and techniquesto suggest:
• glass
• cast iron
• adobe and brick
• sunrise and sunset
• driftwood
• leaf textures
• basketry
• surf and ocean waves
• enamelware
• rainbows
• wood grain
• distant trees
• eggs and onions
• animal hair
• and dozens of other textures!
You'll learn how to use materials, from technical pens to paint brushes, colored inks to liquid acrylics. You'll discover ways to blot, spatter, stamp and otherwise alter and combine ink and watercolor for exciting texturing effects.
• glass
• cast iron
• adobe and brick
• sunrise and sunset
• driftwood
• leaf textures
• basketry
• surf and ocean waves
• enamelware
• rainbows
• wood grain
• distant trees
• eggs and onions
• animal hair
• and dozens of other textures!
You'll learn how to use materials, from technical pens to paint brushes, colored inks to liquid acrylics. You'll discover ways to blot, spatter, stamp and otherwise alter and combine ink and watercolor for exciting texturing effects.
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Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor - Claudia Nice
AUTUMN TEXTURE, 10″ × 7″, Watercolor, pen & ink, pen & ArtistColor.
CREATING
TEXTURES
IN
PEN&INK
WITH
WATERCOLOR
CLAUDIA
NICE
An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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Copyright © 1995 by Claudia Nice
Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader.
Ebook ISBN: 9781440319952
Edited by Rachel Wolf and Kathy Kipp
Cover illustration by Claudia Nice
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I dedicate this book with love to my parents. To my father who passed to me his creativity, and taught me to love nature from the business end of a fishing pole.
To my mother who read to me and instilled in my mind the love of good books, and a colorful imagination with which to create my own.
Above all, I dedicate this book to my creator who answered many prayers and made all things possible.
Thank you, Jim, for your patience, encouragement and support.
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