Interpreting the Figure in Watercolor

Interpreting the Figure in Watercolor by Don Andrews. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780965555906.

This book takes on a challenging subject: showing how the figure can be painted creatively and beautifully in watercolor through simplification, interpretation, and shapemaking. In explaining how to capture the essence of the human figure, Andrews provides basic information about materials and discusses such techniques as gesture drawing and gesture painting; defining the figure with light and shadow and linking darks and lights for unity, introducting backgrounds, and much more. Illustrated with 200 color and 20 b/w illustrations.