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1. Buy Watercolor Painting Books Online | Painting Lessons Online shopping from our great selection of painting lessons. Buy watercolor painting books online from Natural Pigments. We offer the watercolor portrait dvd, making your own water-solved paint, painting materials: a short encyclopedia & many other watercolor painting books.

2. The Watercolor Portrait DVD The complex characteristics of watercolor and ink enable a wide variety of approaches, from quick thumbnail sketches to highly rendered modeling. Artists such as Rembrandt and Goya transformed the ink sketch into a powerful art form by exploiting its ability to simultaneously capture the finest line along with broad melting masses of tone. 

3. Making Your Own Water-Solved Paint • Making Your Own Water-Solved Paint is a downloadable PDF how-to book on preparing and grinding pigments to make your own waterborne paint. • Contents • Introduction • Consistency of Colors • Tools Needed to Make Paint • Preparing the Grinding Surface • Grinding and Dispersing Pigment • Paint Formulas

4. Artists Pigments: 1600-1800 Between the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth centuries the artist's world underwent great and significant change. By the end of this period the transition from medieval to modern colors was well under way. R. D. Harley's book applies itself to a detailed and comprehensive examination of the primary documentary sources of this crucial period.

5. Painting Materials: A Short Encyclopedia The combined training and experience of the authors of this classic in the varied activities of painting conservation, cultural research, chemistry, physics, and paint technology ideally suited them to the task they attempted. Their book, written when they were both affiliated with the Department of Conservation at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, is not a handbook of instruction.

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