The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook - Keep Painting!

Recharge your creative spirit and rediscover the magic that is watercolor!

Every watercolorist needs a creative kick in the pants now and then--to keep seeking inspiration when feeling uninspired, to keep going when a painting has stalled, to keep trying when a technique isn't easy to master...sometimes just to keep painting, period.

When your artistic well has run dry, you must replenish it. Whether you have spent decades painting in watercolor or are just beginning, the tips and secrets shared by best-selling author and artist Gordon MacKenzie provide the perfect guide when the going gets tough. Get excited about watercolor again as he shows you how to:

• Find better approaches to a tired composition
• Engage viewers more fully with color, value and well-placed "wee people"
• Reinvent a scene that outshines your reference photographs
• Dramatize a landscape by focusing on the weather
• Nurture your own growth by sharing what you know with others
"You don't have to paint the way you paint now. You don't have to paint what you paint now." --Gordon MacKenzie

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Gordon MacKenzie, gordonmackenziewatercolours.com, is a popular artist and teacher with more than 30 years experience. He conducts workshops in the U.S. and Canada and has produced two books with North Light. He lives in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

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Recharge your creative spirit and rediscover the magic that is watercolor! Every watercolorist needs a creative kick in the pants now and then--to keep seeking inspiration when feeling uninspired, to keep going when a painting has stalled, to keep trying when a technique isnt easy to master...sometimes just to keep painting, period. When your artistic well has run dry, you must replenish it. Whether you have spent decades painting in watercolor or are just beginning, the tips and secrets shared by best-selling author and artist Gordon MacKenzie provide the perfect guide when the going gets tough. Get excited about watercolor again as he shows you how to:Find better approaches to a tired compositionEngage viewers more fully with color, value and well-placed wee peopleReinvent a scene that outshines your reference photographsDramatize a landscape by focusing on the weatherNurture your own growth by sharing what you know with othersYou dont have to paint the way you paint now. You dont have to paint what you paint now. --Gordon MacKenzie