Urban Watercolor Sketching: A Guide to Drawing, Painting, and Storytelling in Color

I'm only about halfway through the book so far, but what I've read is very informative. I'm not an artist, but a scientist with an interest in illustration; this book is full of details about h0w and why watercolors are the way they are and why they're made that way - details that help me understand how and why watercolors behave the way they do (and, therefore, how to control them better!). I have already gotten my money's worth from this book, and I'm only halfway through it - I'm impressed!

I just started reading this book and already I learned several things. The writing style is perfect and I love the illustrations. I purchased 4 watercolor book’s recently and this is by far my favorite!

Very interesting. Very different approach of watercolor. Enjoyed and learned a lot out of it. Wish I could find more books like this.

not really about urban sketching. Very unique art style, written in an interesting readable way. Good explanations of such things as color theory. Hard to pigeon-hole this book, but worth a space on your art book shelf. Just not the first one.

This book is marvelous. I was looking for something on how to approach drawing cityscapes (Marc Taro Holmes' Urban Sketcher is a bit more pragmatic on that), but I find myself reading and rereading this one.Scheinberger has an amazing style, and I've gotten a lot out of studying his sketches over and over again. He works in a very loose, gestural style most of the time, so rather than getting precise "architectural" looking drawings, he produces something much more personal. The way he then adds color is intriguing and also very free.It's not truly a how-to, and a lot of the watercolor technical advice he does give can be found in other places, but the in-depth look at his work and also at the way he thinks about art are tremendous. This is one of the very small handful of books on sketching that I will hang on to. (Mark Taro Holmes' book is another, as are the Bert Dodson books _Keys to Drawing_ and _Keys to Drawing with Imagination_.)By the way, this book works fine in the Kindle format. I read it on my Voyage, then often look at the images on my phone to get the effect of the color.

I love, love, love this book. It inspires the freedom to draw any thing in any way your heart can imagine. If think you would enjoy drawing, if you think you would like playing with water colors, if you wish you could sketch your day, trip or what ever then this is for you. It will instantly reduce your fear of trying. Did I mention I love it!

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTROWatercolors—In or Out?A Painting for the EmperorGum Arabic: Where the Watercolors GrowPigments: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made OfYellow and Orange: Of Camels and CrocusesRed and Purple: Of Bugs and SnailsBlue: Of Lapis Lazuli, Indigo, and WoadGreen: Of Plants and PoisonIntroducing Color to Sketches:We’re Not in Kansas AnymoreFIRST ATTEMPTSMultiple Choice: To Design Is to DecideFrom Dusk till Dawn: Shadows and LightBlack Is Back: Glazing with India InkLayer for Layer: The GlazeMixing Colors with GlazesFish Soup: Practicing the GlazeThe Wash: The Paint Does as It Pleases!On the Run: Graded Wash TechniquesOnce More, with Feeling!: WashesIt’s a Give and Take: Applying and Removing PaintWet-on-WetCombining Techniques: A Little Bit of This and ThatEXCURSION IN COLOR THEORYWhere Do Colors Come From?:The Simple ScienceArranging ColorsOpposites Attract: Color ContrastsFrom South Park to Stoplights: Types of ColorTrue Color: The Effect of LightEvery Color Tells a Story: Intensifying Your SketchesIt’s All Relative: The Effects of ColorsColor Harmonies: Simple and ComplexAnalogous, Monochromatic, and Complementary HarmoniesTriadic and Tetradic HarmoniesCool-Cool and Warm-Warm HarmoniesCollecting ColorsDesigning Color Harmonies: Working with Color Code StripsGetting Out of Your Color Comfort ZoneThe Blue Ridge Mountains: Color and PerspectiveYOUR OWN STYLELess Is MoreMe, Myself, and I: Finding Your Own StyleStyle and CreativityThrowing Down: Loosening Up Your PaintingSeek Not and You Shall Find: Imagination vs. InternetMake It MatterPrioritiesBASICS / TOOLSPaintboxesWatercolor PencilsBuying PaintsMixing PaintsImpossible Hues: Bright ColorsPimping Watercolors: Making Colors PopLiquid Watercolors: Bright Now, Pale LaterInto the Wild: BrushesEven More BrushesPaperThe Permanent Wave: Stretching PaperThe Contents of My BagOUT & ABOUTBad Weather: Painting OutdoorsThe Other Viewpoint: Changing PerspectivePainting WaterAir, Fog, SmokeSmog and AtmosphereWhat Is Beauty Anyway?TIPS & TRICKSComposition and DesignSmudges and SpotsPainting What’s Not There: Negative SpaceWhite: A Special CaseStudies, Sketches, and DraftsUndoMerging Colors: Working from One ColorWorking with Colored PaperSpecial EffectsLettering and WritingLayouts, Scribbles, and StoryboardsWatercolor IllustrationsHow Much Is Your Picture Worth?Everything Ends: When Is a Picture Finished?

not an art instruction book per se. more an overview of watercolors, materials, techniques, and everything anyone needs to know to sketch and paint the way they want to sketch and paint. basically art is not a contest and there is no right or wrong way to DO it. if you would like to DO it, this will point you in the right direction. no step by step demonstrations. painting and drawing are like riding a bicycle or swimming - you can read about it and talk about it all you want, but you'll never learn how until you DO it. this is a fun, informative, entertaining and beautiful book. i highly recommend it to anyone who sketches, draws, paints, or in any way enjoys making marks on paper, canvas, board or any other support.

Really fun book to read and explains everything you need to know if you are either a beginner or pro. Love it.

I‘d highly reccomend this book an interesting read and wonderfully illustrated.

Excelente calidad de papel y de impresión. La información por capítulo es breve pero útil.

Great book in urban sketching with very interesting examples and sketches great one to add to your urban sketching collection

Pensavo che è tutto di filosofia di designare, ma in realtà scrive in maniera causal, ma con le cose utile, invece di dire cosa deve disegnare e come disegnare una cosa, si da più l’ispirazione a come vedere il mondo usando la media di acquerello. Adatto a chi adora disegnare in un casual way, non c’entra l’accuratezza dei disegni. Have fun!