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P L A N N I N G A B E T T E R PA I N T I N G

Contents
Watercolor From the Bones Up
by Sylvia D. Miller 6

Judgments Based on Design and Intuition

by James A. Metcalfe 14

Creating Dynamic Compositions With

Interlocking Shapes
by Christopher Willard 22

WORKI NG FROM LI FE
Painting Loose and Free
by Linda S. Price 30

Enjoying the Process

by John A. Parks 38

WOR KI NG FROM PHOTOG RAPH S

Expressive Figures
by Ann Kalayil Abrams 50

50 Extracting Accurate Details From Photographs

by M. Stephen Doherty 60

U S I N G T R A N S PA R E N T PA I N T S

Water Wet-in-Wet
by Michael P. Kinch 72

Pouring Color, Pouring Light

by Pablo Wolfe 80

Lively Brushwork, Purposeful Color

by Meredith E. Lewis 90

Controlling Wet-in-Wet Washes

by Lynne Moss Perricelli 98

72 98 E X P L O R I N G N E W S U R FA C E S
Four Approaches to Watercolor
6 110 by David Daniels 110

A New Dimension for Tom Lynch’s Watercolors

by M. Stephen Doherty 118

E X PA N D I N G T H E R A N G E O F
WAT E R - S O L U B L E M AT E R I A L S

Water-Based (Not Watercolor)

by John A. Parks 126
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Waiting (detail)
by Ted Nuttall. 2006,
watercolor, 11 x 15.
Private collection.

A RT I S T S I N T H I S
ISSU E:

Alleman, Joseph 14
60 30
Bergt, Michael 128
Braukman, Mary Alice 136
Daniels, David 110

Erfle, Linda 98

Evansen, Andy 30
Francesconi, Tom 90

Gnott, Jacqueline 60

Grastorf, Jean 80
Hazell, Ron 72

Kinney, Raleigh 22
126 118
Lynch, Tom 118

Miller, Sylvia D. 6
Nuttall, Ted 50

Walsh, Janet 38
Watts, Jeffrey 140

Wilson, Patton 132

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