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James Gurney's book - "Light and Colour" is an absolute must. The number of professional artists, illustrators who have it on their shelves and recommend it is countless. Even amateur painters and hobbyist, who have this book have listed it as one of the greatest art books to own. It explains things in an easy to understand way, even complex theories are broken down in to examples and show how to achieve the desired results. More than worth the money, even when buying a new copy, as people tend not to part with it once they have it and often refer back to it.

working my way through this one right now!

Thank you for recommending this book. I am buying it for sure.

I got that book referral from Andy Evanston and it truly helped my knowledge of shapes and values. It’s a great book. The paper back I got on Amazon isn’t the best print job but reading his instructions are really helpful. Thanks for explaining much of the book. Love your videos and hope to take one of your courses soon.

I began to read this book and to try to apply the concepts of each chapter before going to the next. Incredibly useful. Thanks.

Thank you for sharing this book

I love this book and agree that it helps you to “see” differently. I like how he connects shapes. Skip Lawrence is a master.

Great advice. Thank you very much for this succinct presentation of the key points. You are generous with your advice and encouragement. And always a friendly, kind manner. Excellent video.

I have this book, it helped me to loosen up and look at the bigger picture, highly recommend❤

great book, great artist!

I'm a big fan of your channel. You did a great job, introduced really useful techniques that can lead people to provide quality paintings.

I have James Gurney's Colour and Light but it's not specifically watercolour so will definitely order this one. Thank you!

One of your best videos, Matthew. You're providing a great service to the practice.

It took me years to learn this concept but the artist you showcased really doubles down on the ideas and his work is beautiful. I also use shapes when I draw and only try to detail the focal point. This is a tough concept to grasp. For a long time I focused on forms but shapes make artm making for efficient and simply beautiful.

"Designer of a good shape" - that really stood out to me. I'm going to try to apply that when I paint this evening, see if it makes a difference for me. Thanks!

Excellent book! I've read a number of Watercolor books, but my favorite art books are James Gurney's "Color and Light" and Ian Robert's "Mastering Composition."

Thanks for this priceless info. After many searches, I've been able to find the book in a second hand bookstore. The book is in mint condition and going throught it is a revelation. It will definitely change my way of seeing subjects.

Awesome! Thank you!

I am picking up a brush again, after making my living designing and display. This is my new desire to loosen up and paint light and shape thank you .

There are phone apps that are Photo to Sketch, which turns photos into black and white 'pencil' sketches of various light values and I've found that printing one of these out and using them to know my shapes, values and outlines as a start really helpful. This book looks really great and in the same vein.

Thank you!

Wonderful ..please continue your videos and don't ever stop

Your 7 secrets are great and helpful. thank you.

Wonderful, that is the essence!, not the big amount of videos about brushes, paints, and other such things, the great thing is to paint ALL the other things just sticking to the focal point, that is submitting all the details, everything is at the right place, at the right distance. Very happy someone told it!! Virgil Mihai

Beautiful✨ painting

The Doors, options number one is amazing.

I thought I had commented on your excellent video when I first saw this, but maybe I forgot to hit the "comment" button. I thought, "Wow, this looks great!" Fortunately, I already have this in my abundant collection. 😀I have the original hard cover and I have seen comments that the 2021 reprint is of poor quality. Recently, I purchased Hazel Soan's "Art of the Limited Palette" of which she gives a long review on YT. It discusses the properties of many commonly used colors and how they work well together for harmony. Amazon will let you download a free Kindle sample. There is only color info in it - no beginner's info like materials, etc. Thanks ever so much for sharing your talent, knowledge and teaching abilities with the world!

Wow I have that book, I have to find, it's in the loft somewhere

I subscribed this channel when I knew this was useful video for me 😊

Very cool

I have found it interesting when you have bad time seeing dark shapes inside the darkest shape you can invert photo and suddenly see it easier

Skip ...is the student of the Great Edgar A Whitney

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I signed up for your watercolor course months ago and still haven’t started. I have all of my materials ready… I’m just stuck. 😢 Thanks for the book recommendation… If I can’t get myself to paint I can at least get myself to read. ❤

Good

Would this book work for Oils?

Looks like Andys work without the dark paint

Andy evanson is the master of this. He always recommends this book.

Don't see much of his art work online, is he still active painter?

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Dear Mathew, I started out painting realistic, especially botanical. Then, I found my thought process stuck in it, not able to loosen up the way you talk about large shapes and spontaneous fresh painting. When I began practising loose and shape, I found myself not able to focus on tight realistic painting like I used to do. It's taking a long time to come up with good painting like I used to do before. Caught between two techniques. What to do? Please suggest

And how did you learn from It? Did you copy the paintings or just reading and trying to apply what It says?

I got one from Amazon recently. I’ve been painting for 5 yrs and it’s too advanced and complicated for me .

Ma purtroppo non si trova in Italiano!

4:22 faceless ppl... Looks scary😮😢

I have this book and I sort of disagree about some of this book. Obviously he's a fine artist who has taught some great artists... but I just don't think this book teaches people to apply paint beautifully. That's not to say that the whole book is bad; there's some great ideas in there.

Charles reid better

you look purple man, adjust your white balance or the source of lighting, it is mixed: natural and ambience lightning

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