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As a teacher of colored pencil workshops, Gary Greene sees his students buying watercolor pencils "by the truckload." Problem is, they haven't known what to do with them--until now. In this much-requested book, Greene shows artists how to achieve a variety of different effects in this fascinating medium.
From loose, watercolor-like washes to precise airbrush looks, the author, along with six guest artists, shows readers how to master the medium in 18 complete painting demonstrations.
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Very Helpful.......2007-04-28
This is an excellent book for anyone wanting to learn the nuances of using watercolor pencils. The author's illustrations show the remarkable results that can be attained with this medium.
I especially want to comment on the series of cherries, which other reviewers have referred to. The cherries are the most useful and important part of the book, in my opinion, and the feature that distinguishes this book from others in this field. By repeating the same subject (the cherries) over and over, but as painted by different techniques, the author demonstrates the variety of achievable effects. I was surprised just how different each set of cherries looked when painted in the various techniques. Those demonstrations, along with other instruction in the book, make for valuable instruction. This is a great book for anyone who wants to become skilled in this medium.
Excellent techniques.......2007-04-08
I don't understand the complaint with the cherries by some of the other reviewers. Gary is just introducing the reader step-by-step to the techniques using cherrys as the example AT FIRST. There are 13 cherry techniques covered over 20 pages, but there are 128 pages in the book. Hmmmm, could there be more? WHY YES! As a matter of fact there is.
He then proceeds to use these techniques on other images that DO NOT repeat themselves. He covers stuff like portraits, animals, landscapes, textures, flowers and a bit of the abstract. There is a large variety. AND WAIT, theres more! He also demonstrates the varying techniques step-by-step with these other various non-repeating works of art! So, don't be fooled by the complaints about cherrys. It's just covered in Chapter 2 and then he goes into more depth in all the other chapters. (Chapter 1 is the usual materials tools and color charts.)
Okay, so it is not for beginners. You should know how to draw well, and be confident in your drawing. You know... be able to create the illusion of 3D on 2D. Or else you'll be one of those reviewers who says "I'm disapointed in this book, I expected more."
Painting with water-soluble colored pencils.......2007-01-04
This book was a gift so I have no knowledge of the contents other than that the gift recipient was pleased with the content and found it helpful in learning to paint with watercolors.
Overall a great introduction to the medium.......2006-03-25
As an experienced artist but a beginner in this particular medium, I found this book to be very informative. I noticed that some of the reviewers complained about the cherry paintings, but I found them to be quite helpful. I enjoyed seeing how one subject looked painted several different ways. Though some of the sample step-by-step paintings are pretty substandard, a few are quite good (such as the one of the three parrots). Though probably not the most inspiring art book in the world, this is the best book I have found as an introduction to water soluble colored pencils.
Lack luster book.......2000-04-11
I find it hard to explain why I was so disappointed in this book. Perhaps it is the redundancy of subjects(cherries), yet the cherry part was interesting in the fact that it compared a same subject with different techniques. Still it lacks something.
The other examples of pictures that were in the book were overwhelming for me. It is as if I were already expected to know how to draw the pictures. I did not find there to be enough step by step instruction.
I also have another book by Gary Greene- Textures. That book is far more inspiring and instructional than this one is.
This book just does not whet my appetite for watercolor pencils enough to make me want to race to my pencils and start drawing right away. Instead, it just makes me sigh, and put the tin away for yet another day.
This topic could be covered in a far more inspirational and effective way than was done in this book. And the examples should be more exciting and motivating than they are.
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Great instruction and inspiring tips!.......2007-03-22
This is one of the "keepers". Kristy has done an excellent job here in not only instruction, but in very informative tips and techniques. Saves the new artist allot of time in getting right to the point and avoiding common mistakes. Kristy's book is highly recommended and I'd have given it more than 5 stars if I could have!
Drawing And Painting With Colored Pencil.......2006-11-06
Drawing And Painting With Colored Pencilery good reference book, I was very happy
A Waste of money and time.......2006-08-24
There are many other books available on this subject and they are all better than this one. There is nothing to be gained from reading this book. Forget it!
Stunning Examples.......2006-06-29
The illustrations for the techniques are Kutch's own colored pencil artwork. Her flowers are stunning and if I ever achieve a drawing on the level of her poppies or the morning glories, I'll be very happy.
Unfortunately, I struggled with some of the directions, bogging down over the art terms and special tools that I don't yet have. I think I'd benefit from rereading this book after I experiment more and stock in some of the supplies (special papers, ball burnisher, citrus thinner, etc.).
The techniques are shown in 5 or 6 steps with the illustration progressing as she describes the colors used. Most of the examples are flowers or fruit, but a few landscapes round it out.
The first 49 pages deal with regular colored pencils, then the rest of the book goes on to watercolor pencils and the techniques for those.
Be Advised it is much to do about Watersoluble Pencils...........2006-03-23
This is a wonderful book, don't get me wrong, however I expected it to relate more to colored pencils by themselves. The first section does, then it goes on to a much larger section on watersoluble pencils and the final section is devoted to using them in tandem. If you are interested in using them in tandem then by all means, this book should be on your shelf! The text is precise and easy to follow, the artwork is wonderful, to say the least.
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The Repair and Maintenance of Glass in Churches
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Crafty Screenwriting is the first book not only to offer a successful screenwriters tricks of the trade but to explain what development executives really mean when they complain that the dialogue is flat or the hero isnt likable. Smart, provocative, and funny, Hollywood insider Alex Epstein diagnoses problems that other screenwriting books barely address and answers questions that they rarely ask, like Why is it sometimes dangerous to know your characters too well before you start writing, or Why does your script have to be so much better than the awful pictures that get made every day? And as both a development executive who has accepted and rejected countless screenplays and a produced screenwriter, Epstein can take you into the heart of the most important question of all: Is this a movie? Crafty Screenwriting is a crucial book for anyone who has ever wondered what it takes to get their movie made.
Customer Reviews:
Read this book first.......2007-05-24
All of the real-world (how to get your script in front of the people who can buy it) advice is in this book. I've read 'em all and this is the best.
The helping hand to concentrate on script writing........2007-01-18
This is the started you need to boost your confidence. Lots of tips and websites too.
Good rewriting overview.......2006-06-08
Just another spec monkey here in L.A. working on a few scripts. But I think the previous review by mobuli gets this wrong.
Last month I tore apart a script and was trying to figure out how to put it back together properly. Like many a writer I found myself in need of specific techniques. Didn't need anymore discussion about mythic structure or formatting or act breaks or character, etc. All that stuff is valuable and good, but I was really in desperate need of good solid methods for laying out my action more clearly, threading action down a page. Using ..., -- and descriptions like
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pulling my hair out.
And did you know I could not find one screenwriting book currently in print that deals with just that sort of thing? It wasn't until I picked up Crafty Screenwriting and got to page 99 that I had found what I needed. Bought it before I got to page 100. For 31 pages, this book gave what I used as a rewrite tutorial to help me put my script together in the manner God intended. It was so useful that I demanded that every member of my screenwriting group march out immediately and buy it themselves.
When Substance Matters.......2006-05-31
For any writer out there it isn't a mystery how many screenwriting, writing and writing for the screen books exist in the world today (please note my redundancy had a point).
Reading one book is usually like reading them all. The same message, means and delivery - mechanical, trite and simplistically frustrating as we all know writing isn't easy - on the page is only 1/5 of the battle.
4/5 of the battle comes once the screenplay has been written and for those of us who don't have a dad, uncle, aunt, sister, cousin or best friend "since we were three" in Hollywood our perceptions on that ratio may be less than what we would like to admit.
It is refreshing then to find a book that not only covers that 4/5, but does it in a way that allows the reader not to be overwhelmed by clearly such overwhelming odds and circumstances. Crafty Screenwriting is actually an exterior title, because the book goes much deeper than that to explore the world of screenwriting, on the page, off, before, during and after the process. What exists, what doesn't, what to do, what not, how to do it, how not, etc ...
Anyone looking to read a book simply about how to write a screenplay, look elsewhere - you aren't ready for this level yet. If you're looking for knowledge on how to write a screenplay, how to get an agent, what to say in Hollywood, the moves you should be making and how to seal the deal - then you've found the 5/5 right here.
Anything but mechanical, nothing but informative and here's how you should feel after:
INT. HOUSE, COMPUTER ROOM - AFTERNOON
Bob, an unemployed writer, closes the book Crafty Screenwriting and places it to his left, while sitting in front of his computer.
The cursor from his screenwriting software blinks on the blank screen in front of him - BEAT, BEAT, BEAT.
Bob begins to type.
BOB (v.o.)
"Now I'm finally ready."
My bible.......2006-04-04
Of course we all have different ways to write. Some of the techniques from this book will not work the same way for everyone. But this book is a great source of dos, don'ts and gotchas of the process of getting a movie made.
This is money well spent.
And not that much anyway, which is even better!
Book Description
Providing a format that engages students to discuss real world issues, this book features 75 video clips from recent movies you can use to illustrate topics, including summaries of the movie and the clip, start-stop times, Scripture references for Bible study, and discussion-starting questions to provoke discussions on subjects that matter to today’s adolescents.
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Providing a format that engages students to discuss real world issues, this book features seventy-five video clips from recent movies you can use to illustrate topics, including summaries of the movie and the clip, start-stop times, and Scripture references.
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At first Mom and Pop Nash have ten eggs, then five--and soon they have none! Mom and Pop Nash want to surprise that tricky wolf who's stealing their eggs, but he surprises them first!
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The Little Engine That Could has a big problem-her engine won't start! There's only one thing to do: go to the mechanic and get a checkup. But what if the problem can't be fixed? Will the Little Blue Engine ever ride the rails again?
Based on the original story by Watty Piper.
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Get That Picture
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Katzenjammer is the story of a first-time novelist struggling in New York. The book's main character, Max Perkins, feels cursed by having the same name as that of the famous editor to Hemingway, Wolfe, and Fitzgerald. Max's attempts to get recognized finally land him in the readers' department of Bandomday Books where the plot to get his book published takes on mind-bending twists and turns, eventually becoming a Faustian comical journey. Encompassing everything from Russian pianists, male prostitution, and insane bosses, to the Mormon religion, the New York arts scene, hermaphrodites, dwarfs, and the inner workings of corporate America, Katzenjammer is a scathing, hilarious, and quixotic look at what it takes to get published today.
A scathing, quixotic, and Faustian look at the Publishing Industry, Jackson McCrae's new novel Katzenjammer takes us into the mind of Max Perkins-a first-time movie-obsessed novelist attempting to get his work published in New York. In this, his third book, McCrae strips away the media-created and hyped veneer of being a published author and shows us what it really takes to get your book on the bestseller list. The result is not always pretty but it is highly informative, hilarious, and above all, entertaining. Encompassing everything from Russian pianists, male prostitution, and insane bosses, to the Mormon religion, the New York arts scene, hermaphrodites, dwarfs, and the inner workings of corporate America, Katzenjammer is a ribald and adventurous romp through New York, publishing, and the world of books.
Excerpt from Katzenjammer: Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture by Jackson Tippett McCrae. Copyright © 2005. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
In order to test the editor, I typed out a complete chapter of Huckleberry Finn--a chapter from the middle of the book. Then I presented it, along with the statement, "I'm working on something new as you've convinced me that my current novel isn't any good."
"This is a perfect example of what I'm talking about," she started in after skimming Twain's work right in front of me. "You're telling the story instead of showing. As this stands now, you'd never get it published. Your use of English is deplorable, and the phrase is African-American--not nigger. And why would anyone want to read about the Mississippi River anyway?"
The next week I tried a chapter from Faulkner's Light in August.
"Boy, do you need to learn to write!" she said, settling onto the sofa. "You're lucky you came to me. I can really help you with this sort of thing. Do you even know what a sentence is supposed to sound like?"
Truman Capote's In Cold Blood was next.
"People don't generally like reading about this sort of thing," she said, her eyebrows up. "You'd be hard-pressed to find a publisher for it but if you agree to work with me for the next year-payment in advance-I should be able to help you whip it into shape. We have to start by taking out all the violence. That never sells." And then she added, "Just how many examples of your bad writing attempts do you have?"
Her response to three complete chapters from Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, again typed out so as not to look suspicious, garnered the comment, "Didn't you do anything interesting at all on your summer vacation?"
In an attempt to see just how far I could push the envelope, I began to send samples of famous books to various publishers, reasoning that they were as inept as my editor. I attached my name and a different title, just to see how they would react. I knew that the samples would either be ignored, read by some ignorant twenty-year-old whose idea of great literature was the Peanuts comic strip, or given the proverbial "shove-off" letter. Strangely enough, I actually got back responses instead of the usual form letters. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that I lied about having an agent and being wealthy enough to fund my own marketing campaign.
For the first three chapters of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, which I called Morning Aubade, I received the response, "Works like this are generally not publishable and there has never really been a market for this type of thing."
In response to the complete Nine Short Stories by Salinger (it took me two weeks to retype them all), I received, "We are not in the habit of printing the work of fifth-graders. May we suggest a writing course at your local junior college?"
And then there was the response to Steinbeck's last three chapters from The Grapes of Wrath which I had re-titled California Dreamin'.
"We suggest you try one of the lesser-known publishing houses for a work of this genre as the market for this type of thing is usually small. Also, you may want to change the ending as the breast-feeding of the hobo is a bit over the top."
One acquisitions editor at a major house even had the intelligence to recognize the name Max Perkins and accuse me of pretending to be someone I wasn't. "I happen to know the real Max Perkins," she wrote, "and as soon as I put this letter in the post, I'm calling him up and letting him know that you're using his name." I wanted to wish the acquisitions editor luck as the Max Perkins she was referring to had been dead at that point for forty-three years.
But the best response was given by one of the city's most elite houses, which, after I had sent in the book of Genesis from the Bible-double-spaced and in twelve-point type, just as they had requested-wrote back with the pithy quip, "Dear Mr. Perkins, if you insist on plagiarizing Shakespeare, we suggest you at least give him credit for his 'creation' somewhere along the way."
So it was confirmed: No one in publishing knew anything.
Customer Reviews:
It was just okay.......2006-12-02
I was looking forward to reading this book after reading the other reviews. The book was "just okay". I also have two other books by this author based on reviews. I hope I won't be equally disappointed.
Sadly disappointed.......2006-10-30
I just loved McCrae's "Tour of Southern Homes and Gardens" and bought this on the basis of that book and the online reviews. I regret the purchase and the time I spent reading it, continually hoping it was going to develop a story line that was sufficiently engaging, and a sense of humor that went beyond the juvenile. Sorry to be the dissenting voice on this one . . . maybe my literary tastes and my ability to discern the literary allusions and character development are just too impoverished, but I am sadly disappointed.
Great and fun book!.......2006-06-21
I can't seem to get over how great this book is. The story--just incredible, with twists and turns all over the place. Great pacing, great writing, great storytelling, and above all----great fun! Laugh-out-loud in places, and cynical and sarcastic in the next. I was reminded of the humor that you mind find on the TV show "House"---you know, the sarcastic hospital administrator? Something like that. One of the best books I've ever read, and the ONE that made me want to write in and tell everyone. You can't go wrong with this one.
i'm a reader, i read books, that's what i do.........2006-01-11
This book is rediculous, the charachter development is so good! There seems to be a lot of charachters but McCrae does such a great job of defining each one very distintively that you can easily keep up with everything. The book really seems like it would be a great movie..I hope it does..I love books/movies like this that have tons of things going on and you are trying to connect them all together and then suddenly everything is revealed..and this book does not fail in the "twisting plot" department. A lot of the characters are so weird..you start to wonder why Max (the main character) doesn't punch a lot of people in the face.
Brilliant, dark, cynical, full of literary and movie references.......2005-12-25
Katzenjammer is a whirlwind of a novel about the bizarre characters and situations young author Max Perkins encounters when he moves to New York to attempt to publish his debut novel. All he wants is a place to stay and a way to earn money to eat, but his search for roommates and jobs turns into a never ending series of Mormon missionaries, Devil worshippers, unbalanced pet owners, hermaphrodites, overweight bosses who forbid conversation, a foray into male prostitution, and more. The novel is full of dark, cynical humor and outrageous plot twists. Throughout Max's trials to bring his book to publication, there is an on-going mystery of cryptic packages and messages.
The novel is full of insights into the publishing world, including a brilliant decoder ring of what certain literary buzz phrases mean when they are applied to new works. McCrae concludes his novel with dozens of weight discussions/essay questions comparing Katzenjammer to Faust, Rosemary's Baby, Drugstore Cowboy, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and more. For anyone looking for an off-the-wall change from the usual literary fare, look no further. Also recommended are Paul Ford's Gary Benchley, Rock Star and Julia Slavin's Carnivore Diet.
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