Painting from the Inside Out

by Stroud, Betsy Dillard

• ISBN13: 9781581801224
• ISBN10: 158180122X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: North Light Books

Summary

Artists can sometimes feel as though they're in a creative rut. with Painting From the Inside Out, readers will use fun and inspiring exercises to break out of that rut and create exciting, innovative new paintings every time they pick up a brush! Each chapter highlights demonstrations and inspirations that will enable readers to push past boundaries and explore new ideas, including exercises for loosening up, improvisational painting, combining mediums and more. These lessons will help readers think about art in new and imaginative ways, then render such imaginings with a variety of useful techniques. Betsy Dillard Stroud has had 19 one-woman exhibitions. Her artwork has been displayed in over 140 state, regional and national shows. It hangs in over 200 corporate and private collections worldwide. Betsy has written for American Artist, Southwest Art, Watercolor and Watercolor Magic magazines, and is the Associate Editor of North America for International Artist magazine. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Author Biography

Betsy Dillard Stroud is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society and the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Society. She is a former president of the Southwestern Watercolor Society based in Dallas, and is a Life Member and Royal Scorpion of the Arizona Watercolor Association. A winner of 22 awards, one of which includes a High Winds Medal from the American Watercolor Society, Stroud has had twenty-two one-woman exhibitions of her work. She has exhibited in over 140 invitational, joint and competitive national and regional shows. She teaches painting workshops nationally and locally at the Scottsdale Artists' School and the Shemer Art Center in Phoenix. Stroud served as Associate Editor of North America for International Artist Magazine (1998-2001) and is a frequent contributor to many art magazines. She lives in Scottsdale with her very bad dogs, Scalawag and Edgar

Table of Contents

Introduction	8	(2)
Materials	10	(2)
Warming Up	12	(8)
{demonstration: zen painting}
zen painting with negative shapes
imago ignota painting
painting with one-hundred strokes
what do I do now?
daring design	20	(6)
{demonstration: the yellow line ``eat your heart out, picasso'' exercise}
texture and painterly surfaces	26	(22)
an odyssey of textures
different kinds of textures
stamping on textures
{demonstration: creating textures in acrylic}
{demonstration: creating textures in watercolor}
{demonstration: seven-layer exercise}
improvisational painting	48	(14)
{demonstration: pouring with watercolor}
{demonstration: pouring with acrylic}
transparent beginnings, opaque endings	62	(14)
{demonstration: acrylic on illustration board}
{demonstration: acrylic over black gesso}
{demonstration: acrylic on canvas}
say it with flowers	76	(26)
{demonstration: painting a floral vignette}
{demonstration: organic shapes and geometric contrasts}
painting flowers wet-into-wet
dark subject, light background
light subject, dark background
{demonstration: painting expressive flowers}
{demonstration: using a muted palette}
{demonstration: working with interference paint}
the kitchen sink	102	(22)
{demonstration: painting on gouache with thick watercolor}
{demonstration: ink and tempera resist with watercolor}
{demonstration: matte medium lift-out over a watercolor underpainting}
{demonstration: the kitchen sink}
creative content	124	(12)
paint a creative self-portrait
paint from memory
take a new approach
work in a series
paint a personal shield
paint from dreams
invent personal symbols
use ideas from books
paint from your writing
paint from a ``what-if'' list
A Few Words About Abstract Art	136	(3)
Bibliography	139	(1)
Conclusion	140	(1)
Contributors	141	(1)
Index	142