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How to Paint Like Turner

By Nicola Moorby and Mike Chaplin and Tony Smibert
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How to Paint Like Turner reveals the secrets behind J.M.W. Turner's extraordinary watercolour techniques, enabling contemporary artists to emulate his masterful effects of light and atmosphere. The book begins with an accessible introduction to Turner's life, career, and materials, then guides readers through modern equivalents for today’s watercolourists. Organised by themes such as Sky, Water, Trees, and Fire, each chapter showcases a Turner work alongside step-by-step instructions from expert artists on recreating the piece and applying the techniques elsewhere. Featuring high-quality colour reproductions and a glossary of terms, this book is published with the authority of Tate, the leading centre for Turner scholarship.
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This book is ideal for watercolour painters seeking to deepen their technique, Turner's admirers, and anyone interested in British art history and practical arts & culture guides.

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J.M.W. Turner is one of the most influential and important British artists of all time. His watercolours, with their extraordinary effects of shifting light and dramatic cloudscapes, are especially highly regarded. This book reveals the secrets of his technique for the first time, allowing watercolourists to try them out for themselves.

J.M.W. Turner is one of the most influential and important British artists of all time. His watercolours, with their extraordinary effects of shifting light and dramatic cloudscapes, are especially highly regarded. This book reveals the secrets of his technique for the first time, allowing watercolourists to try them out for themselves.

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J.M.W. Turner is one of the most influential and important British artists of all time. His watercolours, with their extraordinary effects of shifting light and dramatic cloudscapes, are especially highly regarded.

How to Paint Like Turner reveals the secrets of his technique for the first time, allowing watercolourists to try them out for themselves. There is an accessible introduction that explores Turner's life and career and the materials he used to achieve the masterpieces we know and love today.

The book then goes on to list the modern materials that the twenty-first-century watercolourist will need if they aspire to take on similar subject matter. Successive chapters examine a particular theme, such as Sky, Water, Trees, Buildings, People, Animals, Sunrise, Moonlight, and Fire, illustrating each with one of Turner's works.

Expert contemporary watercolour artists then explain, step-by-step, how to paint a version of that particular picture and how to use the techniques learnt to paint other compositions.

With a glossary of technical terms, high-quality colour reproductions, and backed by the authority of Tate, the world centre for Turner scholarship, this is a must-buy purchase for all lovers of J.M.W. Turner and of watercolour painting.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781854378835

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 April 2010

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Tate Publishing

Illustration: 250 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

  • Contributions by Joyce Townsend
  • Edited by Nicola Moorby
  • Contributions by Mike Chaplin
  • Contributions by Tony Smibert
  • Edited by Ian Warrell
  • Contributions by Jacob Thomas

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 212.0mm

Height: 271.0mm

Weight: 688g

Pages: 144

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Arts & Culture Arts and Crafts Mike Chaplin Nicola Moorby Non-Fiction Tony Smibert

About the Author

Nicola Moorby works at Tate on the Turner Bequest.

Ian Warrell is curator of 18th- and 19th-century British art at Tate.

Joyce Townsend is senior conservation scientist at Tate and the author of Turner's Painting Techniques.

Mike Chaplin is a watercolor expert.

Tony Smibert is a painter based in Tasmania.

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