Abstract Nature by Waltraud Nawratil

  Abstract Nature by Waltraud Nawratil

 Info:

 Seiten:112
 Sprache: Englisch
 Verlag: Search Press (8. November 2016)
 ISBN-10:1782212388
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Bewertung: 9/10

 Klappentext:

German artist Waltraud Nawratil shows you how to combine a love for nature with a passion for expressive painting. Abstract Nature is divided into helpful sections to teach the reader how to use acrylics, watercolors, airbrushing, putty and stencils, as well as natural materials such as sand, bark and leaves to create captivating pictures full of color and vitality.

There is a wealth of stunning abstract pieces from the artists, which will provide inspiration for more experienced painters as well as the beginner. The book covers the variations through all seasons teaching the reader to see the natural world with creativity and a unique, new perspective.

Review: 

The Austrian artist Waltraut Nawratil wants to paint pictures that radiate happiness and are able to transmit the happiness to the observer. In her colourful motifs she combines the softness of watercolour with the strength and dynamism of acrylic painting.

In this book you will see the seasonal changes in plants like flowers and trees over the course of a year.

In the first chapter Waltraud Nawratil tells something about the materials and tools she uses. For her mixed media technique, she needs brushes as well as unusual things like spatulas, roller and palette knifes. She prefers a mixture of acrylic paints, spray varnish, aquarelle watercolors and airbrush paints. Additional materials like marble powder, paste, acrylic binder, pressed bark or leaves and stencils are other important elements of her pictures.

The following chapter gives an overview of the preferred painting techniques and of a lot of examples. Valuable tips from her art studio help to avoid mistakes and give you interesting suggestions for image correction that are easily done with acryl paint.

The author searches and finds inspiration in nature. When a painter runs out of ideas he should walk amongst nature. The variety of colours and motifs inspires everyone. Every season has its own flowers and trees.

The next section follows the course of the seasons and shows the differences in the motifs and the chosen colours.

The chapter „Spring“ starts painting with six examples step by step. A full page illustration and a detailed view assist a detailed text description, that also contains a detailed list of materials colours and tools

There are examples for every taste (Flowering dandelion, poppy and wild cumin, ox-eye daisy, birch trees in spring, spring mood in the forest) The other season are discussed equally detailed. The in the beginning shown true-to-nature examples get with new variations progressively more abstracted. At that the artist’s experiments with different passepartouts, which she sprinkles with sand.

In the final chapter Waltraud Nawratil shows us a gallery of a few examples of nature in different variations.

Conclusion:

Abstract nature is intended for advanced painters, who search ideas and inspiration for their own interpretations of nature studies with the mixed media technic. Not the exact step by step drawing is important, but the reading of informative texts, the observation of expressive, colorful pictures by W. Nawratil and of course the development of a personal abstract style.