Light Up Your Watercolors Layer by Layer

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Excellent selection

A decent learning resource

Needed details in instruction

Gorgeous work but you won't be able to learn it from this

Very Intensive Layering Techniques

Light Up Your Watercolors Layer by Layer
Linda Stevens Moyer
Manufacturer: North Light Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1581801890

Book Description

Watercolorists of all skill levels will find page-after-page of valuable instruction in this intriguing new book. Linda Stevens Moyer shows them how to create transparent watercolors with simple techniques and step-by-step mini-demos. She also provides must-have advice on color theory and the basics of painting light and texture-the individual parts that make up the "language of light."

Moyer then show readers how to put this "language" to use to create beautiful, luminous paintings by layering with watercolor. Demos, color wheels, and call-outs to specific areas of paintings illustrate how every technique can be applied to create a radiant finished painting.

Finally, five mini-demos allow you to practice the layering process on simple subjects. Three larger demonstrations help you practice your skills on a complete painting.

Linda Stevens Moyer has been the recipient of many awards including a number of first place awards such as the Gold Medal of Honor from AWS and Allied Artists of America and Watercolor West. She has taught and exhibited her work throughout the country. Her paintings have been published in Splash 1 and 2, The Artist's Magazine and American Artist. She lives in Stansbury Park, Utah.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent selection.......2007-01-11

The artist is a master a lighting up watercolors. Easy to follow instructions, informative and enlightening. Suggested great reading for the novice watercolorist and exceptional reading for the master.

A decent learning resource.......2005-03-14

Enamoured by the beautiful watercolor paintings in this book, i purchased it as a learning resource. The concepts of color theory & using color, & light, explained here are useful. However,instructions with more details would definitely have helped understand the artist' technique, as well as further my painting experience.

Needed details in instruction.......2004-03-12

It is very important to me as a serious artist to be able to understand thru detail of how am image is painted. Why buy and spend the money for a book unless it is completely useful. I can look at pictures all day and try to figure out how to paint it but if I buy a book to show me, I expect to learn a lot.

Gorgeous work but you won't be able to learn it from this.......2004-02-10

I LOVE Moyer's work, unfortunately the mini lessons provided in the book, while useful, will not lead to a rendering of images anywhere close to those you'll drool over in this book.
I enjoy just looking at her work and aspiring to paint in this style, but this book is not in-depth enough or step-by-step enough to get you to this level of work.

Very Intensive Layering Techniques.......2003-08-19

I used this book as a resource. Her techniques are very different from the relaxed teachings of my earlier days. I am more able to see the effects layering will have on my final results. I am able to better see the end effect of layering several colors over one another in my mind since completing these lessons. Much of it is admiring the beautiful and observing "mini lessons" which really do need to be full lessons. I would recommend at least some painting experience for this book.

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This is 19th century Paris, documented in perfect detail by one of its earliest and greatest photographers, Charles Marville. In 1865 Marville was retained by the Historical Works Commission to make a record of a Paris about to be destroyed by major new town planning projects - a Paris that would disappear forever.

Within these pages, his unique documentation is superbly reproduced and, as a fitting finale, Marville's Paris closes with an expose of these exciting new streets including Avenue de L'Opera and the Boulevard de SŽbastopol. Also presented are a series of picturesque views taken in the early 1850's; and works commissioned by Prefect Haussmann for the City of Paris, encompassing a broad array of lamp posts, urinals, benches, and gates, plus views of parks, garden squares, and sections of the Bois de Boulogne. Identical in format to the phenomenally successful Atget Paris, Marville's Paris presents another fantastic vision of a long lost, phantom city.

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This is a well-reproduced and thorough collection........1998-07-10

Marville, who began his career as a printmaker specializing in landscapes, initially took up photography as an aid to his art. This volume collects his photographs of Paris, mostly taken during the 1870s, between two covers. Sections cover monuments, utilities (street lights, etc.), and street scenes. Marville photographed Paris while the planning reforms of Hausmann were pushing the wide boulevards for which the city is well known, through districts that had not changed for centuries. His photographs show the texture of the built environment, the effects of change, the material basis of economic life, as well as some of the effects of the supression of the Paris Commune. Few of the photographs show people; his intention was to document settings, rather than inhabitants. Readers should be aware that what little text there is in this volume is in French. In addition, the covers are not well attached to the pages, and mine had come loose prior to my purchasing the book. Otherwise, it is well bound. I Highly recommend this book to those with an interest in photography, architacture, or Paris. It is well worth the price.

Spleens de Paris, 1850-1914: Nerval, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Marville, Atget

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Spleens de Paris, 1850-1914: Nerval, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Marville, Atget

Manufacturer: Paris Bibliotheques
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 2843310423

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Not worthy of the Samurai Shodown name..........2002-08-02

If you're looking for a manga at the quality level of Blade of the Immortal, you'll be sorely disappointed by this one. The dialogue, which I believe was translated from Japanese, is choppy and makes little sense. A lot of the time, it's as if the translators just said, "Well, I don't know. Let's just throw something in to fill the word bubble." The plot is predictable and boring, mostly consisting of introducing new characters once per chapter. Main characters are still being introduced in the last chapter, for crying out loud! The artwork is decent as long as characters are just standing around talking, but when the action starts, you really can't tell what's going on. You can kind of see the character's head, and the rest of the page is filled up by a big, white "swoosh." The characters yell out the name of the attack they're doing, but even though I'm a fan of the video game series the manga is based on, I still couldn't really recognize any of the attacks they were doing. I would say that this book is only for the hardcore Samurai Shodown fan, but since most of the major characters (the ones who progress the thin plot anyway) are not in any of the games (and aren't very interesting at all), I can't even really say that. Since this book ignores most of the Samurai Shodown games, ignores the history that the games are based on (Hattori Hanzo and Amakusa Shiro Tokisada were real people, you know), has terrible artwork during the parts that are supposed to be interesting, and doesn't have a real plot to speak of, I can't really recommend it to anyone. I gave it the star rating of two instead of one because the artwork is decent when they are jut standing around talking, and Haohmaru always looks good posing with his sword.

Anime search.......2000-01-25

I've read the comic and it has great animation. The story is original japaneze.The drawings are cool, sharp, new, and the monster demons are unreally cool! It's a story with a samurai who wants to find his ultimate match in a fight. He is soon joined by a priestess who is out to stop this monstrous war. Other characters are added, and an intricate plot with tons of adventure and battling invotes you to read on. So I recomend it for any anime comic reader who is searching for more intruiging manga. Get it if your interested.

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Jimmy Stewart, Bomber Pilot chronicles the stars long journey to become a bomber pilot in combat. Author Starr Smith recounts how Stewarts first battles were with the Air Corps high command, who insisted on keeping the naturally talented pilot out of harms way as an instructor pilot for B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators.We learn how, by 1944, Stewart managed to get assigned to a Liberator squadron that was deploying to England to join the mighty Eighth Air Forceand how, once in the thick of it, he rose to command his own squadron and flew 20 combat missions, including one to Berlin.Written by a public relations officer assigned to Stewart, Jimmy Stewart, Bomber Pilot offers a fascinating, firsthand look at the making of true American star.

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I Wanted to Like this Book.......2007-09-23

In reading the other reviews of this book, I found something very interesting: both the positive and negative are basically correct. This book is a near love letter to Stewart, but it also really fails to describe his military experiences. Stewart was the Pat Tillman of another era. He enlisted--enlisted--in the U.S. Army before--I repeat--before Pear Harbor. This after he was an Oscar winning movie star. The book is good at building up and describing Stewart's early career in Hollywood and his initial training. You get a good feel for his leadership ability. Then, the author fails to deliver. There is nothing about the missions Stewart flew. The book reads like a series of articles from unit alumni newsletters. It strikes me that Smith used this book as a post-retirment mechanism to renew old friendships from the war, and while everyone seems to agree that Stewart was an amazing man of integrity and character, they fail to provide any meaningful evidence to support their position.

The Camera Doesn't Lie.......2007-02-18

The first step towards writing a good book is to pick a good subject. Chances are, even if you are not that great of a writer or do not have something especially compelling to say, if you have picked a good subject then the book will float on its own. Jimmy Stewart is a good subject and Starr Smith's brief biography of him, focusing primarily on his service as pilot in World War II, floats. Starr Smith served as an Intelligence Officer with the Eighth Air Force and became acquainted with Jimmy Stewart in London when they were stationed together. Stewart served in London as a Bomber pilot with the Eighth Air Force. It's a little known fact that service as a Bomber Pilot in World War II was more dangerous than service as an infantryman. For an Oscar-winning movie star to brave those risks was exceptional. For me, this was an uplifting and enjoyable book.

Jimmy Stewart was born in Pennsylvania in 1908 and grew up in Indiana. He became entranced with acting during his senior year of high school and continued to act when he went on to Princeton University. After graduation, Stewart worked as an actor in Massachusetts with a small acting company where he met another aspiring actor who would become his room-mate when they subsequently went to New York. That actor was Henry Fonda. The two actors shared a love of airplanes and flying and often spent evenings in their small New York apartment building model airplanes.

Stewart and Fonda both landed in Hollywood in 1935 and launched upon successful movie careers. Stewart had gotten wide acclaim for his role in "Mr Smith Goes to Washington" and later won an Academy Award for his role in the "Philadelphia Story" in 1939. But when war came, Stewart volunteered for service with the Army. He was initially turned away because he was too light but, undeterred, he gained the required weight and joined up, eventually earning an officer's commission as a pilot. Despite frequent attempts to get to combat duty in Europe, Stewart served as a flight instructor in the states until he finally got his wish and landed a combat assignment with the Eighth Air Force in London. The Eighth Air Force -- which is featured in the classic war film "Twelve O'Clock High" (a must own) -- had the mission of flying the precarious daylight bombing raids over Germany.

This brings us to the best part of the book: first-hand testimonials from Stewart's men on what type of officer and leader he was. Unsurprisingly, he was a very competent pilot and an active leader who was very involved in the details of his job. The below quote from one of Stewart's men says a lot about his leadership style:

"Jimmy Stewart walked all through the airplane, checking us all out, and returned to the flight deck. On the intercom he asked each crew position questions about our routine. He asked me, "What are you doing now, Sergeant Robinson? What do you see out the waist window? Can you see the supercharger position? Are the exhausts smoking? What color is the engine exhaust? How much fuel do we have on board? Are you checking it? Are the fuel gauges off and drained?"

Stewart wanted to see every engineer on the flight deck. I went forward. Then more questions. "Robinson, can you fly as first engineer? Can you operate all turrets? Can you arm the bombs?" He had a question about everything. Stewart really knew this airplane. He wanted us to know it too."

After the war, Stewart married at the age of 41 and raised a family with twin daughters in Hollywood. He had a stepson killed in action in Vietnam while serving as a Marine officer. Stewart went on to become a Brigadier General in the Air Force reserve and remained most proud of his service during the war - much more so than his many acting accomplishments. In conclusion, this book leads us to believe that the camera captured Stewart's true essence in his most famous role as Frank Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life." Like Bailey, Stewart lived a wonderful life; and it is this fact more than anything else that makes this book such an inspiring and enjoyable read.

BOMB.......2007-01-05

This book is lousy with a Capital "L". Shallow, superficial, with almost no detail about the missions flown. Even includes one totally irrelevant chapter about Army maneuvers conducted in Lousiana- that Stewart had no part in at all! There are no insights into Stewart's personality- all we find out is that he conducted excellent pre-mission briefings, and that he was a skilled pilot- which most Jimmy Stewart fans know already.

Almost a third of the book deals with other irrelevancies, like the Jimmy Stewart museum and how he married and raised a family- after the war.

Don't waste your money.

A good read but somewhat disappointing.......2006-10-20

I was well aware of Jimmy Stewart's military record when I set out to read this book. I was, however, anxious to learn a bit more about Stewart's combat exploits during World War II. In that regard, this book was somewhat disappointing. Rather than let us get inside Stewart's heart and mind and sense what he experienced, it appears to chronicle Stewart's time in service, letting us know where, when, and in what capacities he served; what a great guy he was, how dedicated and successful he was, and when and to what ranks he was promoted; and, in general, what many of those who served with him thought of him, but it never gets down to the nitty-gritty of what he actually did at a personal level. The reader, it would seem, is always looking from the outside in.

I was also disappointed by the fact that much of the book isn't even about Jimmy Stewart. Stewart seems to be a thread running through a broader story about World War II in Europe and, more specifically, the air war as fought by our B-24 Liberator bomb groups. I say that because more often than not the author deviates from his presumed subject, Stewart, and goes off on a tangent (e.g., Eisenhower's appointment, George C. Marshall, one officer or another, the Louisiana Maneuvers of 1940, manufacturing B-24 bombers, the Wright crew, Churchill and Roosevelt at Casablanca, and various reminiscences of one person or another). Perhaps I'm being too critical, but I would estimate that only about 30% of the book actually deals directly with Jimmy Stewart while the remainder concerns other topics. And much of the 30% is a bit repetitive.

All that said, this is still an interesting history of the air war in Europe, much of it in the words of men who actually served with Jimmy Stewart. From that standpoint, it is well worth reading. After doing so, the reader will know where Stewart served, in what capacities, how many missions he flew, when he was promoted, what people thought of him, what medals and commendations he won, and where the Brigadier General James Maitland Stewart museum is located, but he or she probably won't have a real sense of the man, himself. But, maybe only Jimmy Stewart could have told that side of the story, and he was much too unpretentious a man to ever do so.

Humility comes before Honor-Stewart had both.......2006-03-27

Smith does a nice job recounting the days the Jimmy Stewart spent in the military during WWII. I found it very detailed oriented and less filled with anecdotes than I would have thought all these years removed from WWII. I knew a bit about Stewart's involvement in the Army Air Corps, which became the Air Force, but this book really filled in the details of his time during the war. Guys like Jimmy Stewart are a far cry from the phonies like Alec Baldwin who threaten to go back to Canada but wind up sticking around the USA to sap of of our money with second rate films.

I think you will be amazed to find out all that Stewart had to do in order to become the hero he was. He was not drafted as a previous review claims, rather he inlisted against the will of the studio. He also had to endure undesired special treatment because no one wanted to put him in harms way. Eventually his desire to train for and see active duty prevailed and some forty odd years later this film star retired as Gen. Stewart, donating all of his retirement money back to the Air Force.

This is a great book about an American hero. Like many of his day, Glen Miller, Ronald Reagan. Stewart did not wait he willingly enlisted!

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Jimmy Stewart Bomber Pilot
Starr Smith
Manufacturer: ZENITH
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SMQCP2

Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot.(Book review): An article from: Air & Space Power Journal

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Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot.(Book review): An article from: Air & Space Power Journal
Grant T. Hammond
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Title: Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot.(Book review)
Author: Grant T. Hammond
Publication: Air & Space Power Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2006
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JIMMY STEWART: BOMBER PILOT
Starr Smith
Manufacturer: Mbi Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MGXOIW

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In 1978, Sean Mayes toured the world with David Bowie. Traveling first class and performing each night with one of the world's greatest rock stars at the height of his fame was an amazing experience. Fortunately, Sean had the foresight to document it. Here for the first time, Sean's tour diary is presented -- a blow-by-blow record of how it felt to be part of a real rock circus. Providing page after page of fascinating insights into life on the road with Bowie, Sean's account is a unique travelogue, a must for any Bowie fan or anyone interested in discovering the details of a sell-out world tour. Also includes a full tour chronology and previously unpublished photos from Sean's personal archive.

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Interesting book but it's not all about Bowie.......2004-09-11

This is a really interesting book about the highs and lows of being on a major year long tour in the late 1970s. Long before the Serious Moonlight tour changed how the game is played. First class travel and high end parties one day, crappy hotels and seedy bars the next. What is unusual and interesting is the constant search for casual sex which runs through the book, with females, but mostly males. It's not done in a seedy way but don't buy if this type of thing bothers you. Also if you are expecting the majority of the book to be about the actual shows and Bowie then again this isn't for you. The shows are discussed and it's interesting but it's mainly in passing (also the photos aren't anything special). It's clear that Bowie enjoyed Sean Mayes company and Mayes admired Bowie hugely and there is lots of interesting anecdotes of time they spent together and how Bowie handled his fans. If nothing else it made we want to break out my copy of Stage and give it a spin.

Short but interesting tour.......2000-04-27

This is an intriguing view of David Bowie's life when on tour in 1978. It is an view most people do not get to see. It is especially interesting to see who he was then prior to his mega wealth, but at a very popular point in his career. A must for an avid David Bowie fan.

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The aim of this book is to explore the current research into the ways in which Andean peoples create, transmit, maintain and transform their knowledge in culturally significant ways, and how processes of teaching and learning relate to these. The contributions, from eminent researchers in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies and linguistics, include cross-disciplinary approaches, and cover a diverse geographic area from Ecuador to Peru, Bolivia and Northern Chile. The case studies reflect on the variously harmonious and conflictive relationships between knowledge, power, communicative media and cultural identities in Andean societies, from within local, national and global perspectives.

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