Why a lensography ?
On my blog (http://walkonwater.canalblog.com/), I have already published a lot of information about Fine Arts, great masters, test bed for artist's materials, watercolour - pastel - oil painting tips and techniques, drawing, ...
It is a pleasure for me to share information, to help people to better understand the colours, the pigments and the media they are working with ... This is why I decided to become a lensmaster on Squidoo, to provide art ressources to more and more people, all over the world.
This page is a directory lens of all the Squidoo lenses that I have published so far.
I wish you a good "clicking - reading - surfing" !
1. About me
Where can you see my works on Squidoo ?
I paint all types of subject matter, from portraits to flowers, landscapes and cityscapes. For many years, I have explored different techniques and mediums but more recently have concentrated my activities on watercolour. I also work with pastel and oil painting.
- Catherine De Ryck on Squidoo
- Please visit this biographical lens to learn more about :
- my works,
- my favourite art techniques,
- the media I work with,
- the prizes and awards that I won,
- and more ...
2. Watercolour lenses
- Watercolour : what is negative painting ?
- Most painters work using the positive painting.
Discover how an alternative painting-process, named negative painting, can help you to improve your art works.
This lens explains what is negative space, what are the advantages of this technique, how to use it and combine it to positive painting (the most classical method).
3. Books that my lenses recommend
Find them easily on Amazon
Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines
Beginning and advanced artists will benefit from the negative painting concepts presented in "Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines". Author Linda Kemp shares her techniques for using the strength of negative space to create alluring paintings. Exercises featuring landscapes, florals, and motifs from nature give readers the skills and knowledge necessary to make their next watercolour a strinking piece of art.
Amazon Price: $15.63 (as of 12/01/2009) 
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence
Translated into thirteen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing-instruction guide. People from just about every walk of life : artists, students, corporate executives, architects, real estate agents, designers, engineers, ... have applied its revolutionary approach to problem solving.
The Los Angeles Times said it best: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is "not only a book about drawing, it is a book about living. This brilliant approach to the teaching of drawing . . . should not be dismissed as a mere text. It emancipates."
Amazon Price: $25.60 (as of 12/01/2009)
How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself: Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects
Nita Engle's approach to watercolour shows readers how to combine spontaneity and control to produce glowing, realistic paintings. Her method begins with action-filled exercises that demonstrate how to turn loose washes into light-filled watercolours with textural effects achieved by spraying, sprinkling, pouring, squirting, or stamping paint.
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 12/01/2009)
My blog
http://walkonwater.canalblog.com/
Please, come to visit my art blog.
There, you will find useful information about art, colour, watercolour, oil painting, pastel,mixed media, great masters, ... and you will also discover my works.
Do not hesitate to leave a comment, it will be appreciated !
Note : this art blog is written in French and English, you will have to scroll up/down to find the information in your own language.
Any (total or partial) reproduction of its content is strictly forbidden.
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