Here is the blurb from the dust jacket:
Once a painting is underway, it often seems to take on a life of its own apart from the subject that first inspired it. While this is a common occurrence among practicing artists, the underlying idea is probably new to the art student who is often tied to the daily routine of copying the model, landscape, or still life. Award-winning artist and popular workshop instructor Al Brouillette is the first artist to explain how to handle the evolution of a painting-how to let go of your subject and let the painting itself take over.
The book is divided into three parts: 1. Search for the Painting (interpreting your subject); 11. Evolution of a Painting (how to let go of your subject); and 111. Reviewing the Basic Ideas. In Part 1, Brouillette begins his search for a good subject with a camera but then quickly explains how to use the camera creatively without copying. After comparing his photos to the paintings they inspired, he goes on to describe how to reduce the complex and detailed subject in front of him to its essential lines-and more important into broad masses of values. In Part 11, Brouillette runs through a series of typical paintings-a close-up of plants, a landscape, trees, flowers, a portrait with "character, " and other typical subjects to show how paintings evolve. He concludes with several paintings done in a series to show how a single subject can inspire a variety of treatments because if you put all of your ideas into a single painting, you'll ruin it. In Part 111, Brouillette analyzes a group of finished paintings in terms of the important lessons taught earlier in the book so you can see these basic premises in action. His self-analysis is searching, honest, and critical-and you can learn as much from this open attitude as you can from his personal critiques.
This is an inspiring book for intermediate artists on the brink of discovering that making the best art means "letting go."
144 pages. 81/4 x 11 (21 x 28 cm). Over 240 full-color illustrations. 30 black-and-white illustrations. Index.
Al Brouillette began as a layout-design artist for advertising agencies, then attended evening art classes at the Fort Worth Art Center School in 1966. By 1977 he decided to take the plunge into full-time painting and teaching.
Brouillette's work has appeared in American Artist (September 1980), Southwest Art (March 1976), Art Voices South, and in the books Creative Seascape Painting by Edward Betts, Mastering Color and Design in Watercolor (first edition) by Carl Schmalz, and Watercolor, the Creative Experience by Barbara Nechis. He is a member of several watercolor societies (American, National, Southwestern, Southern, and Texas), as well as Allied Artists of America and Audubon Artists. He is fisted in Who's Who in American Art and Who's Who in the South and Southwest His work, which is in many corporate and private collections, is represented by several Texan galleries: The Upstairs Gallery, Arlington; Jack Meier Gallery, Houston; The Gallery at Shoal Creek, Austin; Sol Del Rio Gallery, San Antonio; and the L&L Gallery, Longview.
He has had numerous one-man and group shows in Texas and Oklahoma, and has lectured and given workshops throughout the United States, including a few in Canada. Yet, despite his busy schedule, he still finds time to jury state and national watercolor shows, and demonstrate his personal approach to art.
Al Brouillette lives in Arlington, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, with his wife and two daughters.
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