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Discover the pleasures of creating big art on a small canvas! There are plenty of reasons to paint small. Smaller canvases allow you to enjoy everything you love about oil painting with less expense, less mess, less space and less time. What could be better?Think Big Paint Small (previously published as Big Art Small Canvas and updated with new demonstrations and art) gives you all the guidance you need to succeed at creating small paintings. You'll find more than 12 step-by-step demonstrations that show you how to paint a variety of still lifes and landscapes--all on canvases measuring four inches or less! You'll learn how to:Scale down your subjects to fit a smaller areaCreate dimension, depth and volume in your compositionsPaint realistic shadows and highlightsCapture a range of textures and reflective surfacesEach demonstration guides you from blank canvas to completed painting.
About the Author
Joyce Washor spent her first ten years in Brooklyn, NY and then became a Jersey girl until graduating from Douglass College, Rutgers University. In 1997, after spending 25 years as a textile designer in NYC she made plans to devote herself to painting full time. But fate had other plans- a painting related shoulder injury required her to reevaluate her painting techniques. It seemed she had two choices: learn to paint with her left arm/hand or scale her paintings down in size in order to use her wrist instead of her shoulder. Since painting small enabled her to learn more quickly, purchase art supplies less expensively and have more opportunities to exhibit she resolved to share her experiences in book, PDF and DVD formats.
Joyce lives with her artist/chef husband L. Paul Saltzman in Woodstock NY enjoying three grandchildren and teaching watercolor in her home studio. www.JoyceWashor.com
