Urban Watercolor Sketching

Felix Scheinberger is a German illustrator, artist, and designer. He has illustrated dozens of children's books, and has had work commissioned for Harvard Business Manager, Designer's Digest, Le Monde Diplomatique, Slanted Magazine, Belletristik, and Psychology Today.

“If you like urban bustle and disorganisation… you’ll love the book. It’s American, brash and makes no concessions to sensitivity, happily accosting you and telling you how it is”– The Artist

• INTROWatercolors—In or Out?A Painting for the EmperorGum Arabic: Where the Watercolors GrowPigments: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made OfYellow and Orange: Of Camels and CrocusesRed and Purple: Of Bugs and SnailsBlue: Of Lapis Lazuli, Indigo, and WoadGreen: Of Plants and PoisonIntroducing Color to Sketches:We’re Not in Kansas Anymore  FIRST ATTEMPTSMultiple Choice: To Design Is to DecideFrom Dusk till Dawn: Shadows and LightBlack Is Back: Glazing with India InkLayer for Layer: The GlazeMixing Colors with GlazesFish Soup: Practicing the GlazeThe Wash: The Paint Does as It Pleases!On the Run: Graded Wash TechniquesOnce More, with Feeling!: WashesIt’s a Give and Take: Applying and Removing Paint Wet-on-WetCombining Techniques: A Little Bit of This and That   EXCURSION IN COLOR THEORYWhere Do Colors Come From?:  The Simple ScienceArranging ColorsOpposites Attract: Color ContrastsFrom South Park to Stoplights: Types of ColorTrue Color: The Effect of Light Every Color Tells a Story: Intensifying Your SketchesIt’s All Relative: The Effects of ColorsColor Harmonies: Simple and ComplexAnalogous, Monochromatic, and Complementary HarmoniesTriadic and Tetradic HarmoniesCool-Cool and Warm-Warm HarmoniesCollecting ColorsDesigning Color Harmonies: Working with Color Code StripsGetting Out of Your Color Comfort Zone  The Blue Ridge Mountains: Color and Perspective  YOUR OWN STYLELess Is MoreMe, Myself, and I: Finding Your Own StyleStyle and CreativityThrowing Down: Loosening Up Your PaintingSeek Not and You Shall Find: Imagination vs. InternetMake It MatterPriorities   BASICS / TOOLSPaintboxesWatercolor PencilsBuying PaintsMixing PaintsImpossible Hues: Bright ColorsPimping Watercolors: Making Colors PopLiquid Watercolors: Bright Now, Pale LaterInto the Wild: BrushesEven More BrushesPaper The Permanent Wave: Stretching Paper The Contents of My BagOUT & ABOUTBad Weather: Painting OutdoorsThe Other Viewpoint: Changing PerspectivePainting Water  Air, Fog, SmokeSmog and AtmosphereWhat Is Beauty Anyway? TIPS & TRICKSComposition and DesignSmudges and SpotsPainting What’s Not There: Negative SpaceWhite: A Special CaseStudies, Sketches, and Drafts  UndoMerging Colors: Working from One ColorWorking with Colored PaperSpecial EffectsLettering and WritingLayouts, Scribbles, and StoryboardsWatercolor IllustrationsHow Much Is Your Picture Worth?Everything Ends: When Is a Picture Finished?Index