Painting Trees and Landscapes in Watercolor

128 Pages·1963·27.95 MB·English

by  Ted Kautzky

PAINTING
&
TREES LANDSCAPES
WATERCOLOR
IN
KAUTZKY
by TED
I,
PAINTING
TREES
AND
LANDSCAPES
WATERCOLOR
IN
by Ted Kautzky
Following Kautzky's now famous Ways
With Watercolor, this grandly-planned
companion volume offers valuable, never-
before-published information on how to
paint such important landscape com-
ponents as trees, roads, puddles, rain and
fog. It goes beyond the sound funda-
mentals of the first book to teach the
more difficult problems encountered in
details.
Sixteen paintings in full color plus
many, many sepia tone gravure studies
are used successfully by the author to
teach the fundamentals of good composi-
tion, value arrangement, balance, rhythm
and pattern of design. Basic brush strokes
for tree paintings are amply illustrated,
and separate chapters are devoted to
painting forests and different types of
trees. An unusual teaching aid is offered
in the ten specially provided practice
subjects. These subjects are designed to
be completed by the student according
to his own interpretation of value, color
and mood.
Beautifully presented in Kautzky's un-
surpassed style, this valuable book will
be warmly welcomed by all art students,
landscape architects, interior decorators,
commercial artists, amateur painters, and
by all those who are familiar with the
author's previous widely-popular books.
(See back page of jacket for more details)
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PAINTING
TREES & LANDSCAPES
WATERCOLOR
IN
TED KAUTZKY, N.A
REINHOLD PUBLISHING CORPORATION
NEW YORK
Copyright 1952
Reinhold Publishing Corporation
Eighth Printing, 1963
Printed in the United StatesofAmerica by Beck Engraving Company
Binding by Russell-Rutter
Library ofCongress
Catalog Card Number 52-10618
To
My
wife, Ruth a constant companion
y
on my travels and painting trips.
Ted Kautzky, born in Budapest, lived in Hungary
until 1923 when he came to the United States. He
was graduated from the University of Hungary in
1921. His paintings, exhibited in Europe and the
United States, have won many honors. In 1929 he
became an American citizen. He conducted his
own school in 1936 and 1937, taught at Pratt Insti-
tute in New York City during the next two years
and lectured at several universities. Besides being
a painter, the author has made an educational film
for Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc. and is
the author ofIVays with Water Color; PencilBroad-
sides and Pencil Pictures.
Among Ted Kautzky's many important prizes are:
the Medal of Honor of the American Watercolor
Society, the Gold Medal of the Allied Artists of
America, the Prize and Popular Prize of the Balti-
more Watercolor Club the Watercolor Prize of the
r
Salmagundi Club and the Obrig Prize of the
National Academy of Design. The latter two were
won in 1952. He is a memberof: National Academy
W
of Design, 1950; American 7atercolor Society;
W
Salmagundi Club, Philadelphia rater Color Club,
and other leading art organizations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1
MATERIALS
3
COMPOSITION 4
VALUE ARRANGEMENT
8
FOG AND RAIN
10
ROAD PUDDLES
12
ON PAINTING ROADS
14
USEFUL STROKES FOR PAINTING TREES
18
PAINTING TRUNKS AND FOLIAGE
20
THE FOREST
24
TEN VARIETIES OF TREES
28
THE WILLOWS
30
Plate: Willow Road 34
EVERGREENS
36
Plate: Grand Valley, Colorado 40
Plate: Loch Vale, Colorado 41
THE MAPLE TREE
44
Plate: Autumn in Vermont 47
Plate: Golden Maples 50
THE BIRCHES
52
Plate Along the Road in New England 56
:
Plate: Birches at Forest's Edge 57
THE SYCAMORE
60
Plate: Pennsylvania Farm 63
TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
THE PALMS
65
Plate: St. Philip's Church, Charleston, $. C 74
THE ELM TREE
76
Plate: New England Village 80
Plate: Farmland in Vermont 81
THE OAKS
84
Plate: The Gnarled Oak 87
Plate: Spanish Moss 90
LOMBARDY POPLAR AND ASPEN
92
Plate: Aspen Grove, Colorado 96
Plate: Poplars 97
MONTEREY CYPRESS
100
Plate: At Carmel Bay, California 103
PRACTICE SUBJECTS
105