The Best of Watercolor - Hardcover

Betty Lou Schlemm, A.W.S., D.F., has been painting for more than thirty years. Elected to the American Watercolor Society in 1964, and later elected to the Dolphin Fellowship, she has served as both regional vice-president and director of the American Watercolor Society. Ms. Schlemm is also a teacher and an author. Her painting workshops in Rockport, Massachusetts, have become renowned during the past twenty-nine years. Her book Painting with Light, published by Watson-Guptill in 1978, has remained a classic. She also has recently published a book titled, Watercolor Secrets for Painting Light, distributed by North Light, Cincinnati. (hometown: Rockport, MA).

Serge Hollerbach is a Russian born artist who has studied at Munich Academie of Fine Arts, Art Students League in New York, and the American Art School in New York. He is a member of the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society, the Allied Artists of America, the Audubon Artists, and the National Society of Painters. Hollerbach has also been elected to the Dolphin Fellowship.

Watercolor is often thought to be an easy medium. It is not. Tricky, but also very flexible, it gives artists the opportunity to use it in a variety of ways - from transparent wet-in-wet washes to tight renderings, from bold brush strokes to dry brush. This flexibility encourages them to work in different modes of expression. Jurors looking at slides see realism, impressionism, hard-edge abstraction, symbolism, and all kinds of in-between trends artists choose to follow.