The Magic of Texture

The cover art alone for Splash 6 is worth the price of the book! Paul W. McCormack's work is phenomenal. I stared forever at the velvet dress he paints. This book is definitely about texture. This Splash edition has more portrait painting than some of the others and the artists are good! It also has a fair amount of architectural painting. This is my favorite Splash for its outstanding paintings. Rachel Rubin Wolf does a nice job of editing the work for her books.

As an established commercial airbrush artist, just beginning to dabble in watercolor fine art I found "Splash 6" very inspiring. It has opened my eyes to the amazing potential of watercolors and I highly recommend this book to fellow artists and lovers of fine art.

I was given this book just two weeks ago, but have already been through it several times. As its title suggests, it does indeed focus on depicting texture in watercolors, but I kept forgetting that as I turned each page and was stunned by the incredible artwork. I liked this book the most because of the diversity of paintings included. It has examples of serious, whimsical, traditional, avant-garde, representational, abstract... You name it! It helped open up my mind as to what watercolor could be.The only negative thing I have to say is that I feel a little intimdiated about picking up my brush again. I was telling my watercolor teacher that I know I can never be as good as these artists. She said, "Yeah, when I saw this book, I thought, 'Why bother?'" But she is picking up her brush again as I am, and we have a wealth of new ideas and techniques to try out.My nine-year-old niece was even impressed with this book!

I have the entire set of Splash books and Splash 6 is by far the best of the set i highly recommend this book to any and all artists