Taylor David, Ranson Ron. Solving The Mystery of Watercolor

International Artist, 2002. — 117 p. — ISBN 1929834209.Ron Ranson has collaborated with David Taylor to produce an exceptional book that manages to break down the main barriers to improvement in watercolour - lack of confidence and reluctance to practice the important skills. In an entertaining, authoritative and helpful way, they show how to build on the important lessons of watercolour so readers can paint the peaceful scenes they've always wanted to paint. Each lesson in this Watercolour-course-in-a-book is specifically designed to build ability, promote dexterity with the brush, and show the techniques and design principles that each student must know in order to master watercolour. At the same time, examples, experiments and explanations nurture readers' own creative vision so they feel they're getting much more than just the basics of painting.David Taylor's Artwork and Ron Ranson's commentary combine to produce an outstanding work on watercolour painting. David has the ability to simplify the most complex scene into a magical piece of artwork: displaying bold brush strokes with the ability to get it right first time; His use of positive and negative space is brilliant, clearly showing an understanding of watercolour and how to bring out the very essence of his chosen subjects so beautifully.