Atmosphere, Mood and Light
Atmosphere, Mood and Light

Author: Keith Fenwick

Publisher: North Light Books

Published: 2002-11-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781581803921

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Created in collaboration with Winsor & Newton, the world's leading supplier of art materials, this exciting new series of painting techniques and inspirational ideas is an asset for artists of every level of skill and experience. Packed with 6 complete, full-color demonstrations, each book aims to enhance artists' enjoyment of painting as well as broaden their techniques and skills.This book provides easy-to-follow steps to help readers create a painting packed with atmosphere, mood and light. They'll find invaluable advice on using a painted source of light to capture a particular time of day or specific mood. From start to finish, this guide helps artists give their watercolors just the right tone for the ambience they wish to convey.

Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung
Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung

Author: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2012-10-03

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 0804783454

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What are the various atmospheres or moods that the reading of literary works can trigger? Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has long argued that the function of literature is not so much to describe, or to re-present, as to make present. Here, he goes one step further, exploring the substance and reality of language as a material component of the world—impalpable hints, tones, and airs that, as much as they may be elusive, are no less matters of actual fact. Reading, we discover, is an experiencing of specific moods and atmospheres, or Stimmung. These moods are on a continuum akin to a musical scale. They present themselves as nuances that challenge our powers of discernment and description, as well as language's potential to capture them. Perhaps the best we can do is to point in their direction. Conveying personal encounters with poetry, song, painting, and the novel, this book thus gestures toward the intangible and in the process, constitutes a bold defense of the subjective experience of the arts.

Color and Light
Color and Light

Author: James Gurney

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2010-11-30

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0740797719

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Unlike many other art books only give recipes for mixing colors or describe step-by-step painting techniques, *Color and Light* answers the questions that realist painters continually ask, such as: "What happens with sky colors at sunset?", "How do colors change with distance?", and "What makes a form look three-dimensional?" Author James Gurney draws on his experience as a plain-air painter and science illustrator to share a wealth of information about the realist painter's most fundamental tools: color and light. He bridges the gap between abstract theory and practical knowledge for traditional and digital artists of all levels of experience.

The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression (2nd Edition)
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression (2nd Edition)

Author: Becca Puglisi

Publisher: JADD Publishing

Published: 2019-02-19

Total Pages: 541

ISBN-13: 0999296353

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The bestselling Emotion Thesaurus, often hailed as “the gold standard for writers” and credited with transforming how writers craft emotion, has now been expanded to include 56 new entries! One of the biggest struggles for writers is how to convey emotion to readers in a unique and compelling way. When showing our characters’ feelings, we often use the first idea that comes to mind, and they end up smiling, nodding, and frowning too much. If you need inspiration for creating characters’ emotional responses that are personalized and evocative, this ultimate show-don’t-tell guide for emotion can help. It includes: • Body language cues, thoughts, and visceral responses for over 130 emotions that cover a range of intensity from mild to severe, providing innumerable options for individualizing a character’s reactions • A breakdown of the biggest emotion-related writing problems and how to overcome them • Advice on what should be done before drafting to make sure your characters’ emotions will be realistic and consistent • Instruction for how to show hidden feelings and emotional subtext through dialogue and nonverbal cues • And much more! The Emotion Thesaurus, in its easy-to-navigate list format, will inspire you to create stronger, fresher character expressions and engage readers from your first page to your last.

Isla to Island
Isla to Island

Author: Alexis Castellanos

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-03-15

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1534469230

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"A wordless graphic novel in which twelve-year-old Marisol must adapt to a new life 1960s Brooklyn after her parents send her to the United States from Cuba to keep her safe during Castro's regime."--

Probing Experience
Probing Experience

Author: Joyce Westerink

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-11-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789048176755

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This book adheres to the vision that in the future compelling user experiences will be key differentiating benefits of products and services. It is the first book to combine academic and business viewpoints on measuring user experiences for product development. The book gathers authors from different backgrounds. This is a mosaic of their work, and that of Philips Research, in the assessment of user experience, covering the full range from academic research to commercial propositions.

David Curtis Light and Mood in Watercolour
David Curtis Light and Mood in Watercolour

Author: David Curtis

Publisher: Batsford Books

Published: 2015-07-30

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1849943230

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Stunning watercolour title new in paperback. Leading watercolourist reveals the secrets behind his atmospheric, light-filled paintings. Watercolour is ideal for capturing the transient effects of light and, with compact and lightweight materials, is the perfect medium for plein-air painting. Leading watercolour painter David Curtis is a strong advocate of working on site, observing and capturing changing conditions and effects. In this beautifully illustrated book, he explains in detail his two main methods for working on location – for quick, loose studies and for more controlled and detailed paintings. He also shows how to collect reference material on the spot and develop this into resolved paintings back at the studio. He provides helpful instruction on interpreting light effects, with strong guidance on choosing materials, exploring techniques, composition, tone and colour and associated topics. This invaluable advice is complemented by a wealth of sketches, finished works and step-by-step demonstration paintings to illustrate different points and inspire further ideas. Reference Light and Mood in Watercolour hardback (9780713489552) Leading watercolourist reveals the secrets behind his light-filled paintings How to work en plein air to capture the transient effects of light How to collect reference material on location but paint in the studio Bestselling title new in paperback

Atmospheres: Aesthetics of Emotional Spaces
Atmospheres: Aesthetics of Emotional Spaces

Author: Tonino Griffero

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1317177495

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Originally published in Italian in 2010, this book is the first to address the theory of atmospheres in a thorough and systematic way. It examines the role of atmospheres in daily life, and defines their main characteristics. Outlining the typical phenomenological situations in which we experience atmospheres, it assesses their impact on contemporary aesthetics. It puts forward a philosophical approach which systematises a constellation of affects and climates, finds patterns in the emotional tones of different spaces (affordances) and assesses their impact on the felt body. It also critically discusses the spatial turn invoked by several of the social sciences, and argues that there is a need for a non-psychologistic rethinking of the philosophy of emotions. It provides a history of the term 'atmosphere' and of the concepts anticipating its meaning (genius loci, aura, Stimmung, numinous, emotional design and ambiance), and examines the main ontological characteristics of atmospheres and their principal phenomenological characteristics. It concludes by showing how atmospheres affect our emotions, our bodies' reactions, our state of mind and, as a result, our behaviour and judgments. Griffero assesses how atmospheres are more effective than we have been rationally willing to admit, and to what extent traditional aesthetics, unilaterally oriented towards art, has underestimated this truth.