Zoltan szabo artist biography

Zoltan Szabo (1928-2003) was an evocative landscape watercolorist, prolific workshop instructor, and author of dozens of books. Today, I’ll be looking at his 1998 book Zoltan Szabo’s Color-by-Color Guide to Watercolor.

This is basically a coffee table book with spreads for various selected colors, showing a painting that features that color and providing some information such as characteristics and alternatives.

I can see how this book might have been useful in a pre-Handprint world, though it’s now out-of-date, not to mention lacking in hard facts (it contains no pigment numbers, for instance).

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Some of the information is suspect, and much of the text feels like filler. Still, it’s a beautifully-designed book with gorgeous pictures and sumptuous color. My partner saw me reading this and called it my equivalent of a soft baby book: just a nice sensory experience.

My favorite thing about the book is the paintings: Szabo shows a reference photo and then a painting mad Zoltan Szabo - Watercolourist Supreme: 1928-2003 - Blogger CIXUF