Background
Betts, Edward was born on August 4, 1920 in Yonkers, New York, United States. Son of Harrison and Mildred (Waterbury) Betts.
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Master Class in Watermedia: Techniques in Traditional and Experimental Painting by Betts, Edward (1993) Hardcover
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Creative Landscape Painting Hardcover - 1978
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Master Class in Watermedia: Techniques in Traditional and Experimental Painting
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Using the author's work as an inspiring point of departure, participants in this master class learn to work with a broad range of watermedia, pushing beyond realism to build images that have urgency and power. Readers are encouraged to take risks that will help them to abandon usual methods and embrace fresh ways of painting with watercolour, gouache, casein, acrylic, using collage, brushless methods, and many other techniques.
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Creative Landscape Painting by Edward H. Betts (1978) Hardcover
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Creative Landscape Painting
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From dust jacket notes: "Here is an innovative 'idea book' for every landscape painter who has mastered basic painting techniques and is now searching for ways to develop his creativity and his individual style. Edward Betts, one of America's most creative painters, presents 74 inventive, offbeat approaches to painting landscapes, exemplified by leading and realistic abstract artists. First the author encourages the reader to explore his own feelings about nature and identify those landscape subjects which move him deeply. Then Betts presents 50 imaginative ways to approach landscape painting - by experimenting with viewpoint, lighting, color, unusual types of subject matter, and painting processes. Among the stimulating landscape painting ideas he presents are low horizon, distortion of scale, intentional ambiguity, detailed foreground, framing with foreground elements, the long horizontal composition, the oval or circular format, white as a major area, distortion of scale, imagination and fantasy, multiple views of a single subject, geometry in landscape, and personal symbols....The color section begins with the author's discussion of color relationships, color as esthetic organization and expression, color in composition, and the difference between descriptive and nondescriptive color. He then analyses color as light and decoration, color unity and control, color schemes and various color systems, and lists numerous suggested palettes. In the gallery of color plates, Betts presents 24 more fresh and provocative approaches by well-known artists. Analyzing these powerful paintings, Betts explroes how to use color as mood, low and high color contrast, single dominant color, muted color, color mosaic, color as space, color glazes, and color shock...." 152 pages, 8.25 x 11 inches, 24 pages of color, 50 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index.
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Creative Seascape Painting
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Dust jacket notes: "The sea has been a source of pleasure and inspiration for centuries. Constantly changing the imagination of artists as diverse as Hokusai and Marin. Here, in this innovative "idea book", a sequel to the author's popular Creative Landscape Painting, Edward Betts offers more than 50 different approaches to painting the sea. Because the idea is to free the artist of preconceived notions of how the sea should be painted, the painting styles discussed range from photographic realism to various degrees of abstraction (formal, lyrical, expressive, semiabstraction, minimalism), and the paintings shown are composed in a variety of media (oil, acrylic, watercolor, mixed media)....After a brief introduction, Betts launches into a discussion of 50 imaginative ways to paint marine subjects, explaining how to experiment with viewpoints, lighting, textures, patterns, and styles to add new vitality to your work. Each idea is presented in three parts: the concept is thoroughly explained, suggestions are given on how to incorporate it into your own art, and an example of its application the painting of a leading contemporary artist is shown. The caption accompanying each example contains Betts' usual penetrating, perceptive analysis of the artist's primary intent and how it has been communicated in painting. A color gallery containing 32 additional paintings follows, adding yet another dimension to this seascape painting idea book. Finally, the book concludes with a section entitled "Studio Notes," which offers several pages of practical tips on painting the sea. Creative Seascape Painting will stimulate brand new ways of thinking. It is a book to be enjoyed by professional artists, intermediate and advanced students, and dedicated amateurs - in short, by all artists searching for fresh ways to extend and improve their art. 160 pages. 8.25 x 11 inches, 32 color pages, 50 black-and-white illustrations, suggested reading, Index."
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Edward Betts
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Edward Betts, American artist. Member National Academy of Design (2d Altman prize 1954, Benjamin Altman prize 1957, 59, 66), American Water Color Society (Silver medal of honor 1953, 59, Remmey award 1966, Cooper award 1977), Art Students League, Ogunquit Art Association (past president), National Academy Design, American Watercolor Society, Century Association New York City.
Education
Bachelor, Yale University, 1942; Master of Fine Arts, University of Illinois, 1952.
Career
From instructor to professor art, University of Illinois, 1949-1984; professor emeritus, University of Illinois, since 1984; associate, Center for Advanced Study, 1968-1969.
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Creative Landscape Painting
(From dust jacket notes: "Here is an innovative 'idea book...)
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Master Class in Watermedia: Techniques in Traditional and Experimental Painting
(Using the author's work as an inspiring point of departur...)
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Creative Seascape Painting
(Dust jacket notes: "The sea has been a source of pleasure...)
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Creative Landscape Painting by Edward H. Betts (1978) Hardcover
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- Masterclass in Watermedia
- Master Class in Watermedia: Techniques in Traditional and Experimental Painting
- Master Class in Watermedia: Techniques in Traditional and Experimental Painting by Betts, Edward (1993) Hardcover
- Creative Landscape Painting Hardcover - 1978
- Creative Seascape Painting by Edward Betts (1981-12-01)
- Creative Landscape Painting by Edward H. Betts (1978-11-05)
- Creative Landscape Painting by Edward H. Betts (1978-05-03)
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Creative Landscape Painting
Membership
Member National Academy of Design (2d Altman prize 1954, Benjamin Altman prize 1957, 59, 66), American Water Color Society (Silver medal of honor 1953, 59, Remmey award 1966, Cooper award 1977), Art Students League, Ogunquit Art Association (past president), National Academy Design, American Watercolor Society, Century Association New York City.
Connections
Married Jane Burke, June 2, 1949 (deceased 1984). Children: Peter, John, Wendy. Married Edis Hatch, 1986.
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March 17, 2008 (aged 87) -
Nationality
American
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Recipient 1st prize oil painting Brick Store Museum Exhibition, Kennebunk, Maine, 1949, Arts and Artists Mississippi Exhibition, Davenport, Iowa, 1950. Grumbacher award Allied Artists, 1950, Bronze medal of honor, 1956. Audubon Artists award, 1951, 72, Gold medal of honor, 1952. Pennell medal Philadelphia Water Color Club, 1953, award Portland Museum Summer Art Festival, 1957, Purchase award Hassam Fund Exhibition, 1966, Winsor and Newton award Georgia Water Color Society, 1979.Recipient 1st prize oil painting Brick Store Museum Exhibition, Kennebunk, Maine, 1949, Arts and Artists Mississippi Exhibition, Davenport, Iowa, 1950. Grumbacher award Allied Artists, 1950, Bronze medal of honor, 1956. Audubon Artists award, 1951, 72, Gold medal of honor, 1952.
Pennell medal Philadelphia Water Color Club, 1953, award Portland Museum Summer Art Festival, 1957, Purchase award Hassam Fund Exhibition, 1966, Winsor and Newton award Georgia Water Color Society, 1979.