Join Linda Kemp as she opens the pages to her book Simplifying Design and Color for Artists -- Positive Results Using Negative Painting Techniques. We take audience questions throughout, so you can learn from those as well!
About: Linda Kemp's internationally recognized painting concepts are the focus of her bestselling book and DVD, Watercolor -- Painting Outside the Lines -- A Positive Approach to Negative Painting. Her second book, Simplifying Design and Color for Artists will be released in November 2013 along with three accompanying instructional DVDs. She is a contributing artist/writer in six additional books and has been featured in TV, internet forums and in numerous art publications such as International Artist, American Artist and Palette Magazine.
Linda is an elected member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, The Ontario Society of Artists and The Society of Canadian Artists. This artist is profiled in Canadian Who's Who, Who's Who of Canadian Women, The Dictionary of International Biography, The 20th Anniversary Edition of Trivial Pursuit and 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century. Her award winning paintings are in private, public, and corporate collections around the world, including The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, U.K. and the private collection of HRH The Prince of Wales.
She was the recipient of the 2005 Woman of Distinction Award for Arts and Culture and in 2008 received the AJ Casson Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Watercolour, the top award of The Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour National Juried Exhibition.
A full time artist, she frequently instructs and lectures at national symposiums and workshops throughout Canada, The United States, The United Kingdom and France.
Building on a love of watercolor, Linda enthusiastically embraces a new romance with acrylic on canvas and panel. Her favorite subject matter includes close-ups of nature's patterns and the landscape.