Description
Condition
VERY GOOD: The spirals on this book are enclosed in the book’s cover. There is slight bending of the cover at the top and bottom of the spiral spine. The book’s covers and pages are in very good condition, showing only slight signs of wear.
NOTE: This book was published in the UK and contains British spellings.
Product Details
“Each project is brought to life with clearly explained text and color photographs allowing the reader to create a stunning painting. Learn how to capture riverside reflections and create sensitive portraits, how to place the horizon, and how to compose a beautiful snow scene.
- Over 70 step-by-step projects, practical hints, tips and techniques that will enable any aspiring artits to create perfect paintings.
- Includes the fundamental aspects of color, composition, brushstroke, and depth.
- Illustrated with more than 1000 color photographs, examples of classic paintings, and packed with handy tips.”
Brief Contents
- Equipment and Techniques: Getting started with choosing the correct easel, paper and brushes, keeping a sketchbook, making washes, basic composition and mixing colours.
- Watercolour Landscapes: How to capture magnificent landscapes with projects ranging from holiday vistas to gritty cityscapes to your own back garden.
- Watercolour Still Lifes and Portraits: Try out different projects from everyday scenes to painting fruit, leaves and flowers, and from group portraits to solo studies.
- Watercolour Interiors: Working with watercolours to paint interiors as varied as a sunlit room in your home, a sombre church, a boatyard or a railway station.
- Gouache and Mixed Media: From creating landscapes, portraits, interiors and still lifes in gouache to hand-tinting photographs and using pencils, crayons and even glue.
- Glossary