Full Description
Combining watercolour methods and techniques with ideas for exercising new-found skills and step-by-step demonstrations, this book is aimed at the beginner or improving watercolourist. The topics covered include choosing materials, composition and perspective, and colour and tone, and the author deals comprehensively with watercolour washes and shows how striking effects can be achieved. Each chapter ends with a stage-by-stage demonstration illustrating the techniques just learned.
Contents
Materials and their uses; colour - theory and practice; putting it into perspective; composition and balance; developing subjects; all about washes; more watercolour techniques; mist and mystery; painting in the open.