pick up the skills, put on the paint, hang up your art
Freeborn, Wil
2017
"Treat the book as an in-depth class on this medium. [watercolor] With each lesson, you'll be privy to a new watercolor technique or subject. Readers will move through the book subject by subject, course by course, painting all along the way. By the time you reach the end, you'll have fifty paintings showcasing your steady progress."--Amazon.com.
Presents a tutorial, with reusable tracings, step-by-step photographs, and instructions, for creating watercolor paintings, covering various elements of a landscape, composition, and skills to help a learner gain confidence.
A step-by-step guide to using watercolors to paint flowers that includes instructions for a variety of techniques, information on paints and brushes, and reusable traceable patterns.
"Layering and bleeding watercolors together can lead to . . . works of art. This . . . guide to watercolors is . . . for young artists who want to try their hand at this . . . art form. They'll learn the fundamentals of painting with watercolors as they complete . . . projects"--Provided by publisher.
Presents a practical guide that teaches the fundamentals of watercolor painting and demonstrates basic color concepts and techniques, landscapes, flowers, and still life, as well as figures and scenes.
Contains color reproductions of over 120 watercolor paintings, and offers comments by the artists on the techniques they use to creature texture in their works.
