watercolor painting

Contains step-by-step demonstrations that show how to paint various elements of waterscapes in watercolor, and includes information on materials, composition, color, technique, and other considerations.

Students explore the materials and properties of watercolor through a series of demonstrations and examples of watercolor paintings. These include transparent and opaque watercolor, pigments, brushes, papers, washes, glazes, and wet-in-wet techniques. The demonstrations use student watercolors and papers amd provide examples for classroom painting activities. A video Watercolor: Special Techniques is also available and complements this program.

This program expands on the concepts presented in Watercolor: Materials and Basic Techniques. These concepts and techniques ae shown through a series of demonstrations to show students how to use drybrush to create textures, glazes to reinforce colors, and combining different techniques. Also, experimental techniques with "Non-painting" tools and materials are shown. Examples of finished paintings reinforce the concepts presented.

Presents reproductions of 140 watercolor paintings by various artists, and includes comments from each painter on discoveries they made about technique, the creative process, and themselves while painting them.

Reviews the principles of color, especially as they apply to watercolor painting, and includes hands-on exercises, demonstrations, and nineteen step-by-step projects.

Presents advice on watercolor from over seventeen successful artists, featuring lessons in materials and preparation, color, basic painting techniques, texture and special effects, collaging, artistic principles, perspective, landscape and figure painting, and flowers, with step-by-step demonstrations, and examples of finished work.

Profiles the watercolor paintings of Edward Hopper.