From the blooms of summer to the berries of winter, well-known watercolor artist Ann Blockley shows the experienced painter how to push the boundaries of watercolor using both traditional and unconventional techniques and concepts. She’ll demonstrate how the use of collage materials such as glitter, sequins, salt, and gold paint can create amazing textures and bring flowers and foliage of every season to life. With this practical yet inspirational book as a guide, your watercolors will surely blossom.

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Watercolor conjures up images of pastel hues and faint lines—but not in this book! Leading watercolor artist Michelle Scragg demonstrates how this popular medium can produce bold, exciting hues that can effectively translate into designs for fabric, furnishings, illustrations, and more. Michelle covers everything you need to know to create strong watercolors that have potential for design application: how to select and organize colors; turn sketchbook work into fabric design; and interpret a piece of art (from feeling and response to observation and imagination). Once you reach the final chapter, “Studio Practice,” you’ll be ready to apply what you have learned and discover your own vibrant creativity. Michelle’s stunning semi-abstract work is sprinkled throughout for inspiration.

 


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Geoff Kersey shares his mastery of watercolour techniques in this detailed and fascinating guide to painting skies in landscapes. Beginning with invaluable advice on sketching, using photographs, colour and mastering sky painting techniques, he goes on to demonstrate six beautiful paintings with remarkable skies. Learn how to paint a clear winter sky over a crisp snowscene, a sky reflected in water, a stormy sky, a sunset in Venice and more. Both beginners to watercolour and experienced painters will benefit from this essential guide to painting skies.

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David Bellamy is perhaps best known for his watercolor portraits of exotic landscapes, and in this instructional handbook he shares the secrets behind some of his finest works. Both a practical and an inspirational guide to painting mountains, deserts, jungle, gorges, and other wilderness areas, many tips and techniques for watercolor painting are provided along with hints for capturing the right mood and light. Guidelines are also offered for armchair artists who enjoy painting wilder landscapes but who don’t want to or cannot trek into the wilderness.


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Have you ever been amazed by watercolor paintings that seem to spring to life before your eyes? Would you love to be able to paint with watercolors? Now, you can. Watercolor Painting For Dummies shows you the fun and easy way to create breathtaking paintings so beautiful you won’t believe you made them yourself.

This friendly, guide gives you hands-on instruction and easy-to-follow, step-by-step exercises to help you master the basics. Filled with full-color projects and sample paintings, it shows you how to work with color and texture, practice composition, and make smooth changes. You’ll find out how to select the best tools, materials, and supplies, practice basic brush strokes, and use the three best common techniques: flat wash, graded wash, and rough texture. Discover how to:

  • Select the right brushes, pigments, and paper
  • Mix colors and work with white
  • Create backgrounds and foregrounds
  • Transfer your drawings to watercolor
  • Avoid common watercolor mistakes
  • Experiment with texture using salt, sponges, plastic wrap, and more
  • Find your way around the color wheel
  • Practice the principles of design
  • Plan compositions using thumbnails
  • Work with one-point, two-point, and three-point perspective
  • Paint fabrics, shiny surfaces, and organic textures
  • Paint landscapes, seascapes, animals and more

Complete with strategies for improving your painting immediately and marketing and selling your work, Watercolor Painting For Dummies, is the resource you need to make your creative dreams come true.

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William Newton provides an inspirational and practical guide to painting beautiful watercolours and shows how to capture the exciting qualities of this wonderful medium. Using over 60 step-by-step photographs he illustrates all the basic techniques, explaining how to create transparent washes, luminous colours, light, shade and atmosphere. The book takes you through all the stages of painting a picture, from simple brush strokes to final details. Whatever your skill level you will be able to develop your own style using the demonstrations and exercises featured in these pages.


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Internationally renowned painter Annette Kane reveals her secrets for creating bright, vibrant watercolors: special methods of mixing paints; brushstrokes that maximize the power of a composition; and fresh combinations with ink, acrylic, and gouache. She covers each move toward boldness with start-to-finish demonstrations, from still lifes and landscapes to sun and shadow studies.

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Clear instructions and step-by-step images illustrate the methods for painting rustic barn scenes in this informative study. Spotlighting five vivid demonstrations and accompanied by helpful pull-out tracings, aspiring artists will enjoy mastering the medium of watercolor without relying on advanced drawing skills. Encouraging and jargon-free, guidance is offered for transferring each image to watercolor paper and recreating respective landscapes. A detailed section for necessary materials is included, along with a bonus tracing for inspiration.


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Studying the elegance and romance of Venetian architecture has long been the inspiration of thousands of painters for hundreds of years, and the scenes in this workbook pay tribute to this longstanding tradition. With projects that include Andrea Palladio’s celebrated Renaissance church on the island of St. George replete with passing gondolas, the authoritative grandeur of the Gallerie dell’Accademia, and a true icon of Venetian 16th-century design, the Ponte di Rialto, each of the five projects captures the light, texture, and history of this birthplace of Western culture. Each scene is accompanied by tracing papers that allow beginning painters without advanced drawing skills an easy way to transfer a balanced layout to the watercolor surface.


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Sharing techniques in a practical and inspirational way, this manual shows how best to paint cats, dogs, horses, rabbits, squirrels and more. It is full of quick sketches, step-by-step demonstrations and inspiring paintings and is a wonderful guide for anyone who loves animals and wants to master the art of painting them in watercolor.


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