Watercolour Painting: Step-by-stepThis is a practical and comprehensive guide for all watercolour enthusiasts, from the beginner to the experienced artist. Starting with advice on materials, colour and composition, it goes on to describe basic and more advanced techniques and the wonderful effects they can produce. Easy to follow step-by-step demonstrations show the reader how to paint skies, trees, water, buildings and flowers, and each section is accompanied by a selection of inspirational paintings by the seven featured artists, in a rich variety of styles. Originally published as 'Working with Watercolour', this book uses material from the 'Leisure Arts' series. |
Contents
Introduction | 6 |
Colour | 15 |
Composition and Perspective | 32 |
Copyright | |
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12 round brush aerial perspective alizarin crimson applied background brown madder alizarin brush to add brush to lay brush to paint Bryan Thatcher building burnt sienna burnt umber Cadmium red cadmium yellow centre Cerulean blue clear water clouds cobalt blue deep cobalt violet composition create dark detail Dilute distant dry-brush effect finished painting flat brush flat wash foliage foreground French ultramarine gamboge highlights Jackie Barrass landscape Leave to dry masking fluid Mix a wash mix of burnt Naples yellow need Paints neutral tint old brush overpainting painted wet-into-wet palette paper tissue Payne's gray permanent rose petals Prussian blue pthalo blue raw sienna Ray Campbell Smith reflections Richard Bolton rigger brush scene shadows shape sienna and Winsor sketch soft surface texture touch of burnt touch of light touch of Winsor ultramarine and light variegated wash viridian warm Wendy Tait wet-into-wet technique William Newton Winsor blue Winsor lemon Winsor violet yellow mix