Learn everything you need to know to get started painting in watercolor.

"Painting with watercolors gives you endless opportunities to create the world you want. You choose whether to let the sun blaze or the rain pour, to move a maple tree here or make the trail wind over there, to subdue a hillside with quiet greens or make a forest glow with dazzling golds and reds. It's not only a matter of what to paint, but how to go about painting it. This book examines, one at a time, the three major elements of landscape painting:...

Join noted watercolorist Ted Kautzky as he shares his wisdom on painting the infinitely wonderful details of trees and landscapes. Beginning with the fundamentals of good composition, value arrangement, balance, rhythm, and basic brushstrokes, the book explores ways of painting such important landscape components as trees, roads, puddles, rain, plant life, and fog. Individual chapters are devoted to painting forests, and different types of trees are...

Painting animal using watercolor is easy, trust me and this book will help you, First of all I want to share something, when I was little, I can still remember the first time I used watercolor, I was so excited that at the end of the day all the colors in the watercolor case are wet and ruined, not knowing the basic and how to use it properly really can cause disaster and even make me frustrated, that time I began to question myself "Why some people...

Learn How to Paint Portraits of Children In Watercolor For the Absolute Beginner:Learning to Paint Watercolor is easy, and painting portraits using this medium is easier, if you know how and this book is all about it. So first of all I congratulate you for purchasing this e Book. What will you get from this e Book? Let me count the ways: First you will learn how to use your painting brush as if I'm watching you doing your brush strokes, just follow...

"Claudia Nice shows you how to turn ink and watercolors into the coarse-barked trunk of an oak, or the burnished smoothness of brass, or the verdant velvet of moss. Or any of many other things. She shows you how to use dots, fine lines, brushstrokes, black and white, colora mixture of mediums and techniquesto suggest: *glass *cast iron *adobe and brick *sunrise and sunset *driftwood *leaf textures *basketry *surf and ocean waves *enamelware *rainbows...

Packed full of tips for the aspiring watercolourist, its handy format makes it ideal for quick reference either in the studio or out in the field. Contents include: • Essential tips on all the basic watercolour techniques, plus helpful advice on sketching and drawing. • Guidelines on painting skies, backgrounds, foregrounds, the main subject, trees, details and shadows. • Clear and straightforward step-by-step instructions for painting a complete...

Fabulous Flowers - Celebrate Color by Ev Hales is an excuse to explore color almost without boundaries. Flowers have been part of our visual heritage for centuries and as such have always inspired the artist, whatever medium has been used. Discussion of pattern and how to use this to enable an artist to say little but communicate effectively is a skill you will use with any subject you enjoy. Discover how flowers can be presented as part of a landscape,...

An inspiring ebook based on instructional painting ideas and techniques for artists. Utilize the concept of painting less to say more when focusing on still water. Still water is a reflective surface offering the artist many possibilities for evocative and mood filled imagery. Explore the issues related to creating depth across a flat horizontal surface; edge control; tonal gradation and color. Soak up the tranquility and mystique that is inevitably...

An inspiring, practical book that encourages you to "Have A Go" and capture, in paint, any scene you see outdoors. Practical painting strategies and tactics simplify a range of subjects - from simple to complex. Watercolor is used because it is the most easily transportable, outdoor painting medium. From a watercolor pencil and water filled brush to a full painting kit discover ways to capture the essence of the day. How to maximize the use of different...