Illustrated with the author's own work, this guide is designed to help the novice watercolourist and to serve as a reference for the more experienced. It shows how to simplify the approach to watercolour and to improve one's painting skills. The author shows ways of employing watercolour's unique characteristics to enhance each composition. Her step-by-step demonstrations are accompanied by complete palette listings, and major points of development are indicated and explained. With constructive use of sketching, readers are encouraged to improve drawing and observation skills. There follow lessons in painting a wide variety of fruit and vegetables. Readers are also taught to express white effectively and how to interpret the light and colour of an open-air scene.
- ISBN10 0713478845
- ISBN13 9780713478846
- Publish Date 30 May 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 May 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pavilion Books
- Imprint Batsford Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 144
- Language English