Collins Learn to Paint
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Book 17
Hazel Soan, with her colourful and lively style of painting, offers an exciting and contemporary approach to working in watercolour, the most popular medium of all.
In Learn to Paint Vibrant Watercolours Hazel Soan provides plenty of helpful advice on how to use watercolour in a bold and lively way. She emphasizes the importance of using colour confidently, creating a strong composition, and evoking a powerful sense of atmosphere in your paintings.
The book includes tips on choosing painting materials, clear, practical advice on watercolour techniques and guidelines on using colour effectively to create atmosphere.
A range of popular subjects are covered, including landscapes, still life, flowers, and people, all supported by step-by-step demonstration paintings.
This is the latest addition to the Collins' best-selling Learn to Paint series, by popular artist Hazel Soan, focusing on one of the most important aspects of painting – how to portray light, atmosphere and mood in watercolour paintings.
All painters want to know how to portray light successfully to create dramatic effects, and this book will look at a number of ways in which this can be achieved.
The book shows specific watercolour techniques to create highlights, use colour to determine mood and atmosphere and how to explore the relationship between light and tone.
Hazel Soan is a very popular teacher and in this book she provides invaluable guidelines for beginners. With clear instructions, plenty of helpful llustrations and several step-by-step demonstration paintings, the book covers everything the beginner needs to know to paint successful light-filled watercolours.
