Watercolor Basics

Author : Deb Watson
Publisher : Walter Foster Publishing
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781633227897

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Painting: Watercolor Basics by Deb Watson Pdf

Whether you’re a master painter or an absolute beginner, watercolor is the perfect partner for your painting pleasure—and Painting: Watercolor Basics teaches you everything you need to know to get started in the medium. From rendering light and shadow to creating realistic textures, discover how to bring dimension and depth to your paintings. Featuring the artwork of Deb Watson, this book includes a variety of easy-to-follow, step-by-step projects, including a landscape, still life, and portrait. With engaging, inspirational lessons and useful artist's tips, Watercolor Basics will help you master this beautiful and luminous medium. Designed for beginners, the How to Draw & Paint series offers an easy-to-follow guide that introduces artists to basic tools and materials and includes simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist. Painting: Watercolor Basics allows you to widen the scope of your artistic abilities, demonstrating how to begin with a basic sketch and then develop your painting step by step with special techniques that will bring your painting to life.

Author : Greg Albert,Rachel Rubin Wolf
Publisher : Northlight
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : PSU:000060314710

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Basic Watercolor Techniques by Greg Albert,Rachel Rubin Wolf Pdf

Intended for beginners, this book offers suggestions on equipment and techniques for creating different textures, and gives tips on how to actually see what is being painted.

Author : Charles Reid
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780593327845

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Watercolor Basics by Charles Reid Pdf

Problem Solved! Expert fixes for not-quite-right watercolors. As one of today's most sought-after workshop instructors, Charles Reid knows the most common stumbling blocks faced by artists and the best ways to overcome them. With expert advice on everything from drawing and design to fine-tuning figure and landscape paintings, Charles Reid's Watercolor Solutions will help you identify shortcomings in your paintings, fix recurring problems, and become a better watercolorist—no matter what your skill level. Inside, you'll find masterful insights from one of North Light's best-selling authors: • Advice for successful color mixing, tips to avoid overworking and other straightforward information you can take straight to your easel • 10 step-by-step demonstrations make the lessons easy to understand and implement • Student work with critiques that call out strengths, weaknesses and tips on how the paintings can be improved Whether your portraits feel contrived, your landscapes lack depth, or your colors look unnatural, this book holds the secrets to stronger, looser and livelier paintings.

Author : Phil Metzger
Publisher : North Light Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0891348808

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Watercolor Basics - Perspective Secrets by Phil Metzger Pdf

Create Space and Depth in your Watercolors! &break;&break;Psst! If you want to learn the secrets to creating depth and realism in your watercolor paintings, take a look in this book! You'll find easy tricks for fooling the eye into seeing your paintings in three dimensions - from the basic rules of linear perspective to size and space variations, overlapping, aerial perspective and other techniques. Everything's explained in simple language with step-by-step demonstrations showing how to apply the principles to a variety of subjects. With this clear and practical instruction, it's easier than you might think to put your paintings into perspective!

Author : Jenna Rainey
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780399579738

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Everyday Watercolor by Jenna Rainey Pdf

A contemporary paint-every-day watercolor guide that explores foundational strokes and patterns and then builds new skills upon the foundations over the course of 30 days to create finished pieces. This beautifully illustrated and inspiring guided watercolor-a-day book is perfect for beginning watercolor artists, artists who want to improve their watercolor skills, and visual creatives. From strokes to shapes, this book covers the basics and helps painters gain confidence in themselves along with inspiration to develop their own style over the course of 30 days. Featuring colorful contemporary art from Mon Voir design agency founder and Instagram trendsetter Jenna Rainey, this book's fresh perspective paints watercolor in a whole new light.

Author : Jack Reid
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781440321948

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Watercolor Basics - Let's Get Started by Jack Reid Pdf

"After 25 years of teaching thousands of novice watercolorists the simple methods contained in this book, I firmly believe that anyone willing to follow the directions and do the world cannot fail to achieve a successful picture. If I can do it, so can you." -Jack Reid In this beginner-friendly guide, Jack Reid will show you the hows of watercolor painting. He covers it all in clear, easy-to-understand terms - beginning with what tools and materials you should buy to get off to a good, affordable start. You'll find simple, step-by-step exercises to help you: • Control your brush with ease • Master the four basic watercolor techniques - the flat wash, the graded wash, the wet-in-wet and the dry-brush • Take the "Five Steps to a Painting" - step-by-step demonstration guide you from one color to five, to make your paintings "sing" with color • Use photography and photocopying to create paintings inspired by life Then put everything you've learned into action by following along with seven painting projects. Before you know it, you'll be creating your own beautiful watercolor paintings!

Author : Jenna Rainey
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780399582226

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Everyday Watercolor Flowers by Jenna Rainey Pdf

Author of Everyday Watercolor and Instagram darling Jenna Rainey presents a beautiful step-by-step guide to painting botanicals from lilies to daffodils in a wide variety of styles. Artist Jenna Rainey shares easy-to-follow ways to paint a wide range of botanicals, all in her fresh, modern style that appeals to the next generation of watercolor artists and creatives, from beginners to hobbyists. With gorgeously illustrated instructions for both loose and realistic watercolor depictions of more than 25 flowers, leaves, and plants, organized by form and shape, Everyday Watercolor Flowers is every nature-lover's answer to capturing that beauty on paper.

Author : Palmer
Publisher : Search Press Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781800930476

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Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner by Palmer Pdf

Author : Emma Block
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780762465859

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The Joy of Watercolor by Emma Block Pdf

Enjoy the meditative art of watercolor with simple supplies, forty colorful illustrated lessons, and easy step-by-step instructions! For a soothing boost of creativity and whimsy, try your hand at watercolor. With a few simple steps, anyone can discover their artistic side and achieve moments of peace and tranquility. Forty straightforward lessons promise fun and colorful results -- no pressure and no skill required. This simple painting medium produces colorful, modern paintings to adorn invitations, gifts, and walls. The forty lessons cover useful topics like: Painting on vacation Painting your pets Layering colors Mixing colors Painting flowers and plants The supplies are simple: a basic palette of watercolors, a selection of brushes, and nice thick paper will do the job. Your bright, whimsical art is guaranteed to bring color to any gray day. It's never too late to pick up a new hobby -- start painting your own beautiful cards and artwork today!

Author : Sharon Hinckley
Publisher : North Light Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0891348948

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Watercolor Basics - Painting Flowers by Sharon Hinckley Pdf

Why stop to just smell the flowers when you can paint them? The instruction in this book makes it fun and easy to create beautiful watercolor daises, hydrangeas, roses, lilies, poppies?all your favorite blooms! You'll find everything you need to get painting right away - from basic exercises in color choice and composition to techniques for painting leaves, background, arrangements and out door scenes. It's all explained in simple language with hands-on exercises, easy-to-follow demonstrations and step-by-step projects!

Author : Rachel Rubin Wolf
Publisher : Northlight
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Nature (Aesthetics)
ISBN : 0891348522

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Basic Nature Painting Techniques in Watercolor by Rachel Rubin Wolf Pdf

Twenty popular artists/teachers--among them, Zoltan Szabo, Skip Lawreence and Tom Hill--teach essential techniques for painting grass, earth, trees, wildflowers and other elements of nature's beauty. This unparalleled guide will help even the beginning artist paint successful outdoor scenes.

Author : Mary Whyte
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0823056600

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Watercolor for the Serious Beginner by Mary Whyte Pdf

Discusses materials, fundamentals, getting started, still life, landscape, and figures and portraits

Author : Catherine Anderson
Publisher : Northlight
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Watercolor painting
ISBN : 0891348778

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Basic Watercolor Answer Book by Catherine Anderson Pdf

Presented in an easy-to-reference question-and-answer format, the information in this guide offers clear solutions to basic watercolor dilemmas through illustrations, photographs and step-by-step demonstrations. New artists will also learn how to successfully deal with accidents and mistakes.

Author : Kenneth Hesse Jr
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781678179762

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Quick Start to Watercolor Landscapes, A Step-by-Step Guide plus Basics in Composition, Technique, and Color Theory by Kenneth Hesse Jr Pdf

Resource for beginning watercolor painters that includes lessons, art composition, method, and color theory. Contains practice exercises to develop painting method and technique before going on to step-by-step demonstrations for three paintings.

Author : Sarah Simon
Publisher : Blue Star Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781950968268

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Watercolor Workbook by Sarah Simon Pdf

Build your watercolor skills with confidence with these 25 beautiful and beginner-friendly new projects on premium watercolor paper! This easy-to-use watercolor workbook is filled with unique and beautiful flower and nature sketches that are ready for you to watercolor--no drawing skills required! Each page is specially designed with simple step-by-step instructions so you can easily and confidently paint each project and create artwork that matches the quality of the author's example. Watercolor Workbook features: An introduction to fundamental watercolor techniques 25 projects on thick, 200 gsm premium watercolor art paper—no color bleed-through! Easy-to-follow instructions that can be completed in 30 minutes or less Beautiful floral and plant artwork, including: wild roses, poppies, sunflowers, buttercups, dandelions, and more Easy-to-follow instructions, including suggested paint and paintbrush materials, so you can start painting today Artist and author Sarah Simon, a.k.a. @themintgardener, has taught thousands of people how to paint with watercolor. Her first book Modern Watercolor Botanicals provides everything you need to know about the art of watercolor and, now in this new workbook, Simon offers 25 watercolor projects that you can sit down and enjoy painting today!