Watercolor Essentials
Watercolor Essentials

Author: Birgit O'Connor

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-03-26

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1600610943

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Everything you need to know to make magic with watercolor! Features 80+ lessons, exercises and demonstrations, including live instruction on the enclosed DVD Watercolor moves like no other medium. Just add water, and the pigment takes on a life of its own. This book makes learning to paint equally dynamic, with page after page of step-by-step demonstrations, plus more than 40 lessons on the companion DVD. Get off to a happy start with basics such as laying a wash, applying a glaze and keeping whites white. Expand your skills and discover new ways to express yourself with advanced techniques, including special effects using salt, rubber cement and foil. From selecting and caring for your brushes to secrets for painting big, bold, beautiful shadows, Watercolor Essentials contains everything you need to paint with confidence. • 33 exercises, from foundational skills to advanced techniques for painting clouds, rock textures, moonlit water and more • 7 start-to-finish demonstrations take you through the process of painting a variety of subjects, including atmospheric landscapes, waterscapes and flowers • 70-minute DVD puts it all into action, so you can see how the paint is applied and reacts on the paper

Watercolor in Motion
Watercolor in Motion

Author: Birgit Oconnor

Publisher: North Light Books

Published: 2008-03-11

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781581808834

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It's the interplay between water and paint that makes this medium so exciting. It's no wonder, then, that wet-into-wet is one of the most popular methods for painting in watercolor. This unique book/DVD workshop shows you how to "go with the flow," moving watercolor across the page to create gorgeous paintings. Covers everything from selecting the best papers, paints and brushes, to achieving intense color passages, the illusion of depth and lively shadows. 10 exercises and 15 step-by-step demonstrations illustrate important lessons on shapes, complementary colors, masking fluid, glazing and more. Techniques are illustrated with Birgit O'Connor's bold and beautiful flowers, but are applicable to any subject. DVD shows key techniques in action - blending colors, creating hard and soft edges, and painting water drops - as well as troubleshooting common problems with washes. Watercolor has a reputation for being unpredictable. But the secret to success, as you'll learn here, is using the right amount of water, which lets you have more control ... and fun!

Everyday Watercolor
Everyday Watercolor

Author: Jenna Rainey

Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0399579737

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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.

Watercolor Success!
Watercolor Success!

Author: Chuck Long

Publisher: North Light Books

Published: 2005-05-16

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781581805536

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Make Every Painting a Success! A must-have for any novice watercolorist! This all-purpose guide is filed with classic lessons that cover all the material you need to get started in watercolor. This is simple yet imperative watercolor at its best - no frills or tricks. Your paintings will look better and you'll enjoy your painting time more when you follow Chuck Long's tried-and-true advice. With Chuck Long's experience and friendly teaching style, you'll soon make every watercolor you paint a success! Inside you'll find: The nuts and bolts of watercolor painting presented with a friendly voice so you can develop a strong foundation while having fun Over 200 illustrations that lead you through the basic principles and techniques of watercolor and foster your growth as an artist 11 demonstrations that encourage and challenge you to develop and hone your skills A variety of subjects, including boats, shore scenes, architecture, foliage and wooded landscapes, mountains, lakes and lighthouses

Landscape Painting Essentials with Johannes Vloothuis
Landscape Painting Essentials with Johannes Vloothuis

Author: Johannes Vloothuis

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2015-04-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 144033627X

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Secrets to Painting Beautiful Landscapes Painting the landscape can be fun and rewarding--if you make the right decisions as you paint. After all, it is the artist's greatest challenge to somehow capture a sense of it all--the grandness, the majesty, the splendor of nature--with just a few strokes of paint on a canvas. Popular art instructor Johannes Vloothuis makes the process a whole lot easier with the essential techniques, key concepts and expert advice he shares in this book. • Learn straightforward strategies to make your paintings more interesting and dramatic, such as simplifying the foreground, composing with abstract shapes and harmonizing colors. • Discover speci?c techniques for painting landscape elements including mountains, water, foliage, snow and more. • 9 step-by-step demonstrations walk you through all the techniques necessary to create successful landscape paintings. Landscape Painting Essentials is packed with practical information. You'll make the critical shift from painting what you see to painting as an artist sees. You'll learn to strategically edit shapes, rearrange elements and enhance color. You'll gain a better understanding of what to include in your painting, what to change and what to leave out. Most importantly, you'll gain the skills necessary to turn nature's bounty of inspiration into original, stunning landscape paintings.

The Ultimate Mixing Palette: a World of Colours
The Ultimate Mixing Palette: a World of Colours

Author: Jane Blundell

Publisher:

Published: 2015-04-26

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781320762601

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PDF - This could be the most useful watercolour reference book you will ever find. This book has been designed for use by anyone with an interest in watercolour, whether beginner or very experienced artist. It contains hand-painted mixing charts created using a palette of only fifteen carefully chosen colours. Every possible 2-colour mix is shown, along with the most useful 3-colour mixes. The charts have been professionally photographed and colour-matched to be as true to life as possible. Each page is rich with notes about the various colour mixes and their suggested uses in paintings. This is a private PDF listing. Please do not share.

Watercolor Basics - Painting Flowers
Watercolor Basics - Painting Flowers

Author: Sharon Hinckley

Publisher: North Light Books

Published: 1999-07-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780891348948

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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!

Watercolour Toolbox
Watercolour Toolbox

Author: Karen Richardson

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781460219423

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"Watercolour Toolbox focuses on simple solutions that anyone can learn, illustrated with step-by-step demonstrations for creating realistic stones, flowers, landscapes, and buildings"--Page 4 of cover.

Watercolor Textures for Artists
Watercolor Textures for Artists

Author: Ana Victoria Calderón

Publisher:

Published: 2024-03-12

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 0760383405

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From popular artist, author, and online art instructor Ana Victoria Calderón, Watercolor Textures for Artists teaches how to paint simple watercolor textures and use them to create beautiful artworks that help cultivate relaxation and mindfulness.

Watercolor Tricks & Techniques
Watercolor Tricks & Techniques

Author: Cathy Johnson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-01-11

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 144030999X

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Add life, color, texture and individuality to your work! If you're ready to go beyond the basics, and see what watercolor can really do, this is the book for you! Inside, a wealth of "creative departures" will take you out of your comfort zone, making the difference between pigment on paper and original, expressive works of art. Updated and better than ever, this edition of Watercolor Tricks & Techniques features: • 30+ new watercolor materials and applications along with fresh insights on many tried-and-true techniques • 15 step-by-step demonstrations showing techniques in action for beautiful finished paintings • 3 possibility-packed sections–Liquid Aids, Dry Helpers and Indispensable Tools–exploring the possibilities of powdered pigments, granulating mediums, liquid mask, Yupo paper and much more Whether you're an advanced beginner ready to add a little zing to your repertoire or a seasoned painter looking to push your watercolor boundaries, this book will make the journey as exciting as the final destination.