Step by Step Art School - Watercolour
Step by Step Art School : Watercolour is the perfect book for beginner and enthusiast alike, providing all you need to know to paint in watercolour.
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Divided into easy-to-follow sections including:
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A comprehensive guide to materials including advice on what to buy.
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Basic techniques and concepts, instructive pictures and simple explanations.
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Carefully graded step-by-step projects from simple use of single colour, to wet-in-wet washes and more ambitious figures and landscapes, all aimed at producing an accomplished and attractive finished picture.
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Over three hundred specially commissioned full-colour photographs.
(Backcover of book – 1989 Hamlyn impression) |
Mascot Bear reads Step by Step Watercolour by Patricia Monahan - Wet on Dry... house by the shore... |
Contents : |
Introduction |
Colour
Choosing a subject
Planning the picture
Starting to paint |
Equipment
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Supports / Paper
Paper texture
Paints
Brushes
Handling watercolour
Stretching watercolour paper |
Washes - techniques
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Laying a flat wash
Wet-in-Wet
Wet-on-Dry
Painting without white paint
Building up tones by overlaying washes
Creating tone by diluting paint
Laying a graded wash |
Washes – Step by Step |
Rain Clouds - Monochrome
Rain Clouds - Monochrome with wash
The Beach – Graded wash |
Landscape and seascape |
Landscape
Architecture
Seascape |
Further techniques
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Lifting colour
Looking at edges
Brush marks
Dry brush
Exploring paper texture |
Further techniques – Step by Step |
Country Track - Dry brush
Mill in Winter - Using the white of the paper
Child with Panda - Mixing flesh tones
House by the Shore - Wet on Dry details |
Masking - techniques
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Masking fluid
Wax resist
Masking with paper |
Masking – Step by Step |
Summer fields - Masking fluid with pen
Sailing in the Bay - Masking details
Town Gate - Linear perspective
Anemones - Masking large areas |
| Approaches - techniques |
Texture |
| Approaches – Step by Step |
On the Beach - Wet-on-Dry
Boats Low Tide - Spattering
Still Life Shells - Wax resist
Rocky Headland - Wax Resist
Daffodils - Wet-in-Wet
Buttercups in a Blue Vase - Cutting back with the background |
Glossary |
(Source 1989 Hamlyn impression) |
