This popular book provides all the information you need to get started
in watercolour painting. Full of clear, simple advice and more than 70
step-by-step demonstrations, Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner will
teach even the least confident of beginners the skills and techniques
needed to start painting.
In this easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide, three professional artists
explain all the basic watercolour techniques.
Top TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw demonstrates the basic techniques including
brushstrokes, colour mixing and depicting distance and foreground to get
you started in watercolour.
Lecturer and Artist Sharon Finmark explains how you can paint realistic
figures, covering scale and proportion, mixing convincing skin colours
and portraying movement and light effectively.
Artist and teacher Trevor Waugh demonstrates techniques for painting
animals - domestic, farmyard and wild. Starting with simple animal
shapes, Trevor takes you through the rudiments of 3D shapes, tone and
colour and the tricks of using foreshortening in your work.