Watercolour: Foundation Course

Even if the last time you tried painting you used your fingers, this comprehensive foundation course will teach you everything you need to know about watercolors to nurture the artist within. You'll find advice for all the preliminaries from choosing paints and paper to creating a workspace and maintaining materials. At your own pace, progress from preliminary sketches and studies to putting brush to paper. Witness watercolor techniques in action, from washes to wet-on-wet to dry brushwork to spattering. Captioned, full color illustrations make it easy to achieve seemingly difficult effects and create lifelike reflections, foliage, clouds, and shadows. Even slips of the brush are no problem: with these hints on exploiting such happy accidents, it's possible to salvage your still life, landscape, or portrait, and produce a watercolor worthy of your living room wall.