This easy, practical reference guide to watercolour painting combines top tips, handy hints and useful tricks-of-the-trade for artists of all abilities.
From best-selling artist Matthew Palmer, this indispensable reference book is like having an artist on your shoulder to help with the tricky bits! Designed to aid your painting whilst painting either indoors or out, the small format and hard cover make it easy to transport and to store with the rest of your painting kit. It includes:
- Sketching tips and mini demos
- Essential colour mixes for different subjects shadows, trees, skies and more all explained in paint and water proportions for simple mixing
- Troubleshooting tips for correcting mistakes
- Essential kit list for painting outdoors.
Handy colour swatches allow you to hold the book up to the object you’re painting, match the colour and create the right mix easily. The book includes a pull-out viewfinder and composition guide, with instructions on how to use it to create the best composition from the scene in front of you.
Table of Contents
Getting started
Skies and light
Trees and flowers
Hills and mountains
Water
Life in the landscape
Drawing and sketching
Troubleshooting
Watercolour secrets
Index
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About Matthew Palmer
Matthew Palmer is a renowned demonstrator of watercolour painting, and his classes are particularly popular with beginners. He has been painting professionally for over 20 years and specializes in landscapes, still life and animals. He has his own studio at his home in Derbyshire, UK and teaches hundreds of people each week, as well as running watercolour workshops and holidays. He has many personal exhibitions, participates in several art shows and appears regularly on television as well as on his own internet-based art show at www.watercolour.tv
