Watercolors in a Weekend - Flowers

Author: Jill Bays
Publisher: David & Charles
ISBN: 9780715316375
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This title leads readers through a series of watercolour technique exercises designed to provide basic grounding in the skills needed for painting flowers in watercolours. Projects include painting a single flower, a close-up outdoors, wild flowers in the landscape and more.

Complete Book Of Watercolors In A Weekend

Author: Hazel Harrison
Publisher: David & Charles
ISBN: 9780715328828
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
This fun guide's ?weekend? formula allows eager beginners to build skills gradually and produce an attractive, frameable painting in only a weekend. The materials and basic technique sections provide a fast grounding in the skills required for painting watercolor landscapes, allowing budding artists to quickly move on to nine short landscape-painting courses that take them through practice exercises on Saturday, all the way to a finished painting on Sunday.

Watercolours in a Weekend

Author: Frank Halliday
Publisher: Northlight
ISBN: 9780715313923
Category : Landscape painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Teaches anyone the essential skills needed to paint a complete watercolor picture in a single weekend.

Charles Evans' Watercolours in a Weekend

Author: Charles Evans
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780715324677
Category : Watercolor painting
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
This guide shows beginners how to paint a complete watercolour painting in just one weekend. Each course starts with practice exercises to be completed on the Saturday and readers are then ready to complete the full watercolour painting on the Sunday.

Essence of Watercolour

Author: Hazel Soan
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 1849944601
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A paperback reissue Hazel Soan's classic practical art book. Hazel Soan is a well-known and popular artist and an enthusiastic and inspirational teacher. In The Essence of Watercolour Hazel shows how wonderfully versatile and beguiling the medium of watercolour is and how to get the most out of it. Hazel stresses how important it is to understand the characteristics of the medium in order to exploit it to the full. She encourages the reader to explore the properties of watercolour and to be unafraid of strength of colour and brushstroke. Hazel shows through demonstration and projects that tone is king in watercolour and illustrates how to paint light with the use of shade. Armed with this understanding she demonstrates that watercolour is not such an unforgiving medium after all: accidents and mistakes can be disguised, overridden and corrected. The Essence of Watercolour is a culmination of many years of Hazel's teaching and demonstrating, in which she offers inspirational insights into the secrets of watercolour painting and encourages artists to take their art to the next level.

Learn Watercolour Quickly

Author: Hazel Soan
Publisher: Batsford Books
ISBN: 1849941971
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan has distilled her art teaching into the things that matter most and can be digested in a short period of time – in just one afternoon you can start painting. Learning to paint is one of the life-long aspirations of many of us, and these techniques can be picked up faster than you think. Hazel Soan's concise book, filled with easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step exercises, is written in an accessible way for those completely new to painting. Chapters include: Getting Started (the materials you will need and those you can ignore in the art shop); Choice of Colours; Mixing Colours; What's the Subject?; What Surfaces to Paint on; Basic Painting Techniques; Brushstrokes and Composition (with details on how to design paintings with horizon, focus and balance, a hint of perspective and the light and shade of a subject). Packed with illustrations for guidance, this is the most comprehensive guide to learning watercolour very quickly.

Landscapes

Author: Frank Halliday
Publisher: David & Charles
ISBN: 9780715315385
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Beginners recognize that they need to acquire basic painting skills - but at the same time they are eager to produce a finished painting that they can hang on their walls. This popular 'weekend' formula allows them to do just that - to build skills gradually and produce an attractive, frameable painting in a limited amount of time. The author starts by introducing the materials required for painting watercolour landscapes, then leads readers through a series of initial techniques designed to provide a basic grounding in the skills required for this subject area. This instruction is followed by eight short courses for painting a range of popular landscape subjects: skies and clouds; water; moutains and lakes; trees and foliage; buildings and textures; reflections in the landscape; winter landscapes; summer landscapes. Each course starts with practice exercises to be completed on the Saturday - readers are then ready to complete the full watercolour painting on the Sunday. Clear instructions accompany step-by-step photographs throughout, and technical information is given in special feature boxes.

John Singer Sargent Watercolors

Author: John Singer Sargent
Publisher: Mfa Publications
ISBN: 9780878467914
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description
John Singer Sargents approach to watercolour was unconventional. Disregarding late-nineteenth-century aesthetic standards that called for carefully delineated and composed landscapes filled with transparent washes, his confidently bold, dense strokes and loosely defined forms startled critics and fellow practitioners alike. One reviewer in England, where Sargent spent much of his adult life, called his work swagger watercolours. For Sargent, however, the watercolours were not so much about swagger as about a new way of thinking. In watercolour as opposed to oils his vision became more personal and his works more interconnected. Presenting nearly 100 works of art, this book is the first major publication of Sargents watercolours in twenty years. Each chapter highlights a different subject or theme that attracted the artists attention during his travels through Europe and the Middle East: sunlight on stone, figures reclining on grass, patterns of light and shadow. Insightful essays by the worlds leading experts enhance this book and introduce readers to the full sweep of Sargents accomplishments in the medium, in works that delight the eye as well as challenge our understanding of this prodigiously gifted artist.

Quick & Clever Watercolours

Author: Charles Evans
Publisher: David and Charles
ISBN: 144635475X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
The British artist and TV personality shows you how to have fun with watercolours by scribbling away, using big brushes, and slapping on paint. Accomplished artist, Charles Evans, will have you painting in no time with these cleverly-constructed art projects that can each be completed in a matter of minutes. Packed with simple techniques and top tips that will ensure successful results every time, Charles’ easy-to-follow instruction will help improve your painting skills at once. Quick & Clever Watercolours . . . Helps you learn professional hints and tricks about using watercolours and watercolour pencils which offer extra flexibility and convenience Includes varied art projects for outdoors and indoors, ranging from simple landscapes to more complex compositions, from pets to still lives Reveals inspirational pages from Charles’ own sketchbooks that clearly demonstrate the immediacy of this medium

Jean Haines' Atmospheric Watercolours

Author: Jean Haines
Publisher: Search Press Limited
ISBN: 1781263167
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Jean Haines' enthusiasm for watercolours burst through every page of this inspirational book that will guide you, step by step, to creating beautiful and unique paintings of your own, whatever your ability. Accomplished artist Jean Haines shares her passion for watercolours in this wonderfully practical book. Known for her exciting techniques and love of colour, Jean takes you on an inspirational painting journey on which you'll encounter, amongst other things, magical watercolour flow, glorious washes, sunbursts, and a magnificent 'hotting it up' finale. With her simple exercises, clear advice and easy-to-follow projects, Jean pushes the boundaries and will alter the way you think about watercolours and painting for ever. With a selection of popular subjects, including animals, landscapes, buildings, flowers and people, there is something for everyone here, whatever their artistic ability.