Watercolour: A step-by-step guide for absolute beginners (Collins You Can Paint) (Collins You Can Paint S.)

by Alwyn Crawshaw (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $11.82

  Full of easy-to-follow exercises and demonstrations, this guide is part of a series that aims to give even the most hesitant of beginners the enthusiasm and confidence to start painting in watercolour. All the instruction is broken down into really easy step-by-step exercises to help you to practise and build up your knowledge and expertise of painting gradually. For example, you learn how to paint a tree in three easy stages, then a cloudy sky and finally how to paint a simple foreground, so that in the end you can paint a complete landscape. With simple exercises, Alwyn Crawshaw takes the reader by the hand and explains exactly how to paint all the separate features of a picture, one-by-one.

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $3.25

  You Can Paint Watercolour will give even the most hesitant of beginners the confidence to pick up a brush and start painting. Alwyn Crawshaw takes the reader through all the basic colour mixing and watercolour techniques, and with easy step-by-step exercises explains how to paint the separate elements of a picture one by one.
  First, learn how to paint simple still life subjects such as fruit, flowers and features of the landscape, like skies and trees. Then, with stage-by-stage demonstrations to show you how to combine these elements into a painting, it won't be long before you can produce watercolours to be proud of.