Learn Watercolor Painting |
| Name of book: | Watercolor Made Easy |
| Author: | Herb Olson |
| Author bio: | The author is a highly acclaimed artist. |
| Blurb: | Awesome resource for beginning watercolor artists. Full of full color illustrations. |
| Price: | $37.00 |
| Book Website: | Get Ebook Now |
| Description: |
- "Watercolor Made Easy" is the quickest and easiest way to learn to paint with watercolors. Inside this magnificent work you'll get step-by-step instruction on how to creating vibrant and fresh watercolor paintings. You’ll also find pages and pages of detailed illustrations that clearly demonstrate these "secret" watercolor techniques. You’ll find that this highly informative guide has absolutely everything you’ll need to not only get started, but to be well on your way to creating glorious original watercolors.
- The work is divided up into 16 comprehensive sections:
Section 1: Materials
-What you need to know about choosing paper
-How to choose the essential elements of your artist's toolbox - you can even find some of these things laying around the house
-The one common household item that will show you how your finished painting will look on the wall
Section 2: Palette
-How to organize your palette
-How to avoid the biggest mistake beginners make
Section 3: Composition
-How to establish a horizon line
-How to create your center of interest
-Using abstractions to pull your picture together
Section 4: Figure
-The importance of thumbnail sketches
-The secret to the six-stroke figure
-Composition and placement
Section 5: Color
-How to divide pigments for the best results
-Determining the emotional impact of color
-Using color to suggest movement
-The correct way to add reflections
Section 6: Special Effects
-Using action to paint convincing waterfalls
-The secrets to fog, rain and reflections
-How to paint shadows, intense light, haze and smoke
-The versatility of maskoid
Section 7: Trees
-Step-by-step demonstration of how to paint thickly wooded areas
-Determining the direction of light and it's effect on vegetation
-How to create tree trunks and branches, knots and bark
Section 8: Landscapes
-How to work from a pencil sketch
-Using color to create a Winter mood.
- Section 9: Windows
-The 3 secret stages of painting the perfect window
-Detailed pencil sketches
Section 10: Textures
-How to achieve the texture of old wood
-The secrets to painting a realistic stone wall
Section 11: Edges
-How to create realistic pictures
-How to avoid the "pasted in" look of sharp edges
Section 12: Interiors
-How to choose an interesting subject
-Using abstraction to define the composition
Section 13: Street Scenes
-Using lighting to make your street scene more interesting
Section 14: Use of Forms
-Using abstractions as a basis for your compositions
-Looking for the "big shapes"
Section 15: Seascapes
-How to paint breaking surf
-How to use maskoid to create whitecap waves
-How to create a calm beach scene
Section 16: Planning and Selection
-A complete step-by-step demonstration of how to work from a photograph to a finished watercolor!
And there's more.
- Price: $37.00 - Get Ebook Now
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