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This friendly, guide gives you hands-on instruction and easy-to-follow, step-by-step exercises to help you master the basics. Filled with full-color projects and sample paintings, it shows you how to work with color and texture, practice composition, and make smooth changes. You’ll find out how to select the best tools, materials, and supplies, practice basic brush strokes, and use the three best common techniques: flat wash, graded wash, and rough texture. Discover how to:
- Select the right brushes, pigments, and paper
- Mix colors and work with white
- Create backgrounds and foregrounds
- Transfer your drawings to watercolor
- Avoid common watercolor mistakes
- Experiment with texture using salt, sponges, plastic wrap, and more
- Find your way around the color wheel
- Practice the principles of design
- Plan compositions using thumbnails
- Work with one-point, two-point, and three-point perspective
- Paint fabrics, shiny surfaces, and organic textures
- Paint landscapes, seascapes, animals and more
Complete with strategies for improving your painting immediately and marketing and selling your work, Watercolor Painting For Dummies, is the resource you need to make your creative dreams come true.
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The fun and easy way to create beautiful works of art with watercolors
Would you love to paint with watercolors? You can! This friendly guide gives you hands-on instruction and easy-to-follow exercises to help you master the basics. You'll see how to work with color and texture, practice composition, and make smooth changes. And you'll paint a variety of subjects, from animals and still lifes to landscapes and seascapes!
Select the right painting supplies
Mix colors and work with white
Create backgrounds and foregrounds
Transfer your drawings to watercolor
Avoid common painting mistakes
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Watercolor for Dummies kept me painting.,
This review is from: Watercolor Painting For Dummies (Paperback)
This book Watercolor for Dummies was a God send for me. I had read a lot of other books from the library on this technique and that technique and had tried out most of them but while they all probably helped someone with a bit of experience they did not do much for me a complete novice and I was very discouraged with my attempts at following them. Then I found this book that outlines everything from step 1 in a clear concise manner that saved me from giving up. This book is wonderfully written and illustrated with dozens of explanatory photos and diagrams that shows everything a beginner needs to know . Even if you have never even heard of watercolor painting before if you follow step by step you will be turning out pretty decent paintings by the time you do all the exercises. This book is a steal for the price and is always within reach of my painting table. If you want to take up watercolor painting this is the book for you.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Watercolors made Easy,
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This review is from: Watercolor Painting For Dummies (Paperback)
I am a self taught artist and I am moving from acrylics to watercolors. I have about 23 books in my shelf on watercolor. However when I had a peep inside this book, I went for it. It is an amazing book!! Like all dummies books, this is written in simple language and intrigues you to the fascinating world of Watercolors walking you through it step by step. I just love it!!
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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don't be a dummy,
By Phil Morin "Visual Artist" (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Watercolor Painting For Dummies (Paperback)
There are way better books on Watercolor out there .Check my listmania or other people's.try searching for: hillary page ,duane light,tony couch,robert wade,edgar whitney,john pike,jeanne dobie,zoltan szabo,frank webb,homer,john singer sargent.And I give that same advice to whoever approved the publication of this and the other "dummies" art series.It seems that the dummies books on drawing and painting all suffer from the same lack of quality of instruction and of bad examples .What were they thinking?
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