Complete Guide to Watercolour: All the Essential Techniques and Skills You Need

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In this beautifully produced book, artist and teacher David Webb shareshis expertise to provide comprehensive guidance for anyone painting in watercolour, from beginners up.

How-to techniques are at the heart of the book and feature detailed explanations and demonstrations that will get you progressing fast, with a real understanding of the medium. Included in this section are Help! panels that focus on what can go wrong: the typical mistakes made and how you can avoid them.

Readers will also discover the widest possible range of watercolour techniques thanks to our team of internationally recognised guest artists, who will be revealing some of their painting secrets in a series of life lessons how they appear to get the paint to really glow and their paintings to spring into life.

Previously published asComplete Guide to Watercolour(9781782215738).

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From beginners up this book, one of an excellent series, provides all the techniques and essential skills you need to begin to understand watercolour and paint your first paintings. There is no doubt that watercolour takes skill and understanding and that how it works is key to being able to use it. Understand the medium, learn how to mix, apply and more. This great watercolour primer will help you achieve success. Washes, resists, colour charts, design and perspective, texture, step-by-step demonstrations and fabulous finished art.

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David Webb specialized in extremely detailed natural history illustrations for many years. He then changed to pure watercolour and took to the much looser, freer style shown in this book. He now runs painting holidays and workshops, and demonstrates around the UK, and his work is displayed in a number of galleries.