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This popular book provides all the information you need to get started in watercolour painting. Full of clear, simple advice and more than 70 step-by-step demonstrations, Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner will teach even the least confident of beginners the skills and techniques needed to start painting.In this easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide, three professional artists explain all the basic watercolour techniques.Top TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw demonstrates the basic techniques including brushstrokes, colour mixing and depicting distance and foreground to get you started in watercolour.Lecturer and Artist Sharon Finmark explains how you can paint realistic figures, covering scale and proportion, mixing convincing skin colours and portraying movement and light effectively.Artist and teacher Trevor Waugh demonstrates techniques for painting animals - domestic, farmyard and wild. Starting with simple animal shapes, Trevor takes you through the rudiments of 3D shapes, tone and colour

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Top TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw teaches you the basic watercolour techniques
Artist and lecturer Sharon Finmark shows you how to paint people in a variety of poses and settings
Artist and teacher Trevor Waugh shows yu how to paint pets, farmyard and wild animals

Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner

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    A Paperback / softback by Alwyn Crawshaw, Sharon Finmark, Trevor Waugh

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint Collins
      Published 6 November 2006
      ISBN-13 9780007236060
      978-0007236060
      ISBN-10 0007236069
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      Art & Photography The Arts: techniques and principles Watercolours or pastels Hobbies, Games & Quizzes Painting, drawing and art manuals

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This popular book provides all the information you need to get started in watercolour painting. Full of clear, simple advice and more than 70 step-by-step demonstrations, Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner will teach even the least confident of beginners the skills and techniques needed to start painting.In this easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide, three professional artists explain all the basic watercolour techniques.Top TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw demonstrates the basic techniques including brushstrokes, colour mixing and depicting distance and foreground to get you started in watercolour.Lecturer and Artist Sharon Finmark explains how you can paint realistic figures, covering scale and proportion, mixing convincing skin colours and portraying movement and light effectively.Artist and teacher Trevor Waugh demonstrates techniques for painting animals - domestic, farmyard and wild. Starting with simple animal shapes, Trevor takes you through the rudiments of 3D shapes, tone and colour

      Table of Contents

      Top TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw teaches you the basic watercolour techniques
      Artist and lecturer Sharon Finmark shows you how to paint people in a variety of poses and settings
      Artist and teacher Trevor Waugh shows yu how to paint pets, farmyard and wild animals

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