Alwyn Crawshaw’s Watercolour Painting Course: A Step-by-step Guide to Success - Softcover

Crawshaw, Alwyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0004133498 ISBN 13: 9780004133492

Publisher: Collins, 1998

Synopsis

This very successful book by top TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw has sold over 60,000 copies in hardback and is now being reissued in paperback. It covers everything that the beginner needs to know about watercolour painting in 32 comprehensive lessons. Filled with clear instruction and wonderful examples, this is a great introduction to watercolours.

Readers are encouraged to work through each lesson in turn so that gradually they will improve their technique and gain in confidence. Alwyn Crawshaw explains each process clearly and offers advice and encouragement at every stage.

The book includes:

A series of practical lessons covering all the basic watercolour methods and techniques
· Simple exercises and several step-by-step painting demonstrations, with clear and detailed instructions
· Revealing examples of ‘what went wrong’, showing how to avoid common painting problems
· A wide variety of subjects – trees, water, skies, flowers, buildings, people, boats and animals

About this title

Synopsis:

This very successful book, by top TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw, has sold over 60,000 copies in hardback and is now being reissued in paperback. It covers everything that the beginner needs to know about watercolour painting in 32 comprehensive lessons. Readers are encouraged to work through each lesson in turn so that gradually they will improve their technique and gain in confidence. Alwyn Crawshaw explains each process clearly and offers advice and encouragement at every stage. The book includes: * A series of practical lessons covering all the basic watercolour methods and techniques * Simple exercises and several step-by-step painting demonstrations, with clear and detailed instructions * Revealing examples of 'what went wrong', showing how to avoid common painting problems * A wide variety of subjects -- trees, water, skies, flowers, buildings, people, boats and animals

From the Back Cover:

In this bestselling book (over 60,000 copies sold in hardback), well-known TV artist Alwyn Cranshaw helps you to master the popular art of painting in watercolour. He covers everything the beginner needs to know in this complete course of 32 lessons, with many step-by-step demonstrations.

The course is progressive and really does start with the basics. Readers are encouraged to work through each lesson in turn, in this way gradually improving their technique and gaining in confidence.

CONTENTS INCLUDE:
· 32 self-contained progressive lessons
· Simple exercises on brush control and how to use washes
· Advice on colours and how to mix them
· Basic exercises on drawing, measuring and perspective
· Hints on how to paint from your photographs

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0004133498
• ISBN 13: 9780004133492
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136