Winning with Watercolour - Softcover

Waugh, Trevor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007216904 ISBN 13: 9780007216901

Publisher: Collins, 2006

Synopsis

This best-selling guide to watercolour painting is relaunched in paperback in February 2006, with a fresh new cover design. In this superbly illustrated and practical book, Trevor Waugh shows how to interpret and develop atmospheric watercolours.

Colour and light provide the key to creating paintings that are exciting and full of atmosphere, and Trevor Waugh focuses on these important aspects throughout the book. He also teaches how to use bold brushwork, transparent washes and, most importantly, colourful lights and darks.

Winning With Watercolour includes the following features:

· Winning tips – helpful checklists and hints on painting successful watercolours

· Step-by-step demonstrations – detailed staged paintings of varied subjects

· Exercises – practical instruction in every chapter

· Watercolour techniques – essential guidelines on key topics

· Popular subjects – landscapes, flowers, figures and animals in a setting

The practical instruction and winning tips make this the perfect guide for the practised beginner wishing to move onto the next level of watercolour painting.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Colour and light provide the key to creating paintings that are exciting and full of atmosphere, and Trevor Waugh focuses on these important aspects throughout the book. He sees a painting as a 'room', for which a colour scheme needs to be chosen and in which the different elements must be carefully placed in relation to the light and the composition as a whole.

'Winning with Watercolour' includes the following features:
· Winning tips – helpful checklists and hints on painting successful watercolours
· Step-by-step demonstrations – detailed staged paintings of varied subjects
· Exercises – practical instruction in every chapter
· Watercolour techniques – essential guidelines on key topics
· Popular subjects – landscapes, flowers, figures and animals in a setting

About the Author:

Trevor Waugh is a popular painter who runs very successful workshops and painting holidays. He is a demonstrator for Daler-Rowney and author of two other painting books, Collins You Can Paint Flowers in Watercolour and Collins You Can Paint Animals. His work is also well known in the form of greeting cards and prints.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0007216904
• ISBN 13: 9780007216901
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128