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The world's first truly interactive art instruction book.

The world's first truly interactive art instruction book, The Watercolour Wheel Book will help anyone who wants to paint in watercolour to produce quality art in days. It begins with a look at the equipment you will need to get started and then describes the basic principles of colour mixing and applying colour. The book presents a series of eight step-by-step projects designed to teach you the most rewarding watercolour techniques, such as laying flat and graduated washes, working wet-in-wet and wet-in-dry, masking out, lifting off, and sponging, all applied to subjects from still lifes to landscapes, and from buildings to woodland. By working through the projects, you will increase your knowledge and confidence and will be able to produce satisfying watercolour art. Each project also introduces and illustrates the most important technique for the project and gives at-a-glance advice on colour mixing. The colour wheel on the jacket allows mixes to be immediately visible, for successful paintings every time.

Turn the interactive colour wheel to instantly see the results of mixing different colours. Learn the basics of colour mixing in watercolour, how to get the effect you are looking for, and how to use watercolour in your compositions Discover the materials and equipment that watercolour artists use most often and with greatest success Work through the eight projects to learn the basic techniques of working in watercolours Grow in confidence as you paint so that you produce exciting and successful watercolour art every time.

Contents

Introduction, how to use this book, materials & equipment, basic techniques, gallery, the projects: 1. Signal Box, 1. Castle Ruins, 3. Still Life, 4. Purple Iris, 5. Impressions of Venice, 6. Bridge at Pont-y-garth, 7. Constable's Granary, 8. Woodland Glade.

Paperback. 160 pages.