The Watercolour Companion by Matthew Palmer

The Watercolour Companion by Matthew Palmer is full of tips and techniques to improve your watercolour painting. This innovative guide will be indispensible to your watercolour practice, allowing you to dip in and out whenever you need advice or guidance.

Palmer begins by covering the watercolour basics including advice on materials, how to create sucessful compositions and beginner-friendly troubleshooting. There are detailed chapters offering advice on painting flowers, trees, buidings, water, people and wildlife - teaching you to create lush, believable greens, sparkling water, shimmering moonlight, realistic figures and more.

The author also offers indispensible advice about his colour mixing process. Carefully calculated and illustrated in the book, these mixes will allow you to achieve perfect results every time. The exact colours you need, and in what proportions, are all indicated - with all mixes shown wet and dry. The dry swatches stretch to the edge of the page, allowing you to simply hold the book up to your work or subject and judge the colour.