Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner

New in paperback, 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 basic techniques including: brushstrokes; colour mixing; making objects look 3D; depicting distance and foreground; painting simple buildings; and painting fruit, vegetables, flowers, skies, trees, landscapes and coastlines.

Lecturer and writer, Sharon Finmark explains how you can paint realistic figures, covering: scale and proportion; mixing convincing skin colours; painting from photographs; painting single figures; painting people in groups; and depicting movement and light.

Popular painter and teacher, Trevor Waugh demonstrates techniques for painting domestic, farmyard and wild animals.Starting with simple shapes, Trevor takes you through the rudiments of: 3D shapes, tone and colour, texture and pattern, individual animal features, movement, and foreshortening.