Publisher's Synopsis
Illustrated with the author's own work, this guide is designed to help the novice watercolourist and to serve as a reference for the more experienced. It shows how to simplify the approach to watercolour and to improve one's painting skills.;The author shows ways of employing watercolour's unique characteristics to enhance each composition. Her step-by-step demonstrations are accompanied by complete palette listings, and major points of development are indicated and explained.;With constructive use of sketching, readers are encouraged to improve drawing and observation skills. There follow lessons in painting a wide variety of fruit and vegetables. Readers are also taught to express white effectively and how to interpret the light and colour of an open-air scene.
