Watercolors in a Weekend: Flowers : Pick Up a Brush and Paint Your First Picture This Weekend (Watercolours in a Weekend)
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Book Overview
A unique guide that will teach complete beginners how to paint a beautiful floral watercolour in just one weekend. Beginners recognise that they need to acquire basic painting skills - but at the same time they are eager to produce their first finished painting. This popular 'weekend' formula allows them to do both in a limited amount of time - to build skills gradually and to produce an attractive, frameable painting that they can hang on their walls by the end of the weekend. The author starts by introducing the materials required, and then leads readers through a series of watercolour technique exercises designed to provide a basic grounding in the skills needed for this subject area. This instruction is followed by six weekend projects for painting a range of popular floral subjects: a single flower; a group of white flowers; an indoors still life; an outdoors close-up; autumn flowers; and wild flowers in the landscape. Each course starts with practice exercises to be completed on the Saturday; readers are then ready to complete the full watercolour painting on the Sunday. Clear instructions accompany step-by-step photographs throughout, and technical information is given in special feature boxes.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0715316370
ISBN13:9780715316375
Release Date:April 2004
Publisher:David & Charles
Length:120 Pages
Weight:1.18 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Solution for beginners
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Just like to say after purchasing other books which should have been for beginners and turned out not to be so.This book Watercolors in a weekend - flowers was finally what I needed! This is really a step by step book. I was able to follow directions easily and creating is a great joy - I can do it! Perfect for beginner watercolorists.
Thanks, Jill!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
After months of sitting with my preschooler at the easel and painting nothing but crude daisies, I bought this book. It's been three days and I am already painting flowers that look like flowers. The techniques are simple and are explained well with text and photographs. I find that many how-to-paint books are filled with the artist's own finished works but never show the intimidated beginner how to get there. This book is different in that it takes the reader through a step-by-step process that begins with the first stroke and ends with the final product. I highly recommend this book to the beginning watercolorist.
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