Product Description

Have you ever been amazed by watercolor paintings that seem to spring to life before your eyes? Would you love to be able to paint with watercolors? Now, you can. Watercolor Painting For Dummies shows you the fun and easy way to create breathtaking paintings so beautiful you won’t believe you made them yourself.

This friendly, guide gives you hands-on instruction and easy-to-follow, step-by-step exercises to help you master the basics. Filled with full-color projects and sample paintings, it shows you how to work with color and texture, practice composition, and make smooth changes. You’ll find out how to select the best tools, materials, and supplies, practice basic brush strokes, and use the three best common techniques: flat wash, graded wash, and rough texture. Discover how to:

• Select the right brushes, pigments, and paper
• Mix colors and work with white
• Create backgrounds and foregrounds
• Transfer your drawings to watercolor
• Avoid common watercolor mistakes
• Experiment with texture using salt, sponges, plastic wrap, and more
• Find your way around the color wheel
• Practice the principles of design
• Plan compositions using thumbnails
• Work with one-point, two-point, and three-point perspective
• Paint fabrics, shiny surfaces, and organic textures
• Paint landscapes, seascapes, animals and more

Complete with strategies for improving your painting immediately and marketing and selling your work, Watercolor Painting For Dummies, is the resource you need to make your creative dreams come true.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #109798 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 294 pages

From the Back Cover
Filled with FULL COLOR, easy-to-complete projects and sample paintings

The fun and easy way to create beautiful works of art with watercolors

Would you love to paint with watercolors? You can! This friendly guide gives you hands-on instruction and easy-to-follow exercises to help you master the basics. You'll see how to work with color and texture, practice composition, and make smooth changes. And you'll paint a variety of subjects, from animals and still lifes to landscapes and seascapes!

• Select the right painting supplies

• Mix colors and work with white

• Create backgrounds and foregrounds

• Transfer your drawings to watercolor

• Avoid common painting mistakes

About the Author
Colette Pitcher, an artist and educator, is a regular contributor to Paint Works magazine and a signature member of the Colorado Watercolor Society. Colette owns the Showcase Art Center in Greeley, Colorado.

Customer Reviews

Watercolors made Easy
I am a self taught artist and I am moving from acrylics to watercolors. I have about 23 books in my shelf on watercolor. However when I had a peep inside this book, I went for it. It is an amazing book!! Like all dummies books, this is written in simple language and intrigues you to the fascinating world of Watercolors walking you through it step by step. I just love it!!

don't be a dummy
There are way better books on Watercolor out there .Check my listmania or other people's.try searching for: hillary page ,duane light,tony couch,robert wade,edgar whitney,john pike,jeanne dobie,zoltan szabo,frank webb,homer,john singer sargent.And I give that same advice to whoever approved the publication of this and the other "dummies" art series.

It seems that the dummies books on drawing and painting all suffer from the same lack of quality of instruction and of bad examples .What were they thinking?