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    Painting Watercolors
    Ebook171 pages48 minutes

    Painting Watercolors

    By Cathy Johnson

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    About this ebook

    Make your first steps in watercolor fun and rewarding!

    Watercolor's vivid colors and fresh, direct brush strokes make it the most exciting way to paint. "But," you think, "Learning to paint must be hard and frustrating." Not with ,b>Cathy Johnson as your teacher! Here, she makes learning to paint in watercolor funeven easy!

    With Painting Watercolors, you'll learn to paint by picking up a brush and paintingnot by reading about a bunch of confusing theories.

    Cathy tells you everything you need to beginincluding:

    • Which tools and materials you should buy to get off to a good, affordable start
    • When, what, even where to paint
    • Explanations of watercolor terms (such as "washes" and "puddles")
    • Easy and useful painting trickssuch as glazing and drybrush.

    Exercises help you loosen up and learn the ins and outs of putting paint on paper. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions show you how to paint water, believable skies, a variety of trees in different seasons and other popular elements. Plus, a dozen demonstrations show you how paintings come together, from initial sketch to final brushstrokes.

    With Cathy's help, you can start painting right away!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNorth Light Books
    Release dateAug 15, 1995
    ISBN9781440321870
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    • 5/5
      This is probably the most helpful book on beginner water color painting. Although the subjects are mostly limited to landscape, these core skills will help me in my own work past landscapes.

      Cathy Johnson has published several fantastic illustrated journal books, all of which are worth finding.

      This one on getting past the fear of this medium by practicing simple approaches will be very useful for me and for anybody who wants to learn a new medium, whether for illustrated journals, landscape, still life, or urban sketching.