A Complete Step-By-Step Course In Painting Techniques From Getting Started To Achieving Excellence, With Over 1,600 Colour Photographs.
Discover the pleasure of painting in watercolour, oil, acrylic and gouache with this comprehensive, fully illustrated step-by-step guide. A complete guide to artist's materials, including paint, brushes, additives, gels, pastes, supports, varnish, easels, and much more. Includes the most common paint techniques together with small-scale practice exercises: masking out, using resists, sponging, wet into wet, dry brush, alla prima, glazing, scumbling, impasto, and removing paint.
50 full-scale projects, specially commissioned from leading professional artists, give you the chance to practise your newly acquired skills. Packed with expert advice and beautifully illustrated with more than 1,600 colour photographs, this reference book sets out everything you need to know in one easy-to-follow volume.
