Name: The Watercolour Companion by Matthew Palmer
Brand: Search Press
SKU: 9781782219484
Price: 9.99 GBP
Availability: InStock

Description

The Watercolour Companion by Matthew Palmer is full of tips and techniques to improve your watercolour painting. This innovative guide will be indispensible to your watercolour practice, allowing you to dip in and out whenever you need advice or guidance.

Palmer begins by covering the watercolour basics including advice on materials, how to create sucessful compositions and beginner-friendly troubleshooting. There are detailed chapters offering advice on painting flowers, trees, buidings, water, people and wildlife - teaching you to create lush, believable greens, sparkling water, shimmering moonlight, realistic figures and more.

The author also offers indispensible advice about his colour mixing process. Carefully calculated and illustrated in the book, these mixes will allow you to achieve perfect results every time. The exact colours you need, and in what proportions, are all indicated - with all mixes shown wet and dry. The dry swatches stretch to the edge of the page, allowing you to simply hold the book up to your work or subject and judge the colour.

Also included is a pull-out picture finger, which will help you create the best composition from the scene in front of you. You can also use it to isolate and identify colours, try different formats and get help with proportion and size. The perfect aid for painting indoors or outdoors, the small format and hard cover make this book easy to transport and store with the rest of your painting kit.

129 page Hardback with elastic band and envelope containing picture finder. 127 x 180mm.

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Contents

Painting basics:
- Getting started 6
- Preparing paint 8
- What are key mixes? 10
- Water and flow 12
- Test your strength 14
- Brushes and brushmarks 16
- What paper? 18
- Selecting colours 20
- Adding more paints 22
Planning successful pictures:
- Using the picture finder 24
- Finding time to paint 26
- What to paint 28
- Skies and light, Clear sky 30
- Fresh cloudy sky 32
- Evening sky 34
- Key mixes for shadows 36
- Sunset 38
- Silhouettes 40
- Moonlit sky 42
- Stormy sky 44
- Rainfall 46
Flowers:
- Masses of flowers 48
- Daisies 50
- Foxgloves 52
- Poppies 54
- Carpet of bluebells 56
Trees and woodlands:
- Trees in your paintings 58
- Midground trees 60
- Mixes for spring foliage 62
- Cherry blossom 64
- Distant woodland 66
- Key mixes for summer foliage 68
- Palm tree 70
- Trees in rows 72
- Key mixes for autumn foliage 74
- Branches 76
- Woodland 78
Building and mountains:
- Buildings in the landscape 80
- Stonework 82
- Doorways 84
- Architectural accuracy 86
- Rocks and cliffs 88
- Mountains 90
- Snow-capped peaks 92
Water and the sea:
- Key mixes for the sea 94
- Waves and sea spray 96
- The beach 98
- Reflections 100
- Boats 102
People and wildlife:
- Key mixes for skintones 104
- Figures in your pictures 106
- Adding a sense of life 108
- Stag in wood 110
- Small animals 112
- Animals in the landscape 114
- Kingfisher 116
Watercolour secrets and special effects:
- Falling snow 118
- Fixing cauliflowers 120
- Splashes and splatters 122
- Leaf stencils 124
- Beams of light 126
Glossary 128

About the Author

Matthew Palmer is a best-selling author and renowned demonstrator of watercolour painting, and his classes are particularly popular with beginners. He has been painting seriously for over twenty years and specializes in landscapes, still life and animals. He has his own studio at his home in Derbyshire, UK and teaches hundreds of people each week, as well as running watercolour workshops and holidays. He has many personal exhibitions, participates in several art shows and appears regularly on television as well as on his own internet-based art show at www.watercolour.tv

Specifications

Technique

Painting

Medium

Watercolour

Loose/Set

Individual

Brand

Search Press

Book Format

Hardback

Author

Matthew Palmer

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