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| Watercolours in a Weekend: Pick Up a Brush and Paint Your First Picture This Weekend | 
 enlarge | Author: Hazel Harrison
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 248114
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 7.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0715313924
Dewey Decimal Number: 702
EAN: 9780715313923
ASIN: 0715313924
Publication Date: October 2002
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Product Description
Readers who have never even picked up a paint brush will be amazed at what they can accomplish with the help of this one-of-a-kind instruction manual. Watercolours in a Weekend can teach anyone the essential skills needed to paint a complete watercolor picture in a single weekend. Structured around six short courses for painting popular subjects, these projects provide a complete beginner's art course. Each one begins with practice exercises, covering a wide range of watercolor techniques. Readers are then ready to complete a full watercolor painting in a day. The step-by-step demonstrations for the paintings use only the techniques learned from the exercises, and a palette of mixed paint and a color swatch accompany each step. Hazel Harrison is an accomplished art-instruction writer with many books to her credit.
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A Fun Way to Make Fast Progress--Great Book!! September 12, 2007
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I needed more experience with landscapes in watercolor, so I bought this book. The paintings that you learn to do in it are beautiful and exciting, but not too difficult. Step-by-step instructions are given beginning with the pencil sketch you will need on your watercolor paper and then proceeding to the first wash. Each lesson teaches something new.
The book begins with the usual material needed section, and then proceed to teach the basic painting techniques step-by-step by having you do a simple painting of ex: a simplified tree using wet-wet and then adding the trunk using another technique. Wet on dry is then taught in a 3-step exercise of a cloudy sky, lake and hills (nothing detailed---the book teaches everything in small exercises (paintings).
Next, 2 exercises in the use of masking medium and lifting medium.
Next, there are 2 pages on each subject of composition, choosing warm vs cool colors, perspectives. A few color mixes are suggested that can be safely used for landscape subjects.
The rest (majority) of the book is then dedicated to step-by-step painting projects-- the first several paintings teach you the basics of painting different types of clouds and skies. Next---Water--sunlight on water, reflections in water, moving water, waterfall, rough sea, moody sea. Each of these lessons are taught by following step-by-step directions to make a small painting
Next, mountains and lakes, then, trees and foliage--winter tree, foliage, tree shapes, trees in a setting, autumn trees. Next, a 6-page class on painting a scene of a road surrounded by trees with sunlight beaming through the trees--- as you progress in the book, the paintings you do become more detailed, building the beginner painter's confidence in a stepped method.
Next, Buildings and textures--linear perspective, light and shade--again, a step-by-step painting to do--simple but beautiful. Next, simple brickwork, with a step-by-step instruction to achieve an interesting end- product of a stuccoed wall with bricks showing through a hole and cracks on the stucco.
Next, windows and roofs, then a 6-page class on painting a farm scene-- the sketch to have on your paper is shown, making everything easy and fun.
Next, reflection--puddles on a farm track, buildings reflected in a flooded field, reflected boats, and a denver mill.
Several more beautiful paintings are taught in a stepped method, including winter landscape with a snow-covered tree, shadows on snow, low tide coastal scene, etc..
This is an outstanding book for beginner watercolorists. I was impressed by the simplicity of the paintings that you do, but at the same time, something you can be proud of and build on for the more complicated paintings.
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