Synopses & Reviews
Banish boring watercolors forever This guide gives you the power tools you need to transform dull, flat landscapes into robust, colorful expressions of your artistic vision. Each chapter focuses on a specific strategy for tackling tough challenges, complete with inspiring examples, hands-on demonstrations and instructional diagrams to make these strategies easy and fun to learn. Following this guide's masterful visual instruction, you'll learn how to:
See beyond what you see to develop strong foundations in every composition
Avoid repainting, overworking and frustration by focusing on a composition's unifying elements
Become decisive with your values for heightened interest and impact
Quickly and easily mix a huge range of clean, rich colorsincluding vibrant grays and greenswith no more mud
Put it all together following detailed step-by-step demonstrations of complete paintings from start to finish
Whether you're new to watercolor painting or not, this guide will empower you to push shape and color into exciting new territory. Experience the satisfaction of painting with power tools and enjoy immediate results in your work.
Synopsis
In Powerful Watercolor Landscapes you will learn to create impressive watercolor landscapes by focusing on basic design strategies as taught through a series of 30 "power tools." Instructional diagrams, 15 mini demonstrations, finished paintings with callouts, and fun interactive exercises make these tools easy to follow and apply. Four full finished painting step-by-step demonstrations will help you see how to put all these tools to use