Synopses & Reviews
Hazel Soan's watercolors have won her international recognition; now she helps less experienced painters master the challenges of this versatile medium. Encouraging budding watercolorists to be bold in their use of color and brushstroke, Soan emphasizes her belief that tone is king. And by showing how mistakes can be incorporated into a composition, she reveals how forgiving watercolor can be. Illustrated with glowing examples of Hazel's own work, this luminous books also features easy-to-follow demonstrations of every technique.
Synopsis
Hazel Soan is a well-known and popular artist and an enthusiastic and inspirational teacher. In The Essence of Watercolour Hazel shows how wonderfully versatile and beguiling the medium of watercolour is and how to get the most out of it.
Hazel stresses how important it is to understand the characteristics of the medium in order to exploit it to the full. She encourages the reader to explore the properties of watercolour and to be unafraid of strength of colour and brushstroke.
Hazel shows through demonstration and projects that tone is king in watercolour and illustrates how to paint light with the use of shade. Armed with this understanding she demonstrates that watercolour is not such an unforgiving medium after all: accidents and mistakes can be disguised, overridden and corrected.
The Essence of Watercolour is a culmination of many years of Hazel's teaching and demonstrating, in which she offers inspirational insights into the secrets of watercolour painting and encourages artists to take their art to the next level.
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Start paintingand#8212;in just one afternoon! Bestselling author and artist Hazel Soan has distilled all the key elements of creating beautiful watercolors into this concise, accessible, step-by-step guide. Geared to total beginners, Learn Watercolour Quickly covers all the basic techniques from brushstrokes to composition, and explains how to choose and mix colors; select a subject; and create perspective, light, and shade.
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Following the huge success of Experimental Flowers in Watercolour, artist Ann Blockley turns her hand to landscapes. Through stunning examples of her colorful, expressive work, Blockley explains how to employ these same techniques to develop your personal style. Learn how to combine paint with other media to create dramatic effects; manipulate paint with materials such as cling film; and use distressing, layering, burning, and more.
About the Author
Hazel Soan is a popular and successful artist who divides her time between London and Cape Town, exhibiting her work widely. She has her own gallery in Fulham, London; is the author of seven bestselling books for HarperCollins; and has made several successful DVDs. She was one of the art experts in the popular Channel 4 TV series
Watercolour Challenge.