Designed for beginner and expert painters alike, this helpful handbook provides information on using color and maintaining spontaneity while painting with watercolors. All the techniques essential for successful paintings are covered, and advice on brush strokes, color selection, and tips on perspective are provided. Helpful chapters on painting a wide range of subjects--including people, landscapes, seascapes, buildings, gardens, flowers, and still life subjects--are also included.
Designed for beginner and expert painters alike, this helpful handbook provides information on using color and maintaining spontaneity while painting ...
Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan has distilled her teaching into a concise guide that focuses on the things that matter most to aspiring painters. Not only can oil painting techniques be picked up relatively quickly, but the medium is relatively forgiving, allowing novices to easily correct their mistakes. Soan offers advice on materials (keeping things to a minimum), mixing colors, basic brush techniques, and using a palette knife. With the easy-to-follow exercises and demonstrations to hone your skills, you'll soon move on to still lifes, flowers, animals, landscapes, figures, and...
Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan has distilled her teaching into a concise guide that focuses on the things that matter most to aspiring paint...
From intimate portraits to bustling crowds, this practical guide by bestselling artist Hazel Soan teaches budding painters how to paint people . . . in just a few hours For many of us, learning to paint is a lifelong aspiration--and popular artist and writer Hazel Soan distills the information that matters most into this essential guide. Best of all, even beginners can master her techniques--which include proportion and perspective and using different media--quickly. Soan's simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations explain how to depict people in a variety of poses and...
From intimate portraits to bustling crowds, this practical guide by bestselling artist Hazel Soan teaches budding painters how to paint people . . ...