This invaluable handbook for all watercolourists takes a practical problem-and-solution approach to painting a range of popular subjects, showing common mistakes and how to rectify them. Mastering fundamental drawing and watercolour techniques forms the basis of successful watercolour painting - the author starts by leading readers through a series of examples and exercises that will introduce them to tonal drawing, colour mixing, applying washes, and much more. Readers will then be ready to move on to the eight themed sections designed to help them in their specific areas of interest. Each theme starts by demonstrating the basic brushstrokes required for that subject. Trudy then sets out a series of problem-and-solution pages that are packed with useful tips on how to paint those subjects and avoid common pitfalls. The information throughout is presented clearly with plenty of useful annotations in a handy portable size so readers can take it wherever their painting takes them.
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Trudy Friend is an experienced and accomplished artist and teacher who runs specialist courses in all media. Her special passion for drawing and watercolour painting led her to devise the highly popular 'Problems and Solutions' column for the UK's Leisure Pointer magazine on which this, and her previous title Drawing Problems and Solutions, are based. She has also written for The Artist and Artists & Illustrators magazines and lives in Monmouthshire, Wales.
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These exercises are designed to help you learn to interpret movement of water and clouds, allowing the surface of white watercolour paper to play as important a part as the paint itself. Read the first page
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These exercises are designed to help you learn to interpret movement of water and clouds, allowing the surface of white watercolour paper to play as important a part as the paint itself. Read the first page
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Format:Hardcover
This book of 127 pages is packed full of information. Ms.Friend is an excellent teacher. She covers eight themes, 1.Skies and Water, 2.Trees and Foilage, 3.Flowers, 4.Fruit and Vegitables, 5.Animals, 6.Still lifes in the Landscape, 7.Still life materials and 8.Buildings. Under each of these topics she shows paintings which illustrate typical beginners faults, discusses these faults and shows in pencil how to deal with them, then shows how to overcome the problems in paint. It is a book that goes way deeper than the step-by-step books that show you a scene and tells you how to paint that scene, this book shows you how to figure out and solve painting problems for any topic you may choose to paint for yourself. As a person who regularily produces the 'before' pictures and not being able to figure out where I was going wrong I am thrilled with the information in the book and have even managed to produce some pictures that look like the 'after' pictures. I am also a big fan of her other extremely helpful book "Drawing Problems and Solutions".
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By Jaypickup
Format:Paperback
Very helpful diagrams, and clear instructions. Gives attention to detail for beginners and advanced watercolourists alike. Love the book.
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Format:Paperback
This book is almost identical to the book "Artists Problems & Solutions Handbook" by the same author. Same inside - just different cover and title.
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WAtercolour problem soloutions
A nice book for any budding water colourist, Lots of soloutions for problems a useful book arrived on time and well wraped.
Published 12 months ago by Mrs. M. FDyer
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Watercolour Problems and Solutions by Trudy Friend
I am a complete 75 year old beginner. My husband bought this book to encourage me to start. Something I had been toying with for sometime. Read more
Published on 14 Dec 2010 by Hunt
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Excellent reference work
I would recommend this title to anyone starting watercolour, it has detailed and step by step instructions how to reproduce various objects in watercolour, its one to keep by for... Read more
Published on 2 Feb 2009 by ISCA
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