The Watercolour Companion: Techniques & tips to improve your painting

The Watercolour Companion: Techniques & tips to improve your painting


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A bestselling artist shares his favorite tricks-of-the-trade so beginner to intermediate artists can take their watercolor paintings to the next level.

Includes viewfinders and color mixes for mastering composition, proportion, perspective, and effects!

This indispensable watercolor painting book is like having a professional artist on your shoulder! Packaged in a small, journal-like format, it is designed for on-the-go reference—whether you’re painting indoors or out.

Inside you’ll find:
• Sketching tips and mini demos
• Essential color mixes for different subjects, shadows, etc.
• Troubleshooting tips for correcting mistakes
• Essential items list for when you’re painting outdoors
• Viewfinders to help with proportions, perspective, and composition
• Ruler printed down the side of the cover
 
Color swatches (“recipes”) are also printed down the sides of the color mixing pages, with the component colors and percentages alongside. Hold the swatches up to your subject, so you can match the color and create the right mix.
 
Combining top tips, handy hints, and useful tricks-of-the-trade, this watercolor painting book is the perfect resource for beginner to intermediate watercolor artists!

From the Publisher

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Let this innovative and indispensable book be your painting companion: simply dip in and out whenever you need advice and guidance from best-selling author, Matthew Palmer. Designed to aid you whilst painting either indoors or out, the small format and hard cover make the book easy to transport and to store with the rest of your painting kit.

The book also includes a pull-out picture finder, which will help you create the best composition from the scene in front of you, isolate and identify a colour, try different picture formats and help with proportion and size.

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Start with watercolour basics and learn to plan successful pictures, then select expert guidance, tips for success, and beginner-friendly troubleshooting from within the sections on flowers, trees, buildings, water, people and wildlife.

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Unique to this book are Matthew’s key mix swatches. The paint mix is shown both wet and dry, and the dry swatches stretch to the edge of the page, so you can also simply hold the book up to the object you’re painting, find a colour match and create the right mix with ease.

Discover how to make your moonlit sky really glow; learn how to paint lush, realistic foliage; add believable figures; and create driving rain and sparkling water.

Moonlit skyMoonlit sky

Moonlit sky

Lush foliage and butterflyLush foliage and butterfly

Lush foliage

Driving rain with red London phone box and houses of ParliamentDriving rain with red London phone box and houses of Parliament

Driving rain

Sparkling water and waterfallSparkling water and waterfall

Sparkling water

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Search Press (September 13, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 178221948X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1782219484
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.55 x 7.37 inches

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Customers find the book’s content helpful and informative. They find it a useful guide with helpful tips and color mixing aids to guide them on their watercolor journey.

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