Watercolor Basics

In this beginner-friendly guide, Jack Reid will show you the hows of watercolor painting. He covers it all in clear, easy-to-understand terms - beginning with what tools and materials you should buy to get off to a good, affordable start. You'll find simple, step-by-step exercises to help you: control your brush with easemaster the four basic watercolor techniques - the flat wash, the graded wash, the wet-in-wet and the dry-brushTake the "Five Steps to a Painting" - step-by-step demonstrations guide you from one color to five, to make your paintings "sing" with coloruse photography and photocopying to create paintings inspired by lifeThen put everything you've learned into action by following along with seven painting projects. Before you know it, you'll be creating your own beautiful watercolor paintings!