You Can Paint Vibrant Watercolors in Twelve Easy Lessons

You Can Paint Vibrant Watercolors in Twelve Easy Lessons
Author: Yuko Nagayama
Publisher: Harper Design
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-09-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780062336323

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced painter, You Can Paint Vibrant Watercolors In Twelve Easy Steps is a visually rich guide that will help you master the stunning, but often complex techniques for creating beautiful, vibrant watercolors in twelve simple lessons. With its delicate strokes, incandescent washes, and seemingly effortless appearance, watercolor painting is one of the most beautiful mediums to work with. Yet those elements also make it one of the most difficult techniques to master. These water-based paints are known for diffusing, altering the shape of the paper and the appearance of the tint itself as it dries. In You Can Paint Vibrant Watercolors in Twelve Easy Steps, Yuko Nagayama, a leading expert in watercolor painting, shows painters of all levels how to improve their skills using her unique, foolproof, easy-to-follow directions. This book includes a review of all of the essential tools you’ll need to create dazzling watercolor paintings, tutorials about different paints, instructions on how to mix colors on a palette, and initial sketching techniques. Here, too, are illustrations that will excite and inspire. With You Can Paint Vibrant Watercolors in Twelve Easy Steps, painters can hone their expertise and achieve the most vibrancy in every watercolor painting.

You Can Paint Dazzling Watercolors in Twelve Easy Lessons

You Can Paint Dazzling Watercolors in Twelve Easy Lessons
Author: Yuko Nagayama
Publisher: Harper Design
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780062877765

A visually rich guide that can help aspiring and experienced artists master the stunning yet often complex techniques used to create dazzling watercolor backgrounds in only a few simple steps. Watercolor paintings are highly regarded for their delicate strokes, incandescent washes, and ethereal pigments. But the very beauty of this medium also makes it challenging for painters. Unlike oil and acrylic paints which can be easily applied and maintain their appearance after drying, the primary water base of watercolors alters the shape of the paper as well as the appearance of the paint as it dries. A leading expert in watercolor painting and highly regarded teacher, Yuko Nagayama has developed a unique and fool-proof twelve-step system to help you become proficient in creating exquisite landscapes as well as detailed objects and backgrounds using this popular medium. You Can Paint Dazzling Watercolors in Twelve Easy Lessons includes a list of necessary tools for watercolor painting, tutorials on different paints, instructions on mixing colors on a palette, and initial sketching techniques. Powered by Yuko’s unique method and filled with helpful illustrations, You Can Paint Dazzling Watercolors in Twelve Easy Lessons will inspire you to diversify your skills and create beautiful works of art.

Watercolor the Easy Way

Watercolor the Easy Way
Author: Sara Berrenson
Publisher: Watercolor the Easy Way
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780764359828

Step-by-step tutorials for 50 beautiful motifs including plants, flowers, animals, & more! - 50 beautiful motifs to paint in 30 minutes or less. - Printed on smooth watercolor paper so you can paint right inside the book! - Learn-at-a-glance instructions make the process easy for beginners. - Detailed paint patterns included for each tutorial. - Brush recommendations, color mixing, color palettes, and all the basics included! Love the look of watercolors but think you lack the skill? Think again! With Watercolor the Easy Way, you will learn all about color mixing, brush strokes, and more. Then, you will find a vast collection of 50 stunning pictures to paint. Each of the 50 tutorials is broken down into key steps so you can clearly see how to begin your painting, layer color, and add detail. Also included are hand-drawn patterns that can be traced onto your watercolor pad, brush recommendations, helpful hints, and color palettes. Best of all, the projects can be completed in 30 minutes! Experience the magic of watercolor, spark your creativity, and discover your inner artist with this book.

Colorways: Watercolor Animals

Colorways: Watercolor Animals
Author: Shaunna Russell
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2019-12-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1633228088

Discover how to create vibrant, colorful watercolor paintings of a range of animals! With Colorways: Watercolor Animals, learn to paint all your favorite animals, from an elephant and a whale to a dog, cat, fish, and more. Each step-by-step demonstration shows not only how to capture the animal’s likeness, but also how to use color to create magical, otherworldly, and whimsical paintings. In these tutorials, you will also learn how to use watercolor paint to suggest texture and fur on your animal subjects. Along the way, you will find technique instruction and tips for using different types of strokes, working with various brush shapes and sizes and using washes and underpaintings. The Colorways series teaches artists of all skill levels how to employ color across a variety of media in unique and imaginary ways to create innovative and inspired artwork. Focusing less on realistic artistic representations and more on creating expressive art, this series invites you to break the standard rules of color and let your imagination and artwork soar to new heights in order to create unconventional, whimsical, and fanciful works of art. Learn the customary rules of color, and then bypass them, with the help of Colorways: Watercolor Animals, a book that encourages you to use color for interpretive means and personal expression while painting your favorite animals.

The Watercolor Book

The Watercolor Book
Author: David Dewey
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780823056392

This thorough watercoloring guide starts with an up-to-date review of the tools and techniques used by today's watercolor artists and then offers detailed lessons in basic drawing skills. 420 color, 35 b&w illustrations.

Jean Haines' World of Watercolour

Jean Haines' World of Watercolour
Author: Jean Haines
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-06-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1782210393

Step into Jean Haines distinctive, exciting world of watercolour with this, the ultimate guide to her influences, style and work. Jean's loose, expressive paintings are filled with colour and personality, embracing a range of subjects that includes flowers, animals, people and places, all influenced by the countries and cities she's lived in and the people she's met during her life. This beautiful book contains easy-to-follow and inspiring introductory sections such as an artists treasure chest and the colour gym, offering practical guidance and in-depth exercises in an innovative and accessible way, and the numerous examples of Jeans work will inspire and encourage novice as well as experienced artists. After this introductory section, the book shows the reader how to put the skills they've learned into practice with gorgeous step-by-step projects packed full of expert tips and advice, encouraging them to move forward and develop their own style of working. Like her painting, Jean's writing is filled with passion and enthusiasm, transporting the reader through a world of watercolour that will not fail to excite and inspire.

New York Magazine

New York Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1979-09-17
Genre:
ISBN:

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Watercolor: Wild & Free

Watercolor: Wild & Free
Author: Natalia Skatula
Publisher: David and Charles
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1446379825

Learn how to paint adorable animals, flavorful fruits, lively plants, and more in this free-and-easy approach to watercolor. Artist Natalia Skatula has a beautiful, whimsical style that will charm you through twelve simple step-by-step projects and over one hundred worked examples. Beginning with an overview of materials and equipment, Natalia then covers the general techniques needed to achieve the paintings, along with her top-ten personal tips for success. Projects include: A majestic whale An adorable sloth Elephants Pandas Dogs Llamas Bears Foxes Rabbits And more Watercolor Wild and Free also includes a range of presentation ideas to inspire you to put your finished work on display or gift it. The gallery of examples that follows includes plants, cats, beetles, birds, sealife, jungle creatures and fruits, giving you a treasure-trove of references for your painting. This book also makes the perfect gift for artists of all ages, especially plant and animal lovers. Find the inspiration and technique to start your watercoloring adventures with this beautiful guide!

You Can Paint Vibrant Watercolors

You Can Paint Vibrant Watercolors
Author: Dan Burt
Publisher: Northlight
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Transparent watercolor painting
ISBN: 9780891349037

Follow along with 11 complete painting demonstrations to learn effective techniques for keeping your colors bright and beautiful!--Jacket.

Painting Vibrant Watercolors

Painting Vibrant Watercolors
Author: Soon Y. Warren
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2009-04-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440317429

Paint Watercolors that Shine! Make the most of watercolor's fresh, vibrant nature through light, color and contrast. In the first few chapters, artist Soon Y. Warren helps you lay the groundwork - everything from choosing and lighting subjects to color theory and perspective. Then, follow along with a thrilling series of step-by-step demonstrations to put your ideas into action for paintings that shine! • Learn how color, value, contrast and composition affect the impact of your paintings • Discover the plans and techniques you'll need for successful, realistic watercolors • Follow 16 demonstrations to create brilliant paintings • Paint a variety of subjects, including still life, landscapes, water scenes, flowers, architecture and animals This book is the perfect balance of classic theory and hands-on technique. Engaging and easy-to-follow instruction gives you a solid foundation so you can take your work to the next level as you create dynamic paintings.