52 ESSENTIAL LESSONS FOR CREATING GREAT PAINTINGS!
North Light Book Club members tend to be the kind of folks who like to dive in and get their brushes wet. After all, the joy of art is in the doing...which works out rather nicely because that's where a lot of the learning happens, too! The more mileage on your brush, the better painter you become. This book offers essential lessons to get you up (fast!) and running (excitedly!) on your journey to watercolor expression!

Instead of trying to cover every single nuance of the medium, Watercolor Success! focuses on what you need to start painting now'no more, no less. Avoid the complicated color theories, convoluted 'rules' of composition, perplexing laws of perspective, and other potholes that threaten to take the air out of your tires or send you veering off course. In this book you'll find hardworking 'nuggets' of watercolor know-how--52 simple and effective lessons that will guide you surely and swiftly towards watercolor success.

25 Years of Painting Experience in 1 Book!
Watercolor Success! leads you through a series of simple and effective lessons that will give you a great running start'from the little, pivotal details like selecting your brushes and lighting your studio space...to technical stuff like how to lay down various types of washes...to the 'big ideas' like how to use simple elements of design to create appealing compositions. Lots of finished paintings and preliminary sketches make concepts fun to learn and easy to grasp.

'Aim High and Shoot Straight!'
Put all of these lessons together and what do you get' By the final chapter of this book you'll have all the painting know-how you'll need to evoke the beauty of watercolor'capture light and shadow, develop form and depth, depict a mood.

8 incredible step-by-step painting demonstrations get you painting'now! Each demo comes with a complete list of materials, including colors and brushes used, along with friendly and detailed instructions that put each scene well within your brushes' reach!

Once you start painting, once you see the magic happening at the end of your brush, you'll never want to stop! Enjoy the adventure!

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