Exploring Watercolor

Readers will learn to combine watercolour with other media to enhance their painting style, expand their creativity and improve their art-work."Exploring Watercolor" is filled with easy-to-use features, including charts and colour wheels, as well as more than 40 exercises and mini-demos. All exercises and demos can be completed multiple times, offering the reader varying results and endless opportunities.For beginning artists and experienced painters alike, "Exploring Watercolor" offers a new and exciting creative outlet.

Inside you'll find:

22 open-ended, step-by-step demonstrations designed so you can do them over and over again, using various combinations of colors, papers and techniques for a different result every time.

9 exercises illustrating expressive ways to put paint to paper.

A fun and inspiring sampler of texture-making techniques - including printing methods, resists, sprinkling, spattering, stencils and "paper torture" - for paintings that sing with vitality.

Wherever you are as an artist, this hands-on guide will help you master the watercolor medium, develop your individual style, and move beyond a literal rendering of your subject matter to a more meaningful and memorable interpretation that expresses your unique vision. So let go of your self-imposed limits, play with different ways of painting, and - above all - paint with passion and joy!