Product Description

This best-selling title will be relaunched in September 05 with a fresh new cover design. Hazel Soan, with her colourful and lively style of painting, offers an exciting, contemporary approach to working in watercolour, the most popular medium of all. Every painter wants to paint vibrant pictures but sometimes it can be difficult to capture that special quality on paper. In Learn to Paint Vibrant Watercolours Hazel Soan provides plenty of helpful advice on how to use watercolour in a bold and lively way, emphasizing the importance of using colour confidently, creating a strong composition, and evoking a powerful sense of atmosphere in your paintings. Contents include: / tips on choosing painting materials / clear, practical advice on watercolour techniques / guidelines on using colour effectively and creating atmosphere / a range of popular subjects, including landscapes, still life, flowers and people / stage-by-stage demonstration paintings

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #324962 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

About the Author
Hazel Soan is a successful international artist who divides her studio time between London and Cape Town, exhibiting her work widely. She is the author of Learn to Paint Vibrant Watercolours, Collins Painting Workshop: Flowers in Watercolour, What Shall I Paint? and African Watercolours, and regularly contributes articles to art magazines. She has made several successful videos on painting, as well as a number of radio and TV appearances both in the UK and abroad. She was one of the art experts on the popular Channel 4 series Watercolour Challenge.

Customer Reviews

Useful and inspiring
Hazel Soan's enthusiasm and talent shine through in the beautiful pictures in this book. The subject is how to achieve crisp, clean watercolours with a minimum of fuss. Hazel emphasizes the importance of observation, patience and hard work: there are no shortcuts, but the quality of her work is a continual inspiration.

The book starts with materials, covers basic subjects such as shape and tone, and finishes with some demonstrations. It's a short book, but with a lot packed in. (The video of the same title is also well worth viewing.)

An exciting and fresh approach to watercolour painting
Hazel's enthusiasm for watercolour painting is evident on every page of this book. Her approach has something for everyone; beginners or the more experienced. I particularly liked the section that dealt with the use of colours and reserving white but there are useful tips throughout. A great book which has inspired me to improve my own technique.