Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #91738 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Leisure Painter
`As ever, Hazel's text is easy to follow, and illustrated with a wide range of studies and paintings for inspiration. This book will help readers to see light through an artist's eye, and thereby allow them to create paintings with a greater sense of life and energy.'

The Artist, Feb 2008
An excellent little guide that packs in more than many much bigger books.

Synopsis
This is a new title in Collins' best-selling Learn to Paint series, by popular artist Hazel Soan, focusing on one of the most important aspects of painting -- how to portray light, atmosphere and mood in watercolour paintings. All painters want to know how to portray light successfully to create atmospheric and dramatic effects, and this book will look at a number of ways in which this can be achieved -- using specific watercolour techniques, creating highlights, using colour to determine mood and atmosphere, exploring the relationship between light and tone. Hazel Soan is one of the most popular of all teachers and in this book she provides invaluable guidelines for beginners to enable them to paint watercolours that are vibrant and full of life and light. With clear instructions, plenty of helpful llustrations and several step-by-step demonstration paintings, the book covers everything the beginner needs to know to paint successful light-filled watercolours.C

ONTENTS Portrait of an Artist Painting Light and Shade Materials Valuing Tone Seeing the Light Paint and Brushstrokes Highlights and Shadows Composing the Picture Perfecting the Shade Demo 1: In the Red Corner Demo 2: In the Olive Grove Demo 3: Mary in the Morning Light Demo 4: Paved with Gold