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Geoff's Top Tips for Watercolour Artists
by Geoff Kersey

Publisher: Search Press
Edition: Spiral Bound

ISBN: 9781844484690

This book is available for pre-order. It is expected in stock on 16 August 2010.

In a handy pocket-sized book Geoff Kersey shares his expertise in this book packed full of tips for watercolour painters. Learn all you need to know, from what to buy, composing a painting and mastering techniques such as wet into wet and dry brush work, to how to paint skies, water, trees, buildings and more. The tips are clearly explained and illustrated through artwork and step by step photographs.

Price: £9.99

Pouring Light
by Jean Grastorf

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Paperback

This liberating guide to pouring transparent watercolour makes this unusual technique achievable and enjoyable. Here, the author breaks down her innovative 'pouring' process with visual guidance that includes: beginning-to-end instruction; four full-length demos and multiple mini-demos that show how to build strong light-based compositions; detailed shots to create transparent colour and translucent glazes; design summary sidebars; and, paintings from contributing artists that show how to apply this technique to many different styles. Watercolourists of all levels will learn to capture the elusive qualities of light in their own work.
Price: £14.99

Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines
by Linda Kemp

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Paperback

This is the only title on the market that gives readers a comprehensive look at negative painting. Linda Kemp shows beginning and advanced artists how to harness the power of these often overlooked areas around a painting's focal point. The book is brimming with easy-to-follow, interactive elements, including: step-by-step techniques, exercises and projects, do-it-yourself tests and worksheets, troubleshooting suggestions and secrets, and straightforward diagrams for color and design.
Price: £14.99

Quick & Clever Watercolour Pencils
by Charles Evans

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Publisher David & Charles
Edition Paperback

Loaded with quick, simple and effective techniques for tackling any subject in watercolour pencils, from still life and landscapes to animals and people. Written in a clear and approachable style, this book is suitable for the beginner who will learn to create vibrant finished paintings they can hang on their walls in the quickest possible time. It includes exercises and projects for dry pencil, wet pencil, washes, fine details and using pens to enhance paintings. This is the second book from popular no-nonsense TV watercolourist Charles Evans.
Price: £12.99

Charles Reid's Watercolour Solutions
by Charles Reid

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Hardback

An invaluable glimpse into the teaching methods of master painter Charles Reid that will enable readers to identify problems in their own work and learn how to solve them. Example situations and problems are presented, alongside Reid's easy-to-follow solutions. Each example is demonstrated by genuine amateur artwork from the author's past workshops, with Reid highlighting the positive things the student has done, as well as areas for improvement. Reid also adds corrective sketches, and features his own versions of the problematic paintings to illustrate achievable solutions. Features detailed shots, step-by-step demonstrations, before and after details, colour swatches, value scales and other visual tools to enable each reader to tackle any imaginable watercolour problem and dramatically improve their finished paintings.
Price: £18.99

A Celebration of Light
by Jane Freeman

Publisher North Light
Edition Hardback

Light makes fruit shine, crystal glimmer and flowers dance. It brings life to your paintings with exquisite texture and radiant color. This book takes the mystery out of painting the glorious effects of light - from maximising the drama in your still life set-up, to painting shadows that glow, to achieving a wonderful range of textures, step-by-step.The impressive, highly realistic effects inside may look complex, but the techniques behind them are actually very straightforward - and eliminate the hassle of working with messy masking fluid. You can use the same simple approach for any subject, for results that really shine.
Price: £18.99

Artist's Studio: Watercolour Textures
by Ann Blockley

Publisher Harper Collins
Edition Hardback

Watercolour Textures is for all those artists who already have some experience of watercolour painting but who wish to explore this versatile medium by experimenting with unusual techniques for portraying texture. Written by well-known professional artist Ann Blockley and beautifully illustrated with her original watercolours, this inspirational book provides the much needed next step that so many practised beginners have been looking for.
Price: £17.99

Encyclopedia of Colour for Watercolour Artists
by Jan Hart

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

There are hundreds of watercolour paints on the market, with widely varying characteristics, appearances and names. This easy-to-use book cuts through the confusion and allows you to identify those that are best suited to your style of work and build a balanced palette of exceptional colours. You'll also find information on choosing and using a wide range of creative palettes, each with an explanation of the colours and their qualities, advice on mixing, and a step-by-step painting demonstration.
Price: £12.99

Exploring Watercolor
by Elizabeth Groves

Publisher North Light
Edition Hardback

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. For beginning artists and experienced painters alike, "Exploring Watercolor" offers a new and exciting creative outlet.
Price: £18.99

Learn to Paint: Light and Shade in Watercolour
by Hazel Soan

Publisher Harper Collins
Edition Paperback

All painters want to know how to portray light successfully to create atmospheric and dramatic effects, and this book looks 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.This practical, easy to follow book offers beginners expert tuition in this essential aspect of painting - plus the encouragement and information you need to progress in your favourite medium and take your painting further.
Price: £9.99

Successful and Creative Washes
by Barry Herniman

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

Watercolours are ideal for creating light, fresh and spontaneous paintings, and this book shows you how to maximise the effects you can achieve. Barry Herniman helps you to fill your paintings with light and colour, using quick and simple watercolour techniques. Try out your new skills in five varied and inspirational step-by-step projects, including a glorious sunset, a peaceful bridge scene and a romantic evening by the church.
Price: £9.99

The Artist's Essential Guide to Watercolour
by Gerald Green

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Hardback

An essential book for anyone who has learnt the basics of watercolour and wants to develop their own dynamic style.The author's unique approach of simplicity, directness and accuracy shows how to create artwork full of personal expression and vitality.Energetic step demonstrations, resulting in remarkable finished paintings, inspire the imagination and stimulates individual creativity.Subject matter including international street scenes, still lifes and life studies ensures topics like movement, light and atmosphere are thoroughly explored.
Price: £18.99

The Landscape Painter's Essential Handbook
by Joe Francis Dowden

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Paperback

A unique artist's reference offering easy to follow, ingenious ideas, tips and techniques for painting 50 popular landscapes in watercolour.The 50 landscapes range from a gentle flower-filled meadow and hazy summer mountains to a dramatic cliff scene and rippling stream in sunshine.Each landscape is explored within a hardworking spread through exercises, step sequences and easy to follow instructions; master the principle and technique, and finish with the watercolour painting exercise.A comprehensive introductory section covering basic materials, techniques and colours makes this an indispensable reference for all artists.
Price: £12.99

Light and Mood in Watercolour
by David Curtis with Robin Capon

Publisher Batsford
Edition Paperback

A wonderfully fresh, direct and versatile medium, watercolour is ideal for capturing the transient effects of light. The compact and lightweight material is the perfect medium for plein-air painting.David Curtis works in all weather conditions, observing and capturing changing conditions and effects. He provides helpful instruction on interpreting light effects, with strong guidance on choosing materials, exploring techniques, composition, tone and colour. This is complemented by a wealth of sketches, finished works and step-by-step demonstration paintings to inspire further ideas.
Price: £14.99

Watercolour Tips & Techniques
by Various

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

This richly illustrated, highly informative compilation of four of the successful Watercolour Tips & Techniques books explores the versatility and beauty of watercolours in depth. With 20 detailed step-by-step demonstrations and a wealth of information, the authors cover every aspect of this exciting medium in an easy-to-follow, inspirational way. This book is an invaluable addition to any artist's library, with the authors revealing the secrets and delights of capturing many different subjects from early morning landscapes to rural buildings, seascapes and more.
Price: £19.99

The Watercolour Waterscape Painter's Pocket Palette
by Joe Francis Dowden

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

Step-by-step demonstrations for painting over 50 types of seascape detail. Easy to use painting reference to help you capture at a glance the essence of the sea. Learn how to manipulate paint to produce textures and patterns perfect for seascape painting. Detailed drawings illustrate the basic structure of different seascape subjects.
Price: £8.99

Watercolour Basics: Perspective Secrets
by Phil Metzger

Publisher North Light
Edition Paperback

If you want to learn the secrets to creating depth and realism in your watercolour paintings, take a look inside this book. You will find easy tricks for fooling the eye into seeing your paintings in three dimensions - from the basic rules of linear perspective to size and space variations, overlapping, aerial perspective and other techniques. Everything is explained in simple language, with step-by-step demonstrations showing how to apply the principles to a variety of subjects. With this clear and practical instruction, it is easier than you might think to put your paintings into perspective.
Price: £12.99

Bryan Thatcher's Wet-into-Wet
by Bryan Thatcher

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

Soft, flowing effects for atmospheric skies, rivers, seas and landscapes in watercolour are made easy when you learn the secrets of 'wet-into-wet' - painting freely with wet washes, blending and merging colours on the paper. Well-known artist Bryan A. Thatcher, who specialises in this popular technique, demonstrates in step-by-step action sequences how to manipulate the flow of colour on wet paper to create beautiful, effortless-looking effects.
Price: £7.99

Brush with Watercolour
by Terry Harrison

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

Using a range of brushes, he demonstrates how simple it is to create all the different landscape elements - from skies, trees, bushes and hedgerows to footpaths, fields, water and reflections. With many hot tips and a wealth of practical advice, he presents an inspiring sequence of step-by-step demonstrations which aim to build up skills and encourage the artist to create their own original paintings.
Price: £12.99

Collins Gem: 10-minute Watercolours
by Hazel Soan

Publisher Harper Collins
Edition Paperback

A handy, practical and inspirational little book - perfect for the pocket or art bag - showing watercolour painters of all levels how to loosen up their paintings and maintain spontaneity. Written by popular artist Hazel Soan, the book is arranged in two parts: the first section explains all about watercolour and shows what can be achieved with it in a short time span; the second section suggests specific approaches to painting in particular situations.
Price: £4.99

Creative Watercolour Techniques
by Richard Bolton

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

Watercolour is a challenging and exciting medium with its loose washes and beautiful colours. Richard Bolton explores its versatility and shows how to create a whole range of effects, from dry on dry brushwork and wet into wet, to splattering, scumbling and split brush techniques. Using over sixty step-by-step photographs, he demonstrates how to paint texture, atmosphere, reflections, light and shade. Both beginners and artists with some experience will find this a valuable and inspirational guide
Price: £6.99

The Watercolourist's Nature Journal
by Jill Bays

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Paperback

Keeping a watercolour journal of the natural world is an excellent way to build up your confidence as a watercolourist, to start a collection of images as reference for future paintings, and to celebrate the natural world. This book gives season-by-season guidance on how to portary and record plants, flowers, animals, birds and landscapes, and shows how to use a sketchbook to collect material as a resource for creating complete watercolours.
Price: £12.99

Don Harrison's Top Watercolour Techniques
by Don Harrison

Publisher Harper Collins
Edition Hardback

The key to a successful watercolour painting is good planning. Here Don Harrison presents a series of practical painting projects which show how to plan and develop successful landscape paintings. Covering a wide range of subjects, including coastal scenes, country views, buildings, lakes, rivers and bridges, and with plenty of straightforward advice, this is an ideal book for practised beginners wishing to further their painting skills.
Price: £14.99

The Encyclopedia of Watercolour Techniques
by Hazel Harrison

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

Watercolour is an enormously popular painting medium and an increasing number of artists are choosing it in preference to other mediums, exploiting it in inventive and creative ways for every possible subject. This book covers the subject of watercolour in the broad sense of the term, suggesting ways of working with gouache and acrylic as well as explaining the time-honoured technique associated with transparent watercolour.
Price: £12.99

From Sketch to Painting
by Wendy Jelbert

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

Wendy Jelbert begins this book by asking the question 'why sketch?'. Her answer is that it is the best way to record inspirational scenes and to capture special moments. Through a series of step-by-step projects Wendy demonstrates how to develop your sketching skills and to transform a sketch into a finished painting. Everything is covered from capturing detail, composition and texture to making the most of your sketchbooks. Many of Wendy's finished paintings and the sketches that inspired them are included throughout the book.
Price: £9.99

Keeping a Watercolour Sketchbook
by Brenda Swenson

Publisher Walter Foster Publishing
Edition Paperback

Discover the benefits and rewards of this versatile artist's tool. In this unique title, successful watercolorist Brenda Swenson offers an in-depth look at the techniques that go into keeping a watercolor sketchbook, as well as the inspirations behind the art form. The full color, 64-page explores every aspect of keeping a watercolor sketchbook, from effectively mixing natural colors and setting up a strong composition, to turning your initial sketches into finished paintings.
Price: £6.99

Laying a Watercolour Wash
by Frank Halliday

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

Using over 70 step-by-step photographs and a variety of inspirational paintings, Frank Halliday shows how to paint washes and how to use them to create atmosphere, tone, form and shape. Skies, landscapes and waterscapes can all be washed on to the paper and the merging colours allowed to run into each other to create sunsets, mountains, distant mists, fields, rivers, seas and reflections. Practical advice is given on the materials you need, how to start, using a limited palette, composition and perspective. Whatever your skill level, you will be able to develop your own style with this invaluable book.
Price: £6.99

Light in Watercolour
by Jackie Barrass

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

The glowing transparency and sponteneity of watercolour makes it an ideal medium with which to interpret the qualities of light. Jacqueline demonstrates how you can capture the beauty of sunlight, lamplight, morning and evening light - and how to add soft highlights, build up atmosphere and develop unusual textures. With transparent washes and subtle uses of vibrant and luminous colours, she creates a series of paintings that are full of character and appeal.
Price: £6.99

Wendy Jelbert's Line and Wash
by Wendy Jelbert

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

The methods of merging soft luminous washes with the crisp, definite markings of penwork, are made easy with this book. Each stage of the painting process is illustrated using step-by-step photographs and beautiful finished paintings. You can choose a bold effect or a delicate pastel approach, a drawing or painting, in monumental or miniature scale. The wonderful flexibility of line and wash can accommodate many tastes; it is an inexpensive technique which can be worked during any spare moment, on your lap or at a table, and is an excellent way of capturing texture and detail in the landscape, the delicate linework in flowers and leaves, or the linear beauty of buildings.
Price: £7.99

Mix Your Own Watercolours
by John Lidzey

Publisher Walter Foster Publishing
Edition Paperback
Price: £6.99

Mixing Greens
by Michael Wilcox

Publisher School of Colour Publishing
Edition Paperback
Price: £9.95

Paint Watercolours that Dance With Light
by Elizabeth Kincaid

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Paperback

Learn simple techniques to combine watercolour paints and masking fluid to create vivid paintings infused with light. Simple step-by-step demonstrations guide the artist to create incredible paintings using bright watercolours. by following a selection of basic techniques, suitable for any artist, the reader can discover how to use watercolours to create loose and realistic paintings. Elizabeth's incredibly effective techniques use masking fluid and layers of paint to create crisp edges and stunning colours.
Price: £12.99

Painting Light and Shade in Watercolour
by Patricia Seligman

Publisher Search Press
Edition Hardback

Every practicing artist, whether amateur or professional, knows that precise control of light and shade is essential in demonstrating mastery of their art. This book shows you the many ways in which you can add dimension and energy to your watercolour paintings. In-the-field notebook features demonstrate how to see and interpret tonal values in the context of themes - balancing contrasts, keeping colours vibrant or keying values - allowing you to produce paintings shimmering with light.
Price: £16.99

Painting Mood and Atmosphere
by Barry Herniman

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

The glowing transparency and sponteneity of watercolour makes it an ideal medium for exploring the effects of sunlight, shadows, mist, stormy skies and more. Easy techniques for creating realistic effects are demonstrated in a series of stunning demonstrations. In his enthusiastic and practical manner, Barry Herniman guides you through all the different stages, revealing paintings rich in atmosphere, from tranquil river scenes and misty woodlands to dramatic landscapes and inspiring seascapes.
Price: £9.99

Painting with Watercolours
by William Newton

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

William Newton provides an inspirational and practical guide to painting beautiful watercolours and shows how to capture the exciting qualities of this wonderful medium. Using over 60 step-by-step photographs he illustrates all the basic techniques, explaining how to create transparent washes, luminous colours, light, shade and atmosphere. The book takes you through all the stages of painting a picture, from simple brush strokes to final details. Whatever your skill level you will be able to develop your own style using the demonstrations and exercises featured in these pages.
Price: £6.99

Pen and Wash
by Robert Jennings

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

The methods of merging soft luminous washes with the crisp, definite markings of penwork, are made easy with this book. Each stage of the painting process is illustrated using step-by-step photographs and beautiful finished paintings.
Price: £6.99

Perspective Depth & Distance
by Geoff Kersey

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

From sketches through to final paintings, Geoff Kersey shows how to incorporate linear and arial perspective, how to create depth and distance with light and shade, and how to breath a sense of realism into a picture.
Fields, trees, roads, rivers, bridges, buildings, harbours - whatever the subject you will need to learn about perspective, depth and distance.
Price: £9.99

Plein Air Painting in Watercolout
by Scott Burdick

Publisher Walter Foster Publishing
Edition Paperback

Discover the secrets of painting en plein air! No matter what your level of artistic expertise, painting outdoors can be an exciting and refreshing adventure. In this book, follow award-winning plein air artist Scott Burdick as he guides you step by step through 12 compelling lessons and introduces his own approach to watercolor painting along the way.
Price: £6.99

The Watercolorist's Answer Book
by Gina Rath

Publisher North Light
Edition Paperback

The Watercolorist's Answer Book features 425 popular tips, techniques and solutions selected from North Light's industry-leading library of watercolour instruction books. This authoritative guide to the art of watercolour features the combined expertise of eight successful professional artists. No question, The Watercolorist's Answer Book is a book every watercolour painter will want.
Price: £15.99

The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook
by Gordon MacKenzie

Publisher North Light
Edition Hardback

A collection of principles, concepts and general information to simplify painting with watercolour.
Price: £15.99

The Watercolour Artist's Bible
by Marilyn Scott

Publisher Search Press
Edition Hardback

Master the art of watercolour painting with this comprehensive and compact take-anywhere guidebook. Over 100 step-by-step sequences demonstrate how to paint a wide range of subjects, from landscapes to buildings, people, and still life. Learn key techniques of the watercolour artist, from composition, brushwork and blending, to special effects like stippling and adding lustre.
Price: £12.99

The Watercolour Artist's Colour Mixing Bible
by Moira Clinch

Publisher Search Press
Edition Hardback

A visual guide to over 2000 mixes and glaze effects. This easy-to-use directory explains colour theory and demonstrates a range of mixing techniques. It features over 50 specially selected colours that, when used together with a basic palette, afford the artist more than 1000 mixing options. Provides up-to-date information on colour-fast and environmentally-friendly pigments. Inspirational examples show how to use a wide range of colour mixes to great effect.
Price: £17.99

The Watercolour Painter's Pocket Palette
by Moira Clinch

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

This richly illustrated book contains all you need to know about mixing colours. You can see at a glance how to achieve the colour mix you want, and just as importantly you can see when a mix is not appropriate for a particular effect. This is a classic book, which was originally published in spiral bound hardback in 1991.
Price: £8.99

Watercolour: Planning and Painting
by Alan Oliver

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback
Price: £11.99

Watercolor & Acrylic Painting Materials
by William F

Publisher Walter Foster Publishing
Edition Paperback
Price: £6.99

Watercolour Innovations
by Jackie Simmonds

Publisher Harper Collins
Edition Hardback

Watercolour Innovations focuses on the work of 8 of today's leading professional artists - Michael Morgan, Jackie Devereux, Ray Evans, Richard Plincke, Catherine Brennand, Roger Dellar, Terry McKivragan and Laura Reiter - all known for their innovative approach to watercolour painting. It also includes a number of features to encourage practised artists to take the next step in their own watercolour painting.
Price: £17.99

Watercolour Pencil Step by Step
by Pat Averill

Publisher Walter Foster Publishing
Edition Paperback

This is the perfect introductory guide for aspiring artists who want to learn the captivating art of watercolor pencil. Each project includes full-color examples and detailed instructions, wherein the artists share their own methods and techniques for using watercolor pencil. Both beginning and accomplished artists will find an abundance of inspiration for creating their own original artwork with watercolor pencil, making this book a welcome addition to any painter's library!
Price: £6.99

Watercolour Tips and Tricks
by Zoltan Szabo

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Paperback

Sunlit scenes, frosted trees, dramatic clouds and tumbling water - these are just a few landscape elements which all watercolorists will find themselves painting at one time or another. Here well-known artist and instructor Zoltan Szabo demonstrates a range of easy-to-use techniques for painting popular subjects with complete confidence. Gathering together over seventy of his effective tips and tricks, this practical book will enable you to learn and apply them in the right ways to create fresh and original watercolours time after time.
Price: £12.99

Watercolour Troubleshooter
by Don Harrison

Publisher Harper Collins
Edition Paperback

Watercolour is a wonderfully expressive medium but learning to master it can prove challenging. Many amateur painters encounter the same practical problems time and time again. In Watercolour Troubleshooter Don Harrison considers all the common pitfalls and provides straightforward and often innovative solutions. Using an entertaining and easy-to-follow question and answer style, he offers practical advice on a wide range of topics. Invaluable for beginners, but also full of tips for the more experienced painter, Watercolour Troubleshooter offers painters of all standards the key to achieving their true potential, and to enjoying their painting more.
Price: £12.99

Wet-on-Wet Watercolour Painting
by Ewa Karpinska

Publisher New Holland
Edition Paperback

Wet-on-Wet Watercolour Painting offers practical answers to the most frequently asked questions and provides clear and sound advice on all the wet-on-wet watercolour techniques. Ideal for those with a basic grasp of watercolour painting, this is the perfect follow-up to the previous book in the series, Watercolour Painting.
Price: £12.99

Painting Expressive Watercolours
by Mike Chaplin

Publisher Harper Collins
Edition Paperback

This superbly illustrated book by Mike Chaplin, well-known art expert on TV's Watercolour Challenge, is intended for artists with some painting experience who wish to develop their technique, style and outlook. Featuring a wide range of subjects, from the natural landscape to urban scenes, as well as practical advice, useful tips, special features and step-by-step demonstrations, it offers a unique combination of instruction, inspiration and insight into the work of this popular painter.
Price: £12.99

Still Life in Watercolour
by David Webb

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

David Webb provides an inspirational and practical guide to painting beautiful still life pictures in watercolours and shows how to capture the exciting qualities of this wonderful medium. Using many step-by-step photographs he illustrates all the basic techniques, explaining how to paint reflective surfaces, smooth surfaces, textures and more. Whatever your skill level you will be able to develop your own style using the demonstrations and exercises featured in these pages.
Price: £6.99

Watercolour
by Duane R

Publisher Walter Foster Publishing
Edition Paperback
Price: £6.99

Working with Watercolour
by Ray Campbell Smith

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

Misty landscapes, vibrant flowers, mountain lakes and sunlit lanes - these and many more subjects are presented in this practical, easy-to-follow book, in which a selection of well-known artists interpret what they see. This book teaches you all you need to know to 'get started', with practical, detailed step-by-step demonstrations, inspirational paintings and plenty of advice on how to keep your work full of freshness and vitality.
Price: £12.99

Pocket Watercolours: Clouds & Skies
by Richard Taylor

Publisher Collins & Brown
Edition Spiral-bound Hardback

Clouds and skies, with their dramatic displays of light, rapidly changing moods and luminous effects of color, are an immensely challenging subject ideally suited to watercolour’s ability to suggest light breaking through atmospheric layers. Packed with dozens of different cloud and sky studies, from intimate sketches of wispy cirrus strands to full-blown images of the majestic anvil-shaped, storm-bearing cumulonimbus, Clouds and Skies shows how to depict the tiny details as well as capturing magnificent sky-scapes.
Price: £8.99

Watercolour Solutions
by Albany Wiseman

Publisher Collins & Brown
Edition Hardback

What is the best brush for laying a flat wash? What is wet-into-wet technique and how is it achieved? How can I paint moving water? What is the best colour mix for natural flesh tones? Watercolour Solutions gives you the answers to these and dozens more similar questions, all relevant to the aspiring watercolour artist and all profusely illustrated with examples and step by step images where appropriate. Many questions are open-ended, such as, what is the best paper to use for a watercolour? Increasing the methods and techniques shown well beyond the original 101 questions.
Price: £17.99

Artists' Questions Answered: Watercolours
by David Norman

Publisher A & C Black
Edition Paperback

These titles are aimed as guides that answer all the questions which artists have about getting the best results from their chosen medium. Laid out in a user-friendly way, the books are styled in a question-and-answer format, illustrated with correct and incorrect ways of using the tools and getting the most from different techniques. The authors tackle the problems that serious beginners and amateur artists are likely to encounter and offer a variety of solutions.
Price: £12.99

Being Bold with Watercolour
by Annette Kane

Publisher Batsford
Edition Hardback

Watercolour is celebrated for its ability to produce subtle, variegated washes, but it is possible to use watercolour as boldly and powerfully as in any other medium, and the wonderfully vibrant paintings of Annette Kane demonstrate this pefectly. Her book covers a range of techniques and advice from colour theory and mixing colours to choosing the right technique for the right subject matter to how to experiment and work adventurously. The emphasis is on bold brushwork and strong colour, and she is not afraid to combine or enhance her effects in watercolour with other elements, such as ink, acrylic and gouache. With a number of step-by-step demonstrations in addition to stunning finished paintings, the book gives every painter the confidence to be bold in watercolour.
Price: £17.99

Watercolour Secrets
by Charles Reid

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Paperback

This work is a glimpse into actual sketchbooks used by master painter Charles Reid for the past 25 years. It gives the reader an insight into Reid's artwork, giving a critique of the work in his sketchbook - what works, what doesn't and, most importantly, why. Each illustration is presented as it appears in the sketchbook and is annotated to demonstrate how each effect has been achieved. The book also includes five step-by-step demonstrations in which Charles recreates some of his sketches, revealing further his approaches, inspirations and techniques.
Price: £12.99

Master Disaster: Five Ways to Rescue Desperate Watercolours
by Susan Webb Tregay

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Hardback

In five simple, unique steps, Sue Tregay shows the reader how to change their mediocre paintings into spectacular works of art: lighten up, break it up, enrich it, and unify it. The book contains valuable advice on producing competition-quality art, what judges want and how to frame your work, which are things all artists need to know to turn their hobby into a money-making venture. The book's workshop feel and conversational writing, as well as several step-by-step demonstrations, many helpful side-bars, eight ideas for further growth and a painting that evolves with each of the five steps to improvement, will ensure that readers are able to complete stunning watercolour paintings.
Price: £18.99

Terry's Top Tips for Watercolour Artists
by Terry Harrison

Publisher Search Press
Edition Hardback

Easy tips for buying and using materials, mixing colours, creating texture and correcting mistakes, as well as for painting skies, fields, trees, water, roofs, winter scenes and much more. Terry demystifies the painting process, reveals his secrets and shows how to produce perfect pictures every time.
Price: £9.99

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