"This beautifully illustrated instructional watercolor book will be perfect for beginning watercolor artists, artists who want to improve their watercolor skills, and visual creatives"-- This vibrant guide is filled with step-by-step instructions to get you started or build on your watercolour painting skills. Learn the tools and skills you need to create gifts, invitations, and wall art.

The world's greatest masterpieces explored and explained Great Paintings takes you on your own personal gallery tour of over 60 of the world's best-loved paintings. From works by Botticelli and Raphael to Salvador Dali and Frida Kahlo, the book covers the paintings that have shaken the art world across centuries and across continents. The story behind each painting is told, unlocking hidden meanings and symbols and over 700 photographs bring the pictures...

This new title in the Watercolor Basics series provides artists with all the step-by-step guidance they need to bring people and portraits to life through the beauty of watercolor. From achieving proper proportion to rendering skin tones, author Butch Krieger makes mastering the basics--value, shape, line and color--a snap. Seventeen complete demonstrations and thirteen mini demos take readers through every step, everything from selecting materials...

"This book's eay-to-follow demonstrations and invaluable instruction on such painting fundamnetals as color, value and composition will appeal to even newer artists who want to explore this viable alternative to watercolor."-p. [2] of cover.

"One Painting A Day offers you an inspiring six-week course exploring the timeless traditions of observational painting through daily experience and routine. This motivational guide is broken up into three parts to focus on the three major traditions of observational painting: still life, landscape, and portraiture. Each of the 42 daily exercises launches a small, immediate, and responsive painting based on a theme drawn from your daily experience....