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The quick way to watercolor success is here! If you have ever
wanted to learn to paint animals, then this is for you. Part
of the bestselling Absolute Beginner Art series from Search Press.
Packed easy-to-follow techniques, quick exercises and 9 outlines
– so there’s no need to draw anything - let best-selling
author, artist and teacher Matthew Palmer show you how to use
watercolors with confidence to paint a range of animals
in simple steps. Matthew expertly demonstrates how to paint
realistic eyes, mouths, noses, fur markings and feathers
in watercolor, and clearly explains all the techniques needed
for the projects, including wet into wet, lifting out, adding
shadows and the all-important dry-brush blending. Full-size,
fold-out outline sketches are provided for all projects, allowing
you to simply trace the sketches onto watercolor paper
and start painting with ease. A clear and
comprehensive color-mixing section is included to allow you
to confidently choose and mix the colors you
need. 3 starter projects to start you off with a simple: Bird
Dolphin Penguin - are the perfect introduction to the basic
techniques before moving on to 6 larger projects, each set in a
simple scene: Parrot Cheetah Panda Giraffes Sea turtle Polar bear.
Matthew includes many handy hints and tip for beginners and
improving artists alike to fill you with confidence to create your
own stunning watercolor animals.
Let this innovative and indispensable book be your painting
companion: simply dip in and out whenever you need advice and
guidance from best-selling author, Matthew Palmer. Start with
watercolour basics and learn to plan successful pictures, then
select expert guidance, tips for success, and beginner-friendly
troubleshooting from within the sections on flowers, trees,
buildings, water, people and wildlife. Discover how to make your
moonlit sky really glow; learn how to paint lush, realistic
foliage; add believable figures; and create driving rain and
sparkling water. Unique to this book are Matthew's key mix
swatches. These allow you to achieve perfect results every time;
explaining the colours you need and in what proportion. The paint
mix is shown both wet and dry, so you can compare your palette with
the wet mix, and know what it'll look like once applied. The dry
swatches stretch to the edge of the page, so you can also simply
hold the book up to the object you're painting, find a colour match
and create the right mix with ease. The book also includes a
pull-out picture finder, which will help you create the best
composition from the scene in front of you, isolate and identify a
colour, try different picture formats and help with proportion and
size. Designed to aid you whilst painting either indoors or out,
the small format and hard cover make the book easy to transport and
to store with the rest of your painting kit.
Learn to paint colourful watercolours using only three colours in
this collection of projects, tips and techniques from the
innovative Take Three Colours series. Each of the 25 projects
explores a variety of watercolour techniques and walks the reader
through a sequence of clear steps using a selection of three pure
colours and their many mixes, and only three brushes to complete
the work. Project themes include landscapes, seascapes, flowers,
mountains, lakes and rivers and snow scenes. There is also a
comprehensive glossary at the end of the book, exploring some of
the most commonly used terms and techniques featured in the book.
In Watercolour Landscapes for the Absolute Beginner, artist and
teacher Matthew Palmer guides beginners through their first steps
in watercolour and shows what incredible landscapes can be achieved
in this exciting medium. Step-by-step exercises, mini projects and
six longer projects help you to build essential skills and allow
you to produce a range of landscapes you will be proud of. Vital
drawing skills are explained and demonstrated, along with key
techniques such as how to use resists; colour mixing; painting
natural-looking foliage; using the dry-brush technique to create
intricate detail, and using scratch-out techniques to add sparkle
and movement to water. The exercises are ideal for beginners and
the main projects will also build skills for improving artists.
Matthew has an accessible style, with plenty of tips and tricks for
beginners to make things easier. A huge wealth of finished
paintings provide ideas and inspiration for your own future
watercolour landscapes. Full-size pull-out outlines are provided
for the final projects. Includes material previously published in
Matthew Palmer's Step-by-Step Guide to Watercolour Painting (2018),
but with the addition of three brilliant new projects, many new
illustrations and extensive textual revisions.
One of NPR's Best Books of 2014! After witnessing a devastating
incident in Darfur, Alex Baines is stripped of his security
clearance and relegated to a desk job. He's about to resign when
his former mentor-now the current Ambassador to the Congo-offers
him an opportunity to start over. But the post isn't what Alex
imagined. The US company Consolidated Mining seems to be
everywhere. When a hostage situation involving a survey team
arises, Alex is sent in, finding himself in the middle of the
conflict with a guerilla leader and Marie Tsiolo, a native
geologist on the team. As violence escalates in the region, Alex
struggles to balance the interests of the U.S. with the greater
good of the people of the Congo-and somehow stay alive.
This complete beginner's guide to painting animals and birds is
ideal if you want to learn to paint in watercolour but are short on
time. Broken down into 32 quick and easy paintings measuring just
15 x 10cm (6 x 4in), this basic course will teach you all the
skills you need to paint domestic and wild animals and birds, in
home settings or in nature. Best-selling author Matthew Palmer
shows you how to paint a diverse range of animals and birds,
including a parrot, cat, dog, zebra, stag, cow and swan, and
teaches you how to paint realistic markings, fur and feathers, and
how to create faces filled with character and personality. Tracings
are provided for all the paintings, including the three projects at
the end of the book. Simply trace them off onto your watercolour
paper and paint with confidence, without the need to make an
initial drawing. Each painting takes just 30 minutes to complete
and teaches you a different technique, so by the end of the book
you will be equipped with all the skills you need to complete one
of the three full-size projects: a King Charles cavalier spaniel, a
snow leopard and a hummingbird.
'There's no grandstanding or showmanship, just solid, honest
instructions and demonstrations that produce solid, worthwhile
results.' Artbookreview.net Paint convincing watercolour mountain
scenes using just 3 colours, 3 brushes, a palette and a pad of
paper. From only 3 affordable watercolour paints in red, blue and
yellow you can mix a huge range of colours and paint beautiful
landscapes you'll be proud to hang on your wall. Starting from the
simplest of mountain scenes, Matthew builds your skills as you
progress through the 9 easy projects in the book, and by the end
you'll be amazed at what you have achieved. Clear instructions and
step-by-step photographs show you how to add detail, shadow and
distance to a scene, and there are numerous handy tips and helpful
'jargon busters' to help you learn the basic watercolour
techniques. Before you know it, you'll have acquired all the skills
you need to paint your own wonderful mountain scenes in
watercolour. Matthew uses French ultramarine, cadmium yellow and
alizarin crimson and sizes 12, 6 and 2 round brushes.
But Sam soon discovers that for all their similarities, the
government and their hired contractors have vastly different
motives. As he struggles to adjust to a more corporate,
profit-driven version of the work that had been his life, he
stumbles across an intelligence anomaly - the transcript of a phone
conversation about the fastest ways to upend the delicate political
balance keeping India and Pakistan from all-out war. Yet Sam knows
that conversation can't have occurred because he is having an
affair with one of the alleged participants. As he digs into the
source of this misinformation, he realises there is more at stake
than just bad intel. Someone is deliberately twisting the
intelligence to stoke the simmering conflict between India and
Pakistan, nuclear-armed rivals that have already fought multiple
wars. And Sam's new employer could be at the centre of it.
This comprehensive step-by-step guide to producing landscapes and
seascapes in watercolour is a natural progression in learning from
Matthew Palmer's previous title Watercolour for the Absolute
Beginner. Providing a more complete course in painting, this latest
book explores in further detail the key techniques used in
watercolour painting, including the application of resists; colour
mixing; applying natural-looking foliage to trees and woodlands;
use of dry-brush technique in depicting intricate detail, and using
scratch-out techniques to add sparkle and movement to water. A
six-step exercise helps demonstrate the stages of creating a
landscape scene of snowy hills and dales - including laying the
initial wash, lifting out highlights on the hills, and applying
shadow. The book also features five full step-by-step projects to
help readers develop their watercolour painting skills, featuring a
waterfall scene, a poppy field with country cottage and New York in
autumn-time; each accompanied with a full-size outline. Matthew
Palmer's Step-by-Step Guide to Watercolour Painting is the perfect
companion for artists who have mastered the rudiments of the medium
but are keen to improve their skills, develop their own style, and
progress further on their journey to painting success.
This book is a comprehensive course in watercolour landscape
painting by expert SAA tutor, Matthew Palmer. Matthew is renowned
for his beautiful, detailed paintings and his ability to teach
effective painting using simple techniques. He teaches over 150
pupils per week and also appears regularly on TV. The book begins
with excellent advice for the beginner, including, easy drawing for
painting, composition, easy perspective, light and shade, colour,
and how to paint skies, tree, water and figures in watercolour.
There are then six simple step by step painting exercises, and each
exercise leads into a more developed step by step painting project,
including a windmill, seascape, snow scene, mountains and lakes,
bluebell stream and an all-rounder featuring a landscape with
buildings and figures. The exercises are ideal for beginners and
the main projects will also build skills for improving artists. A
pull-out outline drawing is provided for every exercise and main
project, and Matthew shows step by step how to transfer these onto
watercolour paper. Like best-selling artist, Terry Harrison,
Matthew has an accessible style, plenty of tips and tricks for
beginners and his own range of brushes and colours to make things
easier (though readers can use alternatives).
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