Let a professional artist help you rescue your watercolour paintings in this Q&A-style guidebook that matches common problems and mistakes with proven solutions!
Watercolour painting is difficult to master, and even experienced artists are prone to making mistakes. As a longtime professional artist and teacher, Charles Evans has a huge bank of expert tips, tricks, and techniques for fixing and avoiding common problems in your watercolour paintings. These include:
How to remove “cauliflowers”
Where to place your water container to avoid spillages
What to do if one colour is bleeding into another
How to make distant hills lookwelldistant
Why you keep mixing muddy colour
And more!
Each problem begins with a question asked by one of Charles’ students, such as, “How do I stop my trees looking like lollipops?” Charles then provides an easy solutionplus a short demonstration of how to prevent the problem moving forward making this the perfect resource for those new to, or experienced in, watercolour painting!
Table of Contents
Introduction 6
Where to get help 8
Equipment 10
Techniques and composition 32
Colour mixing and water control 46
Achieving realism...
... in nature 62
... in buildings and structures 100
Endgame 122
Index 128
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About Charles Evans
Charles Evans studied at Lincoln Art College and has since developed a career in art, painting and teaching. Appearing regularly for ITV regional programmes, painting out on location, gave him plenty of practice in working under all conditions. Today, Charlie lives in Northumberland, England and travels the country, and abroad, taking his no-nonsense approach to painting to hundreds of amateur artists.
