10-Minute Watercolours (Collins Gem)电子书

Title Page

Dedication

Introduction

Part One: The Materials

Paints

Mixing Watercolour

Using the colours

Choosing your colours

Colour combinations

Brushes

Round brushes

Flat brushes

Mop brushes

Riggers

Paper

Palettes

China palettes

Enamel paintboxes

Plastic palettes

Miscellaneous Materials

Pencils and erasers

Water and rags

Summary

Part Two: Creative Zone

Exploring the Pigments

Reds

Blues

Yellows

Greens

Temperature of colours

Greys and darks

The limited palette

More than three colours

Understanding tone

Summary

Maximizing the Brushstroke

Using the round sable

Using the flat brush

Using the mop

Using the rigger

Making interesting shapes

Brushstrokes to create form

Brushstrokes for angular forms

Portraying movement

Blurring boundaries

Summary

Techniques for Speed

The right amount of water

Wet-in-wet technique

Creating backruns

Wet-in-wet with water

Wet beside wet

Dry brush

Wet-on-dry technique

Combining techniques

Spongeing

Wax resist

Fanning brush hairs

Spatter

Summary

What to Include

Finding the focus

Accuracy or ambiguity?

The main tones

Composition

Background or not?

Proportion

Knowing when to stop

Summary

Part Three: Painting in Practice

PEOPLE

Portraits

Seated figures

Moving figures

Crowds

Silhouettes

Places

Fields and trees

Skies

Seascapes

Stillwater

Distance

Snowy mountains

Holidays

Towns and cities

Animals

Horses

Birds and backgrounds

Wildlife

Still Life

Household objects

Food and wine

Fruit and flowers

Pebbles

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Further Information

Index

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher