Watercolor For The Serious Beginner
$19.95 $15.96 On Sale!
WG056600
The favored art medium of Watson-Guptifl readers, watercolor is now the subject of a book in the
new, popularly priced hit series aimed at beginners who seriously want to develop a professional
art career.
Concise and richly informative text is interspersed with gorgeous watercolor paintings, inspiring
readers to high standards of personal achievement. The book opens by outlining essential
components of good watercolor painting, followed by a showing of basic materials and tools.
Next, the author examines such critical subjects as flat and gradated washes, glazing,
wet-on-wet and drybrush applications, plus correction methods. Special techniques of spattering, scraping, masking, scumbfing, sponging, and washing off are also presented. Final sections explore the step-by-step creation of glowing watercolors in three genres: still life, landscape, and figure painting.
This book provides:
. a helpful overview of paints, paper, brushes
· complete yet simplified instruction in the basics
· a wide range of illustrated watercolor techniques
· exceptionally beautiful watercolor paintings to inspire students; including those by such
luminaries of the medium as John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Jeanne Dobie, and Nell Blaine
· a complete coursebook at an attractive price.
A graduate of the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, Mary Whyte has been
honored for landscape and portrait paintings in juried shows of the American Watercolor Society,
Allied Artists of America, and the Greenwich Workshop in Southport, Connecticut. She teaches
portrait and figure painting throughout the United States and maintains a studio on Seabrook
Island, South Carolina. 144 page, 7" x 10", 175 color illustrations. 0-8230-5660-0. (paper) World Distribution 7/97 Watson & Guptill

Home
Adhesives
Airbrushes
Artboxes
Books
Brushes
Canvas
Cardboard
Children
Colors
Crafts
Drafting
Furniture
Picture Frames
Graphic Arts
Knives & Cutters
Pads
Paint By Number
Palettes
Paper
Pens
Pencils
Portfolios
Printmaking
Sculpture 
What's New
Overstock
About Us
Employment Opportunities
ViewCart
Be sure to click for
in the central and western U.S.
For more information Email info@reuels.com
or call 8 AM to 6 PM MST 1-888-355-1713 toll free.
©Copyright Reuel's Distribution all rights reserved