Watercolor Made Easy: 30-Minute Landscapes: Quick and easy lessons for keeping your paintings loose and fresh (Watercolor Made Easy)

By Paul Talbot-Greaves

Discover the benefits of completing a watercolor painting in 30 minutes or less

Spending hours or even days on a watercolor painting can lead to dull, muddy results. But a surefire way to keep your paintings loose and fresh is to work quickly In this informative, 64-page book, accomplished artist Paul Talbot-Greaves proves that painting in watercolor doesn't have to be an all-day event. In fact, an impressive landscape scene can be created in just 30 minutes or less, which Paul demonstrates in 27 step-by-step lessons. To discourage readers from overworking their paintings, the author breaks down each lesson into short blocks of time, indicating how many minutes should be spent on each stage. In addition, he provides practical information on tone, color, pattern, light, and more, so readers can improve their skills and develop their "artist's eye."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1600580793
• ISBN13: 9781600580796
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Exercises

If you want easy step by step watercolour exercises to do, then this is the book for you! It is full of useful information from the introduction to the closing words. The simple instructions which accompany the 27 exercises enable even a novice to create little masterpieces in their own right. The instructions are easy to follow and the illustrations are excellent. This is the best book of its kind for ease of use and will help anyone achieve success in watercolour painting.

watercolor tutorial

Paul Talbot- Greaves are wonderful painter and instructor. The book is easy to understand and full of step-by-step instructions. I recommend this book to every watercolor lover.

Lovely helpful book

This is a lovely little book with nice illustrations and a lot of helpful information.