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Learn Quickly: The Big Book of Watercolour

Hazel Soan

Publisher: Batsford

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A compilation of practical guidance on everything you need to know about painting people and landscapes in watercolour, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations to develop your masterpiece.
Hazel Soan is a hugely successful painter and an outstanding teacher and author of art books, which have introduced the wonders of art to a generation of amateur artists. Here she collates her vast knowledge on painting in watercolour in easily digested steps that can be achieved in short bursts of time. 
In this extended compilation edition, Hazel Soan explains everything you need to know about painting people and landscapes in watercolour in an accessible and informative way. She advises on how to master brushstrokes and balance composition as well as dealing with the theories of colour and light. She gives you the tools to create urban streets, woodland forests and rocky coastlines and guides you through ways to insert people into your pre-existing paintings to bring them to life.
Bursting with easy-to-follow exercises and demonstrations, this comprehensive compendium of watercolour painting is an invaluable companion for beginners as a well as a useful resource for more experienced painters.
Available since: 06/11/2025.
Print length: 294 pages.

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