With a simple palette of just six colors, complete novices will achieve maximum success with minimum frustration as they learn the art of watercolor painting. Organized in a lesson-by-lesson approach, each chapter focuses on one or two watercolor skills and includes a series of practice exercises for developing skills. Step by step, painters will learn how to choose materials and supplies and control the watercolors; work with analogous, complementary...

The author has divided this work into three parts. In part one he tells all about how he got started, how he first fell in love with watercolor, who taught and inspired him, and how he continued to find great pleasure and challenge in this medium. In part two, he describes in thirteen full-color step-by-step demonstrations how he paints landscapes, seascapes, and architectural subjects. In part three, he reproduces thirty-seven of his favorite paintings,...