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Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes: Animals in Watercolour: Build your skills with quick & easy painting projects

Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes: Animals in Watercolour: Build your skills with quick & easy painting projects

Current price: $19.95
Publication Date: April 6th, 2021
Publisher:
Search Press
ISBN:
9781782216858
Pages:
128

Description

Learn to paint watercolor animals and birds—in just 30 minutes!—using over 30 step-by-step exercises complete with helpful tracings.

Includes small-scale projects for 6 x 4 watercolor pads, plus 3 full-size paintings!

Are you short on time but want to learn how to paint animals in watercolor? This beginner’s watercolor painting book offers exercises ideal for a 6 x 4 watercolor pad, plus 3 full-size projects—all of which can be completed in just 30 minutes. Inside, you’ll find step-by-step guidance on:
 
• Basic watercolor techniques
• Painting key features to capture animal personality
• Painting textures and markings like life-like feathers and fur
• Painting animal portraits from photographs and life
• Painting animals in landscapes, including fields, woodlands, and more
3 full-size painting projects: King Charles Spaniel; Snow Leopard; Hummingbird
Tracings for each watercolor painting—no drawing necessary!
 
Among the bird and animal species Matthew Palmer includes in this title are: parrot, cat, dog and puppy, sheep and lamb, zebra, stag, cow, swan, flamingo, elephant, penguin, robin, giraffe, snow leopard, ram, rabbit, meerkat, monkey, rooster and tiger.

Each project is designed to cover a certain watercolor technique, making this the perfect crash course for beginners or artists looking to develop their skills.

About the Author

Matthew Palmer is a renowned demonstrator of watercolour painting, and his classes are particularly popular with beginners. He has been painting seriously for over twenty years and specializes in landscapes, still life and animals. He has his own studio at his home in Derbyshire, UK and teaches hundreds of people each week, as well as running watercolour workshops and holidays. He has many personal exhibitions, participates in several art shows and appears regularly on television as well as on his own internet-based art show at www.watercolour.tv