Digital version : The Complete Book of Watercolour 2024

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CONTENTS:

Part 1: Getting started or starting to paint again and developing your potential
Chapter 1: Priming your potential
Chapter 2: Get motivated and inspired again
Chapter 3: Is your painting affecting your health?
Chapter 4: Material

Part: Technique: Theory and practice
Chapter 5: Mass (shapes)
Shape is a vital component in a composition. Shapes constitute the foundations or the skeleton of the painting and just like the human skeleton, play an essential role in carrying or supporting other elements. Shapes or masses provide the structure on which the rest of the painting can rely, ­therefore allow the whole to function in harmony.
Chapter 6: Tonal values
You could compare a painting’s tonal values to a melody. Values and shape work together to determine the different parts that constitute the design of a painting. They create the melody, injecting visual music pauses that give rhythm to the painting.
Chapter 7: The practical use of colour
Chapter 8: Colours
We all love colour but shape and values, as we have just seen, remain the two fundamental elements in a painting. regardless, colour still often gets all of the recognition.
Chapter 9: 7 secrets revealed to create your own masterpiece
Chapter 10: Composition and subject treatment
Composition is a subject that entails numerous constraints: control, discipline, preliminary sketches, time spent thinking, technique etc. But these qualities alone are simply not enough and do not guarantee the success
of the finished painting. Art is like music in that sense: it is technique which provides the foundations to ideas, emotions and creativity.

Part 3: How to develop your artistic path
Chapter 11: 20 questions to ask yourself if you want to be sure your painting is finished
Chapter 12: The five stages in the cycle of progress. Why I’m not getting the results I want
Chapter 13: Identify your painting strengths & weaknesses, and act upon them.