Watercolour Textures: An art guide from basic textures to advanced compositions

• Ann Blockley is a highly successful artist, known for the innovative way in which she uses texture as a key element in her work.
• This book, from the Collins Artist's Studio series, looks at how she achieves her stunning effects and offers essential guidelines for the intermediate painter wishing to develop this aspect of their own painting.
• Creating textures with watercolour can be challenging, but this book offers a fresh approach to the subject.
• It focuses on a wide range of unusual techniques, some of which depart from more conventional methods, and reveals how to render textures by a variety of means.
• Ann explains how to manipulate textures with watercolour.
• Ann explains how to manipulate paint by lifting colour, scraping and scratching paint, and using additional materials such as wax, cling film, salt and metallic pigments.
• Practical exercises, projects, step-by-step demonstrations and studio tips are included, as well as the work of several guest artists: John Blockley, Moira Huntly and Shirley Trevena.
• Number of pages: 128.
• Language: English.
• Language: English.
• Language: English.

Publisher: Artist's Studio.

Publisher: Artist's Studio.