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This popular book provides all the information you need to get started in watercolour painting. Full of clear, simple advice and more than 70 step-by-step demonstrations, Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner will teach even the least confident of beginners the skills and techniques needed to start painting.

In this easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide, three professional artists explain all the basic watercolour techniques.

Top TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw demonstrates the basic techniques including brushstrokes, colour mixing and depicting distance and foreground to get you started in watercolour.

Lecturer and Artist Sharon Finmark explains how you can paint realistic figures, covering scale and proportion, mixing convincing skin colours and portraying movement and light effectively.

Artist and teacher Trevor Waugh demonstrates techniques for painting animals – domestic, farmyard and wild. Starting with simple animal shapes, Trevor takes you through the rudiments of 3D shapes, tone and colour and the tricks of using foreshortening in your work.

Alwyn Crawshaw has written over 25 books on art instruction, all published by HarperCollins. He has a huge following among amateur painters and has made 8 successful TV series on Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel, as well as many videos on painting. Amongst other acheivements, Alwyn founded the Society of Amateur Artists, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a past president of the National Acrylic Painters’ Association. He regularly contributes to Leisure Painter magazine.

Sharon Finmark is an experienced teacher of painting at West Dean College and also runs private workshops in her own studio. Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Academy Business Art Gallery. She has written several articles for ‘The Artist’ and is the author of ‘Learn to Paint – Gardens in Watercolour’.

Trevor Waugh is an established and popular painter who runs very successful workshops and painting holidays. Apart from his attractive watercolour painting, his work is also known to a wide market in the form of greetings cards, prints and other merchandise. Author of the successful Winning with Watercolour, his new book You Can Paint Animals in Watercolour is published in summer 2002.