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Hazel Soan

Light and Shade in Watercolour

Light and Shade in Watercolour

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Mastering light and shade in watercolour painting is essential for creating lifelike detail and engaging artworks. This book provides step-by-step exercises and hints to help artists learn how to balance light and shade through compositional design, establish the shadow of individual components, and create atmospheric effects. It also explores tonal patterns and how to bring them together to create fantastic artworks.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 144 pages
\n Publication date: 07 March 2019
\n Publisher: Pavilion Books
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Mastering light and shadow is the key to successful watercolour paintings, and this book is the perfect guide for artists looking to paint like an expert. Packed with colourful and varied paintings by Hazel Soans, as well as step-by-step exercises and handy hints, the book teaches readers how to see the values of light and shade through the eyes of an artist. It then demonstrates how watercolour is the perfect medium to represent light and shade, with chapters on balancing light and shade through compositional design, establishing the shadow of individual components within the composition, and using clever techniques such as conserving white paper to show highlights, mixing the right tonal values, and balancing detail in the painting. Finally, the book looks at using light and shade to create atmospheric effects, tonal patterns to look out for, and how to bring it all together to create fantastic artworks.

\n Weight: 834g\n
Dimension: 260 x 238 x 18 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781849945264\n \n

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