Composition, Color and Popular Subjects for Watercolor

Author Joe Garcia
Ebook
On sale Nov 01, 2011 | 70 Pages | 9781440323003

Learn great lessons about how you can incorporate great design elements into your composition, including five easy formulas that will ensure a strong image every single time. But don't let your great design be ruined by muddy colors! These lessons go beyond color wheel instruction to teach how to achieve tones from skin color to sky and foliage, all of which sets up the final section, where you'll learn great approaches to popular subjects ranging from animals and nature to man-made objects.
Joe Garcia lives and works near Julian, California. He has been painting full-time since 1983 and published his first book, Mastering the Watercolor Wash with North Light Books in 2002. View titles by Joe Garcia

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Learn great lessons about how you can incorporate great design elements into your composition, including five easy formulas that will ensure a strong image every single time. But don't let your great design be ruined by muddy colors! These lessons go beyond color wheel instruction to teach how to achieve tones from skin color to sky and foliage, all of which sets up the final section, where you'll learn great approaches to popular subjects ranging from animals and nature to man-made objects.

Author

Joe Garcia lives and works near Julian, California. He has been painting full-time since 1983 and published his first book, Mastering the Watercolor Wash with North Light Books in 2002. View titles by Joe Garcia

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