Watercolour Painting Course

Welcome to 'Watercolour Painting Course'.

Don't let anyone tell you that drawing and painting is difficult. If you can hold a pencil and brush you can draw and paint. You learned to write at school and the marks made to complete letters are far more complicated than those needed to be made by a brush to paint. All you need is the urge to succeed and the patience to practice.

Watercolour is popular with professionals and amateurs alike, despite it's reputation for being the most difficult medium to use. The main attraction is it's simplicity both in equipment and finished works where a wide range of styles bring light and life to a painting.

This course brings together years of study and experience. If it were a traditional paper book it would run to hundreds of pages; coupled with the cost of colour printing, the cost would be prohibitive. 'Watercolour Painting Course' aims to educate and guide you; from the first shopping trip to get your equipment and through the basic techniques and conventions, to the point where you can spread your wings and begin to develop your own style.

The course is written in simple plain English; not to patronise the reader but, to make it accessible to everyone regardless of age or ability. Many instruction books take you straight to techniques and actually getting paint onto the paper, but I believe that learning some of the rules and conventions are necessary at the outset as they are vital to planning good pictures. I start with sketching as a bad sketch will never make a good painting. Then move onto composition and learn something of perspective. To be able to paint a beautiful scene with apparent ease, one must learn all of these points. It is best then, to follow the course in order. But if you really can't wait to get to work on your first piece, by all means skip to the lessons after checking out which materials you need.

I truly hope that this is your first step to a lifelong pleasure in watercolour painting.

Regards from the author

Jane Grainger

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