Painting with Watercolor

Barron's Beginner Art Guides are substantial books that pack in lots of information at a value price. Covering the fundamentals of art, each guide provides a series of projects, presented in order of difficulty, and supplemented with practical suggestions, ideas for color experiments, and techniques for creating special effects.

This volume introduces students to both cake and tube water-based pigments. It provides instructions for applying and controlling color on different grades of wet and dry paper. After studying a number of practical still life and landscape projects, students are invited to analyze three watercolor masterpieces by the English landscape artist John Constable.

Hardbound. 64 pages. 8¼" × 11" (21 cm × 28 cm).