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Although slightly damaged, all hurt copies are perfectly usable. Books may have bent or scratched covers and/or dented spines. All interior pages are 100% clean. Please note these books are only available from our website whilst stocks last!
by Wendy Tait
Keen to paint, but your drawing skills let you down? This book provides pull-out tracings for five beautiful floral paintings, along with full step-by-step instructions for how to bring them to life with watercolour paint.
A clear guide on how to transfer the tracings to your watercolour paper is included, along with a helpful section on what materials to use.
Ready to Paint: Watercolour Flowers makes painting flowers simple and accessible, and offers guidance on how you can develop your new painting skills.
Wendy Tait gave demonstrations and taught classes to art clubs and societies. Although she no longer teaches, she remains as busy as ever, enjoying writing and illustrating books and painting in several different media.
June 08
People often want to take up painting when they retire and have more time. Others start sooner, once their kids are grown and in school. The drawing part of painting can be hard for beginners enough of an obstacle so they give up or never get past painting by numbers.
My friends who paint have always had a natural ability. They drew as children. I dont have that at all. Now two new books promise to make watercolor painting easier for beginners by following what I call an old-but-new approach.
The Ready to Paint series from Search Press in England is designed so that novice painters can pick up a brush and create appealing paintings with easy-to-follow tracings. The tracings can be reused. The idea is that you gain confidence as your hand-eye coordination is trained, by following the tracings, while you have some pleasing results to motivate you to keep trying.
Watercolour Flowers by Wendy Tait has nine reusable tracings to pull out. Watercolour Landscapes by Terry Harrison has six reusable tracings to pull out. Both are to be published in June.
The artists explain how to compose a painting with simple instructions and tips. Both Tait and Harrison are authors as well as artists.
Winsor & Newton "Rose Lake" should read "Permanent Rose".
Drawing
By Giovanni Civardi
How to Draw: Faces
By Susie Hodge
Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner
By Matthew Palmer
Watercolour Flowers Step-by-Step
By Wendy Tait & Richard Bolton
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