Wendy Jelbert's Line and Wash: Watercolour and Pen Techniques

by Wendy Jelbert

The methods of merging soft luminous washes with the crisp, definite markings of penwork, are made easy with this book. Each stage of the painting process is illustrated using step-by-step photographs and beautiful finished paintings. You can choose a bold effect or a delicate pastel approach, a drawing or painting, in monumental or miniature scale. The wonderful flexibility of line and wash can accommodate many tastes; it is an inexpensive technique which can be worked during any spare moment, on your lap or at a table, and is an excellent way of capturing texture and detail in the landscape, the delicate linework in flowers and leaves, or the linear beauty of buildings.

48 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1997

Reviews

[Diane · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just got this and several other books by this woman. There is a photo of her drawing in open air and her clothing looks like a painting! Her mixed media techniques fit right in with my interest in using colored pencil, ink, water color, watercolor pencils, etc. Good to know someone else is so unorthodox in her approach to drawing! I've been taking a drawing class and this caught my eye as the next step after the class ends, which it did yesterday! I go to sleep reading all of my new books about techniques and try them out later.