Watercolor: The Complete Course

by Stan Smith

Easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs and clear instructions detail the fundamentals of working with watercolors, covering such topics as selecting colors and brushes, composition, mixing colors, and painting techniques. Reprint.

Genres: Art

160 pages, Paperback

First published October 12, 1995

About the author

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Stan Smith (1929-2001) was trained at St Albans School of Art and the Royal College of Art and pursued a distinguished career as painter, author and teacher. His long teaching career included periods at the London College of Printing and the Royal College of Art and culminated in 1986 in the headship of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford where he had taught since 1979.

Reviews

[Jenny K · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent technique section with small practice exercises to build skills. He gets into a lot of additives, which I'm not really interested in, and then uses them throughout the remainder of the projects. Worth the read, but not worth buying.

[Sherrill Watson · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good book, tho not a great one for a beginner. Mr. Smith's illustrations are not to my taste, but his exercises are complete and thorough. He has four pages on light, four pages on skies, four on flowers, foliage and fields, pages on glass containers, several pages on people and animals, and some on general practices etc. Perhaps when I'm a better painter, I'll return to this book.