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Improve your artistic fitness - no sweating required! Join Hannah M. Pickerill for a watercolour crash course to bolster your skills and build a diverse portfolio. By completing one comprehensive lesson a day, you’ll radically improve your watercolour skills in one month while painting over 30 landscapes, animal portraits, single subject studies and abstract zentangles alike.Divided in two parts, Hannah first makes painting essentials fun, with interactive lessons and exercises on everything from colour theory and composition to mark-making and glazing. Once you’ve warmed up, she takes your work to the next level in part two, with chapters on applied techniques, advanced subjects and experimental applications, like using watercolour graphite pencils or painting with your palette knife.Whether you’re looking for improvement in a flash or are more focused on the journey, these lessons are written to help you succeed and surpass your watercolour goals. Perfect for beginners looking to learn the basics or intermediate watercolourists looking refine their techniques and banish artist’s block, Hannah’s accessible art boot camp is the fun way to invigorate your painting practice.

Indulge your wanderlust and create breathtaking watercolour landscapes with ease under Hannah Pickerill’s expert instruction. Learn all the techniques needed to capture your favourite landscapes on Earth (and beyond) with clear instructions, step-by-step illustrations and sample swatches to guide your every stroke. Travel through varied climates and compositions as you paint everything from scorching Moroccan Sand Dunes to Snow in the Sierras, the mysteries of a Misty Forest to the wide-open Oregon Plains. With Hannah’s guidance, you’ll find yourself mastering colour gradients, atmospheric perspective and realistic highlights and shadows in paintings like:The Secrets of Stonehenge - Violet Nafplio Sunset - Autumn Reflections - Great Smoky Mountains - Yellowstone Bison - Motion of the Ocean - El Capitan - Colourful Galaxy - Whether you are a beginner just picking up your first brush or a painting enthusiast, this book brims with vibrant inspiration for navigating the wonderous world of watercolour.

Whip Your Watercolor Skills into ShapeImprove your artistic fitness-no sweating required! Join Hannah M. Pickerill for a watercolor crash course to bolster your skills and build a diverse portfolio. By completing one comprehensive lesson a day, you'll radically improve your watercolor skills in one month while painting over 30 landscapes, animal portraits, single-subject studies and abstract Zentangles(R) alike.Divided in two parts, this guide first makes painting essentials fun, with interactive lessons and exercises on every- thing from color theory and composition to mark-making and glazing. Once you've warmed up, Hannah takes your work to the next level in Part 2, with chapters on applied techniques, advanced subjects and experimental applications, like using watercolor graphite pencils or painting with your palette knife.Whether you're looking for improvement in a flash or are more focused on the journey, these lessons are written to help you succeed and surpass your watercolor goals. Perfect for beginners looking to learn the basics or intermediate watercolorists looking to refine their techniques and banish artist's block, Hannah's accessible art boot camp is a fun way to invigorate your painting practice.