In Alwyn Crawshaw’s Ultimate Painting Course, the artist encapsulates 50 years’ of painting and teaching in one volume. He begins with the basics: brushes, paints, and surfaces; choosing a medium; and the fundamentals of simple perspective, color-mixing, composition, and tonal values. He then starts you off with simple three-color exercises, which are followed by a number of helpful half-hour exercises. He also shows you how to work from photos and sketches and includes a section on painting outdoors. Finally, there are more than 20 step-by-step demonstrations - in watercolor, acrylics, and oils - that feature landscapes, seascapes, and human figures. An outstanding guide for aspiring artists.

This very successful book, by top TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw, has sold over 60,000 copies in hardback and is now being reissued in paperback. It covers everything that the beginner needs to know about watercolour painting in 32 comprehensive lessons. Readers are encouraged to work through each lesson in turn so that gradually they will improve their technique and gain in confidence. Alwyn Crawshaw explains each process clearly and offers advice and encouragement at every stage. The book includes: * A series of practical lessons covering all the basic watercolour methods and techniques * Simple exercises and several step-by-step painting demonstrations, with clear and detailed instructions * Revealing examples of 'what went wrong', showing how to avoid common painting problems * A wide variety of subjects -- trees, water, skies, flowers, buildings, people, boats and animals

Starts with real basics and assumes no knowledge or experience of painting whatsoever.

In this practical guide well-known TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw helps the beginner to master the traditional art of painting in oils. All the essentials are covered in a comprehensive course of 25 lessons.

A beginner's guide to watercolor painting offers twelve self-contained lessons demonstrating different techniques, and includes advice on mixing colors, sketching, composing a picture, portraying light and shade, tonal values, and perspectives