Best-selling author and artist Claudia Nice shows readers how to create incredible art in watercolor, pen and ink. She makes it easy by covering all the drawing and painting basics--from materials and texture techniques to color theory and special effects. It's a one-of-a-kind course in making extraordinary art.
Nice provides guidelines, advice and techniques for rendering hundreds of favorite places, environments and animals with incredible detail, including:
-Transparent images such as glass, eyes and water -Silver, brass, gold, copper, bronze and rusted metal -Earth and stone textures, including soil, sand and gravel -Skies and weather -Fields, flowers, trees, forests and wood grain patterns -Tide pools, tropical reefs, fish and animals -Deserts, ponds, swamps, marshes and mountains
It's no exaggeration to say that this incredible volume--a compilation collecting some of the finest instruction from Nice's other best-selling books--contains enough instruction, inspiration and gorgeous art to keep readers drawing, painting and enjoying the outdoors for years to come.
