David Webb has been an artist and illustrator for over 35 years. During this time, painting in watercolour has become a great passion and is the medium in which he specialises. He writes for leading art magazines and is the author of two watercolour books, including one on still life and another on painting animals. David also tutors painting courses and demonstrates to art societies. He is based in Devon in the UK.
David's blog can be found at www.davidwebbart.blogspot.co.uk and his website is www.davidwebbart.co.uk
From beginners up this book, one of an excellent series, provides
all the techniques and essential skills you need to begin to
understand watercolour and paint your first paintings. There is no
doubt that watercolour takes skill and understanding and that how
it works is key to being able to use it. Understand the medium,
learn how to mix, apply and more. This great watercolour primer
will help you achieve success. Washes, resists, colour charts,
design and perspective, texture, step-by-step demonstrations and
fabulous finished art.
*www.karenplatt.co.uk*
This really rather attractive book is arranged more or less in an
encyclopaedia format, but without quite falling into the tabulated
effect that implies. It’s a difficult thing to define, but the
result is both a rattle bag and the basis of a nicely-structured
course at the same time. Subtitling itself “all the essential
skills and techniques you need” is a pointer to this: it’s not so
much a manual as a connected series of lessons that you can work
with in almost any order. And there lies its attraction: each
section is easily separated out and you can read up about what you
need or what interests you at the moment. It would be possible to
work through from cover to cover and, indeed, you’ll probably want
to at some point. For the rest, it’s something to keep by you and
dip into serendipitously. It has many treasures to reveal and these
are best discovered by chance. There are hints, tips, lessons,
exercises and demonstrations and the book finishes rather
pleasingly with a section titled “Approaches to Watercolour”,
introducing a range of other contributors who present their own
ways of working.
*Artbookreview.net*
January 2018 Previously published in hardback, this new softbacked
edition of David Webb's Complete Guide to Watercolour tells you
everything you will ever need to know about the medium. David is an
experienced artist and teacher, and his lively explainations and
demonstrations will help both experienced artistsm and those new to
the medium find inspiration. Opening with chapters on materials and
techniques, the book moves on to making pictures, covering
composition, perspective, colour and mood. A selection titled
Expressing Form & Surface, includes specific elements of subject
matter such as landscapes, textures, and figures and portraits. The
final chapter concentrates on different artists' approaches to
watercolour which provies a fascinating insight into the
possibilities and variety of this beautiful medium.
*The Leisure Painter*
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