The perfect watercolour - Alan Oliver

Everyone wants to paint the perfect watercolour but it is an unpredictable medium for beginners. By using Alan Oliver's tonal layering technique and by following carefully the 12 step-by-step demonstration in this book, you will soon be painting watercolours you can be proud of.

In The Perfect Watercolour Alan Oliver's unique teaching system shows you how to build up your paintings in carefully thought-out stages. In 12 practical demonstrations you can follow step-by-step as each element of the painting is added. Photographs show the progress of the complete painting and separate, accompanying artworks show exactly what has been done at each stage.

You can learn to paint the perfect watercolour by using the tonal layering technique and by:

- Planning your watercolour paintings carefully

- Building up your paintings in tonal layers with the light-to-dark technique

- Following the step-by-step demonstrations as the artists work on them

- Analysing your subject in terms of light and dark tonal values