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Begin your watercolor paintings the right way - with a sketch!

Planning ahead is the key to avoiding mistakes and confusion while painting in watercolor.

By using preliminary sketches, you can establish the composition, design and color scheme you want in a finished painting, saving time, energy and materials.

David R. Becker helps you start sketching immediately with easy and fast exercises. You'll discover what works and what doesn't, plus unexpected ideas for using sketches during the painting process. You can turn even fifteen minutes into a valuable opportunity to experiment and learn with his methods for sketching anywhere, any time.

Sketching in watercolor is more than just practice. It's a fun, easy-to-use tool that develops your skills and improves each painting. Start sketching today!

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Booklist Review

A quartet of lavishly illustrated, full-color how-to books encompasses many fine applications from the basic building blocks of visual art techniques, from drawing the human figure to mural painting. Becker's book quickly introduces beginners to basic materials, tools, and techniques, then progresses to exercises and demonstrations with step-by-step directions for making creative sketches with drawing media as well as watercolor. Beginners can move from a simple silhouette sketch to still lifes, landscapes, and portraiture. Colored pencils blended with mixed media are the focus of Gildow's Colored Pencil Explorations, which incorporates pastel, watercolor, acrylic, ink, and more in a presentation detailing basic application and blending, color mixing, and burnishing. In a series of demonstrations using still lifes and landscapes, each medium added to colored pencil is carefully explained in terms of its uses and techniques. Painting Murals provides step-by-step instructions for 11 projects with themes suitable for almost any room in the house. After presenting a glossary of painting terms and a brief introduction to mural painting, Grund details materials and theory before moving on to basic painting techniques, giving specific instruction on transferring the design. A listing of resources complements the instructions. From classic figure drawing flows a complete vocabulary of skilled techniques basic to visual art. Robins' guide considers the elements--line, light and shade, mass, texture, foreshortening, and more--using basic geometric shapes to achieve accurate renderings of the nude human figure. His explanation of equilibrium and center of gravity as applied to figure drawing is particularly helpful to the novice exploring this essential foundational skill, and the index makes for user-friendliness. --Whitney Scott