Watercolor Right from the Start
by Hilary Page
Category: Art

Hilary Page has created this book to help artists develop that ability and get watercolor painting right - from the start. The book explores four practical ways of learning to see; by understanding the primary geometric forms - the sphere, cylinder, cube, and their derivatives - and relating them to the natural world; by examining relative values of light and dark as they occur in the primary forms; by understanding how the eye perceives color; and by studying the principles of perspective. Complex concepts such as these are presented in ways that make them easy to understand. At the heart of this book are six sections that focus on the basic geometric forms. Each section consists of a series of three to five in-depth lessons that explore the characteristics of a specific form while simultaneously exploring ways of seeing, drawing, handling watercolor, and composing a painting.