Watercolor: Pour It On! : Let Your Creativity Flow Using Dramatic Color Glazing Techniques

This enjoyable guide takes the fear out of "letting loose" and exploiting the flow of watercolor, empowering artists to trust their instincts and create glazes, rich in depth and luminosity. Step-by-step, artists are led through the process of planning, preparing and applying glazes, covering composition, exaggeration, elimination, repition and contrast. Also inside are 30 methods for producing watercolor images, 3 basic steps to developing a painting and 5 complete demos.

These new techniques will not only improve each artist's ability, they will also make the act of painting a more fulfilling and liberating experience.

Jan Fabian Wallake was a graphic designer and art director before becoming a full-time watercolorist. Her instruction has been published in Watercolor America, American Artist and The Artist's Magazine. Jan lives in Stillwater, Minnesota.