Product Description: Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan has distilled her teaching into a concise guide that focuses on the things that matter most to aspiring painters. Not only can oil painting techniques be picked up relatively quickly, but the medium is relatively forgiving, allowing novices to easily correct their mistakes...read more

This encyclopedia is an essential reference guide for all artists who enjoy painting landscapes in watercolour. The first part of the book is dedicated to tools and materials, working methods and colours. A basic techniques section then provides tips for mixing colour, wet in wet, flat washes, masking, sponging and much more.

A handy, practical and inspirational little book -- perfect for the pocket or art bag -- showing watercolour painters of all levels how to loosen up their paintings and maintain spontaneity.

Product Description: Popular TV artist and teacher Hazel Soan is well known for her stunning watercolours of Africa. This superbly illustrated guide is both a safari through her beloved southern Africa and an instructional journey through a range of subjects, showing different ways to see and paint them...read more

This is a new title in Collins' best-selling Learn to Paint series, by popular artist Hazel Soan, focusing on one of the most important aspects of painting -- how to portray light, atmosphere and mood in watercolour paintings.

Product Description: Important as it is, successful watercolors require more than good technique. Often, it is the artist’s attitude to their work that can make the difference between a merely competent painting and one that really stands out. Confidence is the key, and for the intermediate painter, this comes not just by practicing techniques but also by developing a deeper understanding of the underlying tenets of watercolor painting...read more

Product Description: This title explains how to recognize a good subject and draws attention to the enormous number of painting possibilities in everyday life, at work, at home, while travelling and on holiday. "What shall I paint"? might seem a strange question to ask when there are around us so many obvious subjects to paint, but painters sometimes become aware that their choice of subject does not always readily make a good painting...read more

Product Description: Hazel Soan, with her colourful and lively style of painting, offers an exciting, contemporary approach to working in watercolour, the most popular medium of all.  Every painter wants to paint vibrant pictures but sometimes it can be difficult to capture that special quality on paper...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Step-by-step photographs and text teach watercolorists techniques for painting the most popular landscape subjects, including such elements often found in landscapes as clouds, grass, and rain.