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Creative Portraits in Watercolor

Learn to Paint Faces and Characters with Beginner-Friendly Lessons

Ana Santos

Description

Creative Portraits in Watercolor presents simple step-by-step demonstrations and beginner-level exercises to create expressive, imaginative portraits.

You'll learn about:

Essential Materials: Types of watercolour paint, papers, brushes and other supplies
Colour: Its essential characteristics, plus the colour wheel, harmonies, contrasts and creating palettes
How to Work with Watercolour: Fundamental methods, brushstrokes, transparencies, gradients and techniques for creating areas of light
Proportions of the Face: Basic proportions and feature positions for front, profile and three-quarter views, plus creating imaginary faces and transferring reference images
Creative Portraits: Discover more than 20 fun exercises that explore painting portraits using key colour wheel palettes, mixed media combinations and thought-provoking techniques