How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself

Award-winning artist Nita Engle's breakthrough approach to watercolor shows readers how to combine spontaneity and control to produce glowing realistic paintings. Her method begins with action-filled exercises that demonstrate how to play with paint following no rules. Subsequent step-by-step projects add planning to the mix demonstrating how to turn loose washes into light-filled watercolors with textural effects achieved by spraying sprinkling pouring squirting or stamping paint. Engle's approach and her results are dramatic and dynamic; now watercolor artists can create their own exciting paintings with help from How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself.