Useful for beginners, this is a practical guide to painting in watercolours, oils and acrylics. It shows how to choose the best medium for different subjects, explaining how the different surfaces affect your work and which brushes and colours to use, and teaches the fundamentals of simple perspective, colour mixing, composition and tonal values.

The rest of the book contains more than 20 step-by-step demonstrations in watercolour, acrylics and oils, featuring landscapes, seascapes and figures. Contents include: Where to start? Advice on building confidence and finding inspiration; Your tools - understanding the basic materials required for each medium, from pencils and brushes to paper and paints; The way forward - practical guidelines on perspective, colour mixing and tonal values; Working outdoors - how to work from sketches and photographs; Step-by-step demonstrations - more than 20 in watercolour, oils and acrylics. This is the definitive practical guide for beginners to painting in all the most popular media - watercolour, oils and acrylics - written by the master of art instruction, Alwyn Crawshaw.