How to Paint & Draw is the most up-to-date and complete guide to all the materials, techniques and methods that any beginner will need, and contains expert ideas and advice on the many new innovations and approaches to provide inspiration for more advanced practitioners.
Divided into four parts, the book covers all the most popular mediums: drawing, water-colour, oil and acrylic, pastel. Each section explains in full the range of materials and equipment available today, and reveals how to get the best out of them. It shows clearly how to do the basic setting up and preparation, and takes the reader through all the first techniques, with step-by-step practical projects. More specialized projects are then explained, clearly and simply, for increasingly advanced and sophisticated effects.