A Beginner' S Guide to Watercolour with Mixed Media: Inspirational Projects and Innovative Techniques, Paperback

Take your artwork further with this lively, informative guide to combining traditional watercolour with other media.

Adding other media to your watercolour paintings is a fantastic way to take your work in new, more exciting directions. However, the vast array of painting media and materials on the market can be daunting, especially for the absolute beginner. This book introduces the reader to the range of media that is available, explains briefly and clearly how to use the materials and provides six step-by-step projects and inspiring finished paintings to encourage the reader to take a definitive leap into the exciting world of mixed media art.

Author Alison Board covers a multitude of topics in her work, and this book features projects on the subjects of flora, animal portraits, dancers in motion, cities and cityscapes, and landscapes. She explores how to combine wet and dry media, and how to create vibrant collages from man-made and natural found objects. There are no mistakes in mixed-media artwork; Alison encourages the reader to embrace the experimental and be unafraid.

Alison has always had a creative career. Having originally trained to be a ballet teacher, she changed her subject to fine art following encouragement from her parents to join the family business. Alison spent fifteen years managing and subsequently owning a contemporary gallery and arts centre in Wimborne Minster, Dorset where she also taught both the adult and children's courses. In 2009 she started a degree in Fine Art at the Arts University Bournemouth, where she graduated in 2013 with First Class Honours. Alison's ever-growing portfolio includes regular demonstrations and workshops for the SAA, an organisation which has produced a number of DVD and television tutorials with her. Alongside her digital tuition, Alison runs a comprehensive range of workshops, courses and painting weekends from her studio at Downend Farm, and has recently expanded internationally to include painting holidays.