Painting with Watercolor, Pen & Ink Book

Very Good Reference

Sometimes a great reference image with a short description is much more useful than long explanations.

With its detailed introductory chapters explaining materials that may be needed, followed by pages and pages of drawings and paintings with short descriptions of pen techniques, color palettes, and watercolor techniques, I found this book to be extremely useful.

I wouldn't recommend it for a beginner but once one has the basics down this book will show numerous methods of achieving certain looks as well as many new techniques.

A very nice painting of an old barn may only go into detail about the colors and techniques used on the roof yet at the same time it makes it much easier to understand how other parts of the painting or drawing were done even though they weren't explained.

I often find myself flipping through the book looking at drawings and paintings just to come up with new ideas.

And as a big fan of pen & ink I enjoy the detailed drawings as much if not more than the finished watercolors. I have a few other books from this artist/author and have enjoyed them all.