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Hazel Soan's Art of the Limited Palette: a step-by-step practical watercolour guide by Hazel Soan

Hazel Soan . Unknown Year . English

How to work with a limited palette, with step-by-step demonstrations. One of the world's best art teachers shows you how to give spontaneity and lightness to your work with a limited palette. Using only three colours (up to five at the very most), is the most effective way to give your art a fresh feel. With an array of paintings, techniques and step-by-step demonstrations, renowned artist Hazel Soan goes through a range of specific colour combinations that work. Each chapter looks at a different combination, guided by a principal hue or pigment property. For landscapes she discusses cool blue and warm yellow, for gardens transparent reds and complimentary green, and for seascapes warm blue, cool yellow and granulation. The author explores the almost inexhaustible three-colour combinations but also discusses when four- or five-colour combinations would enhance or work more efficiently. This ensures your work is more cohesive, light and brings out the beauty of the watercolour medium. This extensive guide is packed with demonstrations, work in progress and finished paintings – and every single painting will have the colours itemized, making this not only a great technique book but great resource for colour combinations. Ideal for all painters, new or experienced.

Categories: Art & Design

About the Author

Hazel Soan was born in Woking, England, grew up in Surrey, and dreamed of being an artist from her teenage years. She launched into her artistic career straight from Art College, taking a bar maiding job at The Plough, in Downside, Cobham, to pay her rent. Within 9 months she had enough commissions from the customers that she could return to the other side of the bar, and an offer of an exhibition at a London Gallery. Hazel now has more than 25 one-woman shows to her credit and an international reputation. She has become one of Britain's most admired watercolourists, well-known through her role as an Art Expert on Channel 4's "Watercolour Challenge" and her Anglia TV series "Splash of Colour". Hazel is the author of 13 painting books and several DVD films, inspiring many with her enthusiasm for watercolour. She has studios in London and Cape Town, Africa has always been a large part of Hazel's inspiration. Her work is held in private and public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, The Ritz Club London, BBC Television, BP Oil, major London hospitals, international hotels, finance houses and a number of Embassies.

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