Sharon Finmark Books

Master mixing and using color An easy-to-use reference for watercolor painters of all levels, "600 Watercolor Mixes" shares all the keys to expert color mixing and how to enhance your work with vivacious shades and tints. Beginning with comprehensive charts demonstrating the nuances of each color pairing, "600 Watercolor Mixes" offers thorough color swatches of expected results when using different color mixing techniques like palette mixing, wet-into-wet, and overlaying. Plus, you'll get the basics on color theory and concepts, including saturation and value. Next, you'll learn about advanced color mixing, such as creating grays and neutrals. With Sharon Finmark's expert guidance, you'll discover how to get the precise depth of color needed. "600 Watercolor Mixes" illustrates how colors can be used to enhance a painting--to create spatial effects, add contrast, and make shadows. Filled with watercolor illustrations and examples, this manual gives all the color mixing fundamentals for watercolorists of all levels.

Three professional artists explain all the basic watercolor techniques in this step-by-step guide containing all the information new artists need to get started painting.

Painting gardens in watercolour is one of the most popular and accessible subjects. In this book, Sharon Finmark looks at all the essential aspects of painting gardens, including colour mixing and watercolour techniques, painting flowers, shrubs and trees, choosing subjects, planning and composition and garden details, and clearly describes how to tackle these topics. Several stage-by-stage demonstrations are included, covering different types of garden. It gives guidelines on choosing painting materials, advice on watercolour techniques, a wide range of subjects from flower borders to country gardens, and stage-by-stage demonstration paintings.