This hands-on guide explores the wide range of paint and special-effects products available today and offers a step-by-step guide to choosing, mixing, and using them for a variety of home decorating purposes. Here is pratical advice on everything from preparing surfaces to choosing colors and equipment, from understanding paint properties to mastering painting techniques.

This book shows how easy it is to produce beautiful paintings. Using simple techniques to build up a picture from start to finish, this comprehensive guide to watercolours presents advice on choosing materials and getting started, invaluable instructions for laying washes and panting skies, landscapes and building, key techniques for dealing with shadows and light, mood and atmosphere and five lovely paintings from the programmes to try out.

This book provides the designer with grids, hanglines, margins, borders, rule measurements, and type specs-everything needed to recreate the featured layouts. It covers features over 40 projects specially tailored to cover the design of all types of printed matter from newsletters to advertisements. It also includes professional application spreads, showing dynamic layouts by top graphic designers.