Banish boring watercolors forever This guide gives you the "power tools" you need to transform dull, flat landscapes into robust, colorful expressions of your artistic vision. Each chapter focuses on a specific strategy for tackling tough challenges, complete with inspiring examples, hands-on demonstrations and instructional diagrams to make these strategies easy and fun to learn. Following this guide's masterful visual instruction, you'll learn how to:

• See beyond "what you see" to develop strong foundations in every composition
• Avoid repainting, overworking and frustration by focusing on a composition's unifying elements
• Become decisive with your values for heightened interest and impact
• Quickly and easily mix a huge range of clean, rich colors--including vibrant grays and greens--with no more mud
• Put it all together following detailed step-by-step demonstrations of complete paintings from start to finish