Step by Step to Dazzling Paintings!
It's easier than you think.
With the easy-to-follow instruction in this book, painters of every skill level can create rich, luminous paintings layer by layer. Linda Stevens Moyer is here to show you how.

A self-admitted light junkie, Linda's paintings shine with a inner light all their own. The pages of this month's Main Selection are rich with her brilliant feats of watercolor...the vibrant silhouette of an iris towering against dark skies, shadows dancing across dense foliage, a koi just breaking the surface of a lily pond, sending out circular ripples across water that offers both a hint of what lies beneath, and a reflection of what rises above. You, too, can achieve stunning effects like these.

The prospect of capturing a dramatic sense of light and luminosity can be at once exciting and intimidating. By breaking it down piece by piece and chapter by chapter, Linda turns this awesome challenge into an achievable adventure.

Gain Confidence
Linda takes you step by step through the 3 key application techniques--brush line (how to use the brush in a sensitive, expressive and economical way), the wash and wet-into-wet.

Next, she takes the mystery out of color mixing, laying out the facts you need to mix and use color with confidence and without confusion, making sense of things like complementary colors and how mix vibrant darks.

Additional chapters on form, texture and luminosity will give you the structured foundation and skills to create dazzling paintings.

Step by Brilliant Step
Start painting small with several mini-demonstrations (a lotus blossom, koi, cut crystal candy dish), and work up to larger paintings of cone flowers, palm leaves, and other fun subjects.

In addition to the step-by-step demonstrations, Linda provides 22 "assignments" to help you practice and become proficient in every featured technique.