This take-along guide features a lay-flat binding and hands-on instruction, teaching you everything from key concepts, such as compostition, value and color...right down to specific details, like how to master large washes or rescue paintings from run backs.

Sprinkled throughout, you will find dozens of practical tips, techniques and advice, such as:

• Colors to avoid
• Three no-fail approaches to composition
• Why expensive paints aren't always best
• Tricks for working wet-in-wet
• The dos and don'ts of masking
• Which brushes and paper work best