Painting with watercolors, oils, acrylics, and gouache. "A complete step-by-step course in painting techniques from getting started to achieving excellence, with over 1600 color photographs ... A complete guide to artist's materials, including paint, brushes, additives, gels, pastes, supports, varnish, easels, and ... more. Includes the most common paint techniques together with small-scale practice exercises: masking out, using resists, sponging, wet into wet, drybrush, alla prima, glazing, scumbling, impasto, and removing paint ..."