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Focusing on practical techniques, this comprehensive course in watercolour landscape painting guides beginners through essential skills like composition, perspective, and color. Renowned artist Matthew Palmer offers step-by-step exercises, including projects like windmills and seascapes, designed to enhance both novice and improving artists' abilities. Each project features a pull-out outline drawing for easy transfer onto watercolour paper. With accessible tips and a friendly teaching style, Palmer makes the art of painting approachable for everyone.

Set against the backdrop of international politics, this debut thriller follows a diplomat navigating the complex relations between the United States and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The narrative weaves tension and intrigue as it explores themes of diplomacy, power struggles, and the impact of global events on local lives. With a blend of suspense and political insight, the story promises to engage readers who enjoy fast-paced, thought-provoking tales.

An easy-to-follow beginner’s guide to painting animals and birds in watercolour with best-selling artist Matthew Palmer.

Learn how to paint watercolour landscapes from scratch with artist Matthew Palmer.

Use the included viewfinders, mix ‘recipes’ to achieve that perfect effect and take bestselling artist/author Matthew Palmer with you wherever you decide to paint giving you top tips, handy hints and useful tricks-of-the-trade. From best-selling artist Matthew Palmer, this indispensable reference book is like having an artist on your shoulder to help you achieve great results. Designed to aid your painting whilst painting either indoors or out, the small journal-like format makes it easy to transport and to store with the rest of your painting kit. Combining top tips, handy hints and useful tricks-of-the-trade for artists from beginners to intermediates. The book includes: Sketching tips and mini demos Essential color mixes for different subjects, shadows, etc. Troubleshooting tips for correcting mistakes Essential kit list for painting outdoors. Viewfinder included The book also features color swatches (“recipes”) printed down the sides of the color mixing pages, with the component colors and percentages alongside, so that you can hold them up to the object your painting, match the color and create the right mix. Handy for all levels helping to adapt within the painting eg changing the sky from morning to evening. Also included is a ruler printed down the side of the cover, and a viewfinder for finding the best composition for the scene you're painting.

An ideal beginner's guide to painting animals and birds in watercolour for artists who are short on time.

"Sam Trainor's career of overseas work coupled with a penchant for being outspoken has left him on the outside of the competitive Washington establishment. Formerly the top South Asia expert in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Trainor has moved to the private sector ... But Sam soon discovers that for all their similarities, the government and their hired contractors have vastly different motives. As he struggles to adjust to a more corporate, profit-driven version of the work that had been his life, he stumbles across an intelligence anomaly--the transcript of a phone conversation about the fastest ways to upend the delicate political balance keeping India and Pakistan from all-out war"--