This exciting new title from best-selling author and artist Jane Betteridge explores how to create stunning abstract watercolor and mixed media art on canvas. The book contains short practical projects along with a comprehensive techniques section, three step-by-step projects, and is dotted throughout with Jane's sumptuous and inspirational finished artworks. The book encourages an experimental, semi-abstract approach to painting the natural landscape,...

"This book combines Chinese painting techniques with twenty-four solar terms of traditional Chinese culture. According to the sequence of the four seasons--spring, summer, autumn, and winter--natural scenes are refined into a series of charming ink paintings. Following the tutorials in this book, you can complete beautiful ink and wash paintings in just a few strokes. You will also learn about the culture surrounding the solar terms, which has been...