Simple Lessons In Watercolor

This site offers 35 quick and easy lessons about painting in watercolor. Each lesson takes a simple subject (a hat, a jar, some fruit) and describes how best to mix and paint the colors necessary to produce a realistic colored drawing.

There's also a little bit about watercolor paints and paper. In particular, what a beginner would need to start painting in watercolor as inexpensively as possible.

The lessons on this site are based on a late 19th century book called Simple Lessons In Colour by H.A. Rankin (published by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons). All of the illustrations are from this text. I've substituted color names where needed and modernised the language.

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