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  • Publisher: Search Press
  • Edition: BC Paperback
  • Publication: 01 February 2020
  • ISBN 13/EAN: 9781782218500
  • Stock: 42 in stock
  • Size: 164x236 mm
  • Illustrations: 400
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $39.99
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Four-Step Watercolour

$39.99

150 skill-building projects to paint by Marina Bakasova

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Book Description

An inspiring collection of subjects to paint in just four simple steps.

*** WINNER ***
Won MOST INSPIRING CRAFTY READ in The Best of Craft Awards 2020!

Marina Bakasova loves to paint, and with the help of this book, you will too! She has put together this varied collection of her favourite subjects and shows you how to paint each one in her loose, characterful style. Each project can be completed in just four simple steps, using a small selection of colours and a handful of tried-and-tested watercolour techniques.

Maybe you want to create a hand-painted birthday card or a piece of artwork to frame and hang on the wall, or embellish your hand-written journals and planners? Or perhaps you simply want to learn the relaxing art of painting with watercolours? Whatever your motivation, with 150 projects to choose from you’ll not fail to find something to inspire you.

Table of Contents

Meet Marina

Chapter One: Before You Get Started
Tools and Materials
Method and Techniques
Marina's Four Rules

Chapter Two: The Projects
Fruit
Vegetables
Confectioneries
Seashore
Seasons / Festivals
Household
Nature
Food & Drink
Animals...And A Very Small Baby
Travel
Jewels
The Sky Above Us

Index and Credits

About the Author

About Marina Bakasova

Marina Bakasova is an award winning artist in her early 20s, born in Bryansk, Russia. Fond of drawing and painting from early childhood, she recently graduated from Moscow State Stroganov Art University. Now working as a freelance illustrator, Marina is obsessed with art and painting. 

Marina's first book, Four-Step Watercolour, was published through Search Press in 2020 and won the Most Inspiring Crafty Read category in the Best of Craft Awards 2020. 

Marina has over 14,000 followers on Instagram, where her handle is @marinabksv

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Such a lovely book, simple easy instructions that can be followed by both myself & my 2 daughters. It's been a fab new hobby to learn during lockdown.


Crafts Beautiful

If you're nervous about putting brush to paper, allow Marina Bakasova to guide you through the art of watercolours. She presents a varied collection of her favourite subjects, all of which you can complete in four simple steps, using a small selection of colours and tried and tested techniques


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Marina Bakasova's Four-Step Watercolour includes 150 of the artist's favourite subjects, which she shows how to paint in four simple steps, using the minimum of equipment and fuss. The projects - from confectionery, seasons and festivals to nature, animals and the seashore  - can be framed as works in their own right or sent as birthday cards, or simply used to embellish your sketchbooks.

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