Detailed, illustrated manual on work with a water-colour from the founder of school of drawing of Kalacheva School Вероники Калачевой.This book - and for those, who a long ago in love in a water-colour and wants to know something a new from an experience artist and teacher, and for those, who wants to learn to work as these many-sided paints, but is afraid to try.Here you will find all most important information about bases, expounded simply and clear, : choice paints and instruments, equipment of workplace, base concepts and receptions, - and also preliminary exercises for an acquaintance with materials. An author tells about properties of water-colour and subtleties of work with her, nuances of selection of material and instruments for embodiment of your planning, mixing, dilution and use of features of paints and paper invoice for creation of interesting effects due to that your pictures will purchase liveliness and desired mood.Under a cover are more than twenty practical lessons on creation of the most various sketching : from concrete elements to valuable landscape. And in each of them an author is divided by little secrets and receptions, helping to give work a sparkle.From an authorThis book - for in love in a water-colour. And for those, whoever while had time her to fall in love with, and looks closely only. And for those, who yet it is afraid, but wants to understand and try.A water-colour loves brave. I repeat always it to the students! She has thousand persons, and I want to show everything to you.Book my course that was well gone already by several hundred persons underlay. I did him simple and accessible to each. Many students, completing him, pronounce a the same phrase: "I and unaware that I will be able to draw it. If to me it was said to beginning of course, I would disbelieve"! And I I smile each time.The first head is sanctified to materials. I tell about them much, but not nonsensically. Here are not little things that it is possible to ignore. In a water-colour materials are a half of success. And, to the word, the students of onlinecourse do not have possibility to jump over with task on a task. Therefore, if you want really to attain good results, follow a plan.The second head is a theory and base exercises. Even those my students that got education in institutions of higher learning, artistic schools and schools, pass him the same as all. Many confess that were firstly adjusted sceptically and were afraid to feel miserable, but in the total found the sea of useful skills. Here we practice and in passing execute the first simple works. you will be surprised, as from lungs, but necessary exercises new characters give birth.When you will pass this stage, you will have not a single question oh theory of color or inundation, tone or closeness. There will be only a hot desire somewhat quicker to test all this information in practice.Exactly to her and the third head is devoted. In her a sea of exercises is on different themes. From a task to the task we will all deeper and deeper submerge in a water-colour. In every theme we will begin to work off the already mastered skills and add new receptions. We will learn to pass invoices, work in a technique "по-сырому", we know, as to cause inspiration, and we will create the series of works in different styles. you will understand eventually, that to you nearer. Maybe, will want to continue work in the field of food- illustration or will fall in love with sea-pieces?One I promise you: if you will execute all tasks in turn, not skipping from one to other, if will observe all recommendations, your world will change, you necessarily will make friends with a water-colour!Whom this book is forAs for novices only coming that to fall in love with water-colour, so for experience artists, that want to purchase new skills and master receptions giving works a sparkle.