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The best artists are also the best teachers! If the masters are your inspiration, use their art to help you create evocative watercolors of your own. Seven lessons each focus on a masterpiece by a great artist, provide background information, discuss the work as a whole, and give a detailed evaluation of the stylistic intricacies. A special focus on watercolor techniques--including backruns, blending, body color, brushwork, dry brush, glazing, and impressing--shows just what you can achieve with this luscious medium. Hone your skills on depicting water, dramatic landscapes, the nude, still lifes, and nature, with celebrated works by Cotman, Constable, Monet, Bonnard, Gainsborough, Fantin-Latour, and Winslow. Your paintings will improve almost instantly!