Includes index

Provides basics of tools, color chemistry, and techniques, advances into perspective, color values, and architectural details, and includes eight start-to-finish demonstrations to practice those skills--

Setting up: getting to know your materials -- Secret world of paints: unlocking their mysteries -- Laying it down: exploring basic techniques -- Architecture of watercolor -- Value of light -- Values at work -- Color in the architectural landscape -- Alllure of color -- Building light