Includes index

Preparing the surface -- Surfaces -- Textured grounds -- Crackle paste -- Modelling pastes -- Tissue paper -- Metallic leaf -- Step-by-step: Poppyfield -- Gilding flakes -- Wire brush -- Stamping into the surface -- Step-by-step: Beach scene -- Adding to your painting -- Inks -- Granulation -- Step-by-step: Magical woodland -- Food wrap -- Salt -- Gouache -- Contour relief -- Pearlescence -- Impasto -- Bronzing powder -- Stencils -- Gauze & thread -- Step-by-step: Wild flower in the wood -- Ideas and inspiration -- Exploring themes -- Focus -- Pattern & colour -- Your starting point

"Push your watercolor painting to new heights with this exciting and inspirational book that will give you innovative additional routes to vibrancy, texture and dynamism in your art. Brimming over with exciting innovative techniques, this book pushes watercolour to new heights, introducing vibrancy, texture and dynamism to this subtle medium. Including techniques and examples of gilding, relief, texture medium, crackle paste, using gauze and many more, plus a fascinating insight into generating ideas and turning inspiration into finished artwork, this is an absorbing guide to innovating and revitalising your watercolours. Jane Betteridge's follow-up to the successful Watercolours Unleashed, this is a perfect companion title that complements without overlapping its predecessor."--provided by publisher