Claudia Nice shows you how to turn ink and watercolors into the coarse-barked trunk of an oak, or the burnished smoothness of brass, or the verdant velvet of moss. Or any of many other things.

She shows you how co use dots, fine lines, brushstrokes, black & white, color – a mixture of mediums and techniques – to suggest:

   * glass
   * enamelware
   * cast iron
   * rainbows
   * adobe and brick
   * sunrise and sunset
   * driftwood
   * leaf textures
   * basketry
   * surf and ocean waves
   * wood grain
   * distant trees
   * eggs and onions
   * animal hair
   * and dozens of ocher textures!

You’ll learn how to use materials, from technical pens to paint brushes, colored inks to liquid acrylics. You’ll discover ways to bloc, spatter, stamp and otherwise alter and combine ink and watercolor for exciting texturing effects.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Claudia Nice spent her childhood in Portland, Oregon. Family camping trips in the nearby Cascade mountain range developed her love of nature.

She began experimenting with art materials at a young age, gained basic art skills in school and won a scholarship for summer art classes at the University of Kansas, where she began sketching in pen and ink.

Claudia and her husband, Jim, live in the Columbia River Gorge on the Oregon border. She travels as an art consultant for Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph and Grumbacher, teaching workshops across the United States and Canada. Claudia has authored twelve successful art instruction books, including: