The art of painting watercolors with spontaneity, so hard for beginners to achieve, is just a few brushstrokes away under the guidance of this great best-selling primer that shows how to achieve freely flowing images. In step-by-step exercises, readers learn how to use watercolor"s unique characteristics to interpret flowers, fruits, and vegetables with two brushes-one to lay in color, the other to manipulate form, resulting in loose, soft contours and beautifully blended colors.