Watercolor for the Fun of It: Sketching with Watercolor presents an easy-to-understand approach that quickly familiarises beginners with basic materials, tools and techniques to get started. Illustrations, exercises and step-by-step demonstrations show how to achieve quick results by making sketches with various drawing media and with watercolour, as well as how to plan finished paintings using sketches and drawing. This is an important book as it addresses sketching with watercolour, a medium that provides a unique bridge between drawing and painting. Its immediacy of application and fabulous colours make it useful for both sketching and producing more finished paintings. Readers will learn how to draw preliminary sketches, thumbnail sketches, sideline sketches and watercolour sketches, all to learn patterns of light, composition, value, and the use of colour.