Best-selling author and artist Claudia Nice shows readers how to create incredible art in watercolor, pen and ink. She makes it easy by covering all the drawing and painting basics -- from materials and texture techniques to color theory and special effects. It's a one-of-a-kind course in making extraordinary art.Nice provides guidelines, advice and techniques for rendering hundreds of favorite places, environments and animals with incredible detail, including: -Transparent images such as glass, eyes and water-Silver, brass, gold, copper, bronze and rusted metal-Earth and stone textures, including soil, sand and gravel-Skies and weather-Fields, flowers, trees, forests and wood grain patterns-Tide pools, tropical reefs, fish and animals-Deserts, ponds, swamps, marshes and mountainsIt's no exaggeration to say that this incredible volume -- a compilation collecting some of the finest instruction from Nice's other best-selling books -- contains enough instruction, inspiration and gorgeous art to keep readers drawing, painting and enjoying the outdoors for years to come.