David Webb provides an inspirational and practical guide to painting beautiful still life pictures in watercolours and shows how to capture the exciting qualities of this wonderful medium. Using many step-by-step photographs he illustrates all the basic techniques, explaining how to paint reflective surfaces, smooth surfaces, textures and more. The book takes you through all the stages, from simple brush strokes to final details. Whatever your skill level you will be able to develop your own style using the demonstrations and exercises featured in these pages.

David Webb specialised in extremely detailed natural history illustrations for many years. He then changed to pure watercolour and took to the much looser, freer style shown in this book. He now runs painting holidays and workshops and demonstrates around the UK, and his work is displayed in a number of galleries.