Hazel Soan is a well-known & popular artist & an enthusiastic & inspirational teacher. In The Essence of Watercolour Hazel shows how wonderfully versatile & beguiling the medium of watercolour is & how to get the most out of it. Hazel stresses how important it is to understand the characteristics of the medium in order to exploit it to the full. She encourages the reader to explore the properties of watercolour & to be unafraid of strength of colour & brushstroke. Hazel shows through demonstration & projects that tone is king in watercolour & illustrates how to paint light with the use of shade. Armed with this understanding she demonstrates that watercolour is not such an unforgiving medium after all: accidents & mistakes can be disguised overridden & corrected. The Essence of Watercolour is a culmination of many years of Hazels teaching & demonstrating in which she offers inspirational insights into the secrets of watercolour painting & encourages artists to take their art to the next level.