Metallic Watercolor: Create Shimmering Artwork with Metallic Paints

Artist Götz (Shiny Watercolor) demonstrates how to use metallic watercolors to add dynamic highlights to paintings. Starting with an overview of supplies, the book emphasizes the importance of selecting quality paint, paper, and brushes, and it helps readers understand the critical components of each. Encouraging readers to experiment with different brands of supplies, this guide touches on color theory and basic watercolor techniques before giving step-by-step instructions for 20 projects, each ranked by its level of difficulty. The author guides readers through painting her nature-based subjects with wet-on-dry or wet-on-wet techniques, recommending brush types and colors, and showing how to add metallic accents to projects, such as leaf veins, plant stems, wing patterns, and petals. Throughout the book, Götz’s beautiful paintings showcase her creative use of color to elevate simple motifs such as autumn leaves. These example paintings and straightforward instructions provide readers with ample inspiration, but the technical skill needed to emulate the book’s more challenging designs will likely intimidate some beginners.