This book teaches readers the 70 favorite painting techniques of a revered watercolor teacher, the late Zoltan Szabo. Using basic supplies in 56 step-by-step demonstrations, Szabo shows artists how to achieve special effects in their landscape paintings such as wispy clouds, falling snow, jagged rocks, trees and rolling surf. Readers will also learn the characteristics of different kinds of watercolor pigments and how they actually behave on paper.