In the first three chapters, Burt takes you through the entire painting process, exploring everything from concept to design principles and color schemes. You'll learn how to paint using pigment puddles and a simplified palette. Hands-on exercises show pure, clean colors allowed to mix on paper, as well as the vibrancy of colors not allowed to mix.Chapter Four brings it all together in 11 step-by-step demonstrations. Lay out your pigments and puddles just as Burt shows you in Chapter Two and follow along. You'll work from light to dark in four stages, painting around saved color and saved whites on dry paper. The demonstrations illustrate focal points, high chroma colors with opposites, values, shapes, directions, texture, compositions, readability, lucidity of statement, and other strategies for making your painting "entertaining" to viewers. Read Less