Learn to Paint Coastal Landscapes is a new title in the best-selling Collins Learn to Paint series. It features many step-by-step exercises and demonstration paintings of seascapes in watercolour, oils and pastels.
This is a new title in Collins' recently relaunched 'Learn to Paint series'. It features many step-by-step exercises and demonstration paintings of seascapes in watercolour, gouache, oils and pastels.
Ray Balkwill is a popular artist and well-respected teacher, whose speciality is painting seascapes, estuaries, boats and harbours. In this book he demonstrates all the necessary techniques for painting successful coastal landscapes in watercolour, gouache, oils and pastels.
Contents include:
• Painting water and reflections
• Working from photographs
• Capturing movement
• Perspective and measuring
• Composition
• Tonal values
• Colour mixingThere are many practical exercises and step-by-step demonstration paintings of a variety of different seascapes, featuring cliffs and headlands, estuaries, and creeks, and boats and harbours. In addition there are useful sections on painting skies and the weather.
- ISBN13 9780007175598
- Publish Date 6 March 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Collins
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk