Buildings -- old and new, ornate or simple -- provide an endlessly intriguing subject for watercolorists. Author and artist Richard Taylor gives you all the skills and techniques for capturing perspective, proportion, light and shade, detail and texture. After deciding on the right materials, try your hand at courtyards, quadrangles, and cloisters; formal architecture: domestic and seaside buildings; and street life..Make wood look weather-beaten produce the cool appearance of stone, and add reflections to windows. Throughout, 120 paintings in various stages of completion guide you, showing the effects of color, shadowing and balance. A Selection of F & W's North Light Book Club.
- ISBN10 071531355X
- ISBN13 9780715313558
- Publish Date 28 April 2002 (first published 31 October 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint David & Charles
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English