Studio Vista Beginner's Guides
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Painting landscapes is largely a matter of seeing shapes, colours and textures in harmonious relationship to each other. This guide show the beginner how to unlock the potential from what they see and to use watercolour creatively and freely. No experience or knowledge is necessary.
This is one of the first two titles in a series specially created to provide the most effective contemporary introduction to painting skills. Aimed at the broadest base of the teach-yourself amateur artist market, the "Beginners Guides" lead the way into an understanding of the basic principles and techniques of their subjects. Combining full colour step-by-step and inspirational material throughout, this book aims to offer the beginner an accessible, enjoyable way to take up oil painting. Illustrated on every spread with hundreds of pictures taken specially for the book, it covers canvases and other supports, brushes and paints, using and mixing colour, underpainting, composition and all the exciting techniques of oil painting. Three projects show step-by-step how to develop your approach to specific subjects.
All visual art depends on expressing aspects of light in some form - a challenge that absorbs, puzzles and sometimes confounds the artist. This book is an attempt to capture this most elusive phenomena, with a variety of artists explaining what light means to them. Discussing aspects such as painting shadows and exploiting colour temperature they indicate how the reader too can explore light and render it in watercolour.
The ability to draw, a fundamental skill, is often neglected in the rush towards more advanced techniques, but without it no artist can achieve convincing results. Creating shapes and structures, light and shade, perspective and composition are demonstated in different styles, using the simplest of materials, to create a book suited to the beginner.