Step-by-Step Leisure Arts
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Ray Campbell Smith shows how wonderful watercolour is for painting the character and beauty of buildings. He offers invaluable insights into capturing the essence of his subject, whether it is a group of rugged fishermen's cottages, Venetian buildings or a quiet sunlit scene. Detailed step-by-step photographs are accompanied by helpful text and inspirational paintings, so you will soon be able to develop your own style whatever your skill level.
Watercolour Landscapes Step-by-Step
by Geoff Kersey, Wendy Jelbert, Arnold Lowrey, Ray Campbell Smith, Barry Herniman, and Joe Dowden
This comprehensive guide to painting landscapes in watercolour features the expert tuition of 6 renowned watercolourists. It covers materials, colour, watercolour techniques such as wet into wet, spattering, dry brush, lifting out and using salt, composition, planning a paintingk sketching, perspecive, tone and painting trees, water, seas, skies and buildings, as well as mood and atmosphere. There are eleven beautiful step by step demonstrations.
He explains all his techniques clearly, from the initial planning and composition of a picture, to choosing colours, applying washes and capturing the glorious subtlety and glow of nature. Dry brush work, splayed brushwork and wet-in-wet are all included, with clear and helpful text accompanied by inspirational paintings and over 50 step-by-step demonstrations. Whatever your skill level, you will be able to develop your own style with this informative, richly-illustrated book.
However brilliant the brushwork and the use of colour - a painting will never succeed if the basic drawing is flawed. In this book you will find helpful information on how to translate a three-dimensional world on to a two-dimensional surface. There's helpful information on drawing buildings and boats, perspective in nature, painting distance, creating a composition and more.
Watercolour Painting Step-by-Step
by Jackie Barrass, Richard Bolton, Ray Campbell Smith, Frank Halliday, Wendy Tait, and Bryan Thatcher
This is a practical and comprehensive guide for all watercolour enthusiasts, from the beginner who wishes to explore this popular painting medium to the experienced artist looking for inspiration and ideas. Starting with advice on materials, colour and composition, the book goes on to describe basic and more advanced techniques and the wonderful effects they can produce. Fourteen easy-to-follow, step-by-step demonstrations show the reader how to paint skies, trees, water, buildings and flowers, and each section is accompanied by a selection of inspirational paintings by the seven featured artists, in a rich variety of styles.
Originally published as 'Working with Watercolour', this book uses material from the 'Leisure Arts' series.