Collins Learn to Paint
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Book 1
This best-selling title will be relaunched in June 05 with a fresh new cover design. Alwyn Crawshaw has a very loyal following among amateur painters, and this book provides an essential introduction to this exciting subject.
Landscapes are a very popular and rewarding subject for painters of all abilities. Here well-known and respected TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw demonstrates all the basic techniques of painting landscapes in watercolour and oils.
The book includes many practical exercises and step-by-step demonstration paintings of a variety of different landscapes, featuring mountains, snow, meadows and water. There are also useful sections on sketching, painting skies and trees, and how to add buildings, people and animals to your landscape paintings.
Part of the essential Learn to Paint series, this book provides the best introduction to this fascinating subject.
Discover the excitement of painting in watercolour under the expert guidance of well-known TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw. This volume in the renowned Learn to Paint series is the only introduction you will need to the world of watercolours.
Each title in the best-selling 'Learn to Paint' series is written by a professional working artist and offers the leisure painter a personal course of art instruction. Here well-known and loved TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw clearly describes all the basic techniques of painting in watercolour, and provides many practical exercises and step-by-step demonstration paintings.
The book includes:
• advice on materials and equipment
• basic techniques and methods
• help with brush effects
• how to mix colours
• help with composition
This is the only guide you’ll need to learn how to paint watercolours with skill and confidence.
This best-selling title will be relaunched in September 04 with a fresh new cover design. Written by popular TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw, it is one of the four top-selling titles in the Learn to Paint series, and provides an ideal introduction to this essential skill.
Sketching is a vital artistic skill and painters of all standards need to be able to sketch. In this book Alwyn Crawshaw looks at all aspects of sketching on location, explaining how to use sketches either as works of art in their own right or as reference for later drawings or paintings.
Contents include:
* advice on sketching materials and equipment
* using pencil, charcoal, conte pencil, pen & ink and watercolour
* guidance on perspective
* help with design and composition
* sketching in colour
In addition, there are numerous practical exercises and several step-by-step demonstrations to encourage readers to put their new skills into practice.
