Learn to Paint Landscapes (Collins Learn to Paint)

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Collins

<p>This is an updated paperback edition of top TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw's guide to watercolour painting. Covering everything that the beginner needs to know in 32 comprehensive lessons, it has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide. Starting with the basics, readers are encouraged to work through each lesson in turn, enabling them to gradually improve their technique and gain in confidence. Alwyn Crawshaw explains each process clearly and offers advice and encouragement at every stage. The book includes: / A series of practical lessons covering all the basic watercolour methods and techniques / Simple exercises and several step-by-step painting demonstrations, with clear and detailed instructions / Revealing examples of 'what went wrong', showing how to avoid common painting problems / A wide variety of subjects - trees, water, skies, flowers, buildings, people, boats and animals</p>

Alwyn Crawshaw's Watercolour Painting Course

HARPER/COLLINS

A brush with art: a beginner's guide to watercolour painting

Linked to the Anglia television series, in which Crawshaw re-presents many of the painter's well-known scenes, this book aims to give a all round picture of Constable's life, times and work. Each chapter is linked to a specific aspect of his life and work.

Crawshaw Paints Constable Country

Harpercollins

This beginner's guide to painting with acrylics is part of a series which offers step-by-step demonstrations, easy-to-follow advice and hints, and tips and techniques from working artists.

Acrylics

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

All landscape painters like to paint directly from nature and here Alwyn and June Crawshaw show the reader how to deal with all the problems of painting outdoors, even the weather! The book is divided into different sections, each dealing with a popular aspect of landscape painting: coping with changing light; working with greens; painting trees and water; creating atmosphere; working in a hot climate; and painting complicated scenes. Forty step-by-step demonstrations in the most popular painting mediums are included.

Alwyn and June Crawshaw's Outdoor Painting Course

June Crawshaw

Full of easy-to-follow exercises and demonstrations, this guide is part of a series that aims to give even the most hesitant of beginners the enthusiasm and confidence to start painting in watercolour. All the instruction is broken down into really easy step-by-step exercises to help you to practise and build up your knowledge and expertise of painting gradually. For example, you learn how to paint a tree in three easy stages, then a cloudy sky and finally how to paint a simple foreground, so that in the end you can paint a complete landscape. With simple exercises, Alwyn Crawshaw takes the reader by the hand and explains exactly how to paint all the separate features of a picture, one-by-one.

Watercolour : A Step-By-Step Guide for Absolute Beginners

A new title in the Collins "You Can Paint" series of painting books for absolute beginners. Written by well-known artist-teachers, these start with real basics and assume no knowledge or experience of painting whatsoever. Full of easy-to-follow exercises and demonstrations, the book aims to give even the most hesitant of beginners the enthusiasm and confidence to start painting landscapes. All the instruction is broken down into easy step-by-step exercises to help you to practise and build up your knowledge and expertise of painting gradually. Alwyn Crawshaw takes the reader by the hand and shows, with simple staged exercises, exactly how to paint all the separate elements of a landscape one by one. For example, you learn how to paint trees, clouds, rocks, paths, mountains, lakes and rivers in watercolour and by the end of the book you should be able to produce a landscape in watercolour that you can be proud of.

You Can Paint Landscapes in Watercolour : A Step-By-Step Guide for Absolute Beginners

You Can Paint Watercolour will give even the most hesitant of beginners the confidence to pick up a brush and start painting. Alwyn Crawshaw takes the reader through all the basic colour mixing and watercolour techniques, and with easy step-by-step exercises explains how to paint the separate elements of a picture one by one.  First, learn how to paint simple still life subjects such as fruit, flowers and features of the landscape, like skies and trees. Then, with stage-by-stage demonstrations to show you how to combine these elements into a painting, it won't be long before you can produce watercolours to be proud of.

Watercolour: Step-By-Step Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner

<p>Do you want to make quick sketches in pencil or watercolour? This practical guide for beginners, in a sketchbook format, shows you how to achieve successful sketches in just 30 minutes.</p>

Sketching (Collins 30 Minute)

Drawing

Harpercollins Reference Hbacks

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