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.

Watercolour Landscapes Step-by-Step

Arts & Photography

Jelbert, Wendy

Kersey, Geoff

Herniman, Barry

Lowrey, Arnold

Dowden, Joe Francis

Campbell Smith, Ray

Painting

Search Press

Geoff Kersey shows people who have never picked up a paintbrush how to paint convincing watercolour landscapes using just 3 colours, 3 brushes, a plastic palette and a watercolour pad. Only 3 affordable Students range watercolour paints are used: light red, cadmium yellow pale and ultramarine blue; yet from these, Geoff shows how 9 realistic watercolour scenes can be painted. There is no colour theory or long-winded mixing information to put off the first-time painter, but a practical absolute beginner's course that shows the three colours in action. Only 3 affordable brushes are needed: no. 10, no. 4 and no. 2 rounds in a synthetic range, to achieve all of the paintings shown. Starting from the simplest of scenes, Geoff Kersey builds skills through 9 easy exercises, resulting in landscapes to be proud of. Start with a simple sky and progress through a basic scene with a reflected sunset, to landscapes that include simple buildings and even a figure. Clear advice and step-by-step photographs show how to add a simple figure to a scene and how to trace and transfer the basic drawings from the finished paintings, which are shown full size in the book for this purpose. Readers have everything they need to get painting.

Take Three Colours: Watercolour Landscapes: Start to paint with 3 colours, 3 brushes and 9 easy projects

A lavish expansion and update of Geoff Kersey's bestselling Perspective, Depth and Distance title in the Tips &amp; Techniques series, this new edition features substantially expanded chapters on the key aspects of perspective along with new artwork and two completely new step-by-step projects.

Painting Perspective, Depth & Distance in Watercolour

Skies are an important part of landscape paintings, setting the tone of the scene as a whole and often representing the dominant feature of the composition. In this revised and updated edition of Painting Skies which includes material from Geoffs Top Tops for Watercolour Artists, Geoff Kersey imparts his knowledge and expertise to artists of all abilities, demonstrating how to paint skies that give a sense of cohesion, place and atmosphere to your landscape paintings. Painting skies is also the best way to learn how watercolour behaves, and there is a large section at the start of the book that explains the techniques you need to produce a broad range of effects. Including a stormy sky, a summer sky, an evening glow, a sunset and low cloud. This comprehensive guide also includes information on the materials you need, drawing and sketching, using photographs, composition, colour and perspective, and throughout the book are examples of Geoffs finished artworks to provide inspiration and ideas for compositions of your own. The book finishes with six glorious, step-by-step projects to put into practice all you have learnt and give you the confidence to incorporate stunning skies into your own watercolour landscape paintings.

How to Paint Skies

Learn to paint trees and woodlands in thirty half-hour lessons with master artist Geoff Kersey. Tracings are provided to transfer to the paper or canvass. No drawing necessary! This complete beginner's guide to painting trees and woodlands scenes is ideal if you want to learn to paint but are short on time. 30 quick and easy exercises that each take no more than 30 minutes to complete offer you a complete course for all the skills you need to paint trees on their own and as part of beautiful scenes. The 30-minute paintings are all worked at postcard size - ideal for a 6 x 4in watercolor pad, and tracings are included for those with limited drawing skills. Each small painting is a work of art in its own right, and can be stored in your portfolio for reference later, or framed and hung on the wall to impress your friends. The final section of the book contains three complete paintings that demonstrate how to combine all the techniques and elements of painting landscapes, as gleaned from the preceding chapters. These paintings, too, are accompanied by actual-size tracings.

Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes: Trees & Woodlands in Watercolour

Even if you have never picked up a paintbrush before, Geoff Kersey shows you how to paint convincing seascapes in watercolour using just three brushes, three colours, a plastic palette and a watercolour pad. Only students range watercolour paints are used, yet from these Geoff shows you how to paint nine realistic watercolour scenes. There is no off-putting colour theory or long-winded mixing information, but a practical absolute beginners course that shows the three colours in action. You need only three affordable brushes: no. 10, no. 4 and no. 2 rounds in a synthetic range, to achieve all of the paintings shown. Let Geoff Kersey build your skills through nine easy exercises, starting from the simplest of scenes, resulting in seascapes you'll be proud of. With clear advice, step-by-step photographs showing simple techniques, how to trace and transfer a drawing, and finished paintings shown full size in the book for guidance, you will have everything you need to get painting.

Take Three Colours: Watercolour Seascapes: Start to paint with 3 colours, 3 brushes and 9 easy projects

Flexible pocket book of tips for watercolor artists of all abilities. Geoff Kersey shares his expertise in this book packed full of tips for watercolour painters. Learn all you need to know, from what to buy, composing a painting and mastering techniques such as wet into wet and dry brush work, to how to paint skies, water, trees, buildings and more. The tips are clearly explained and illustrated through artwork and step by step photographs. This title was previously published as Geoff's Top Tips for Watercolour Artists. In this new easy to use flexibinding format with an updated design, the books in the Watercolour Artists' Pocket Books series bring to you the best tips from Search Press's best-selling authors.

Geoff Kersey's Pocket Book for Watercolour Artists: Over 100 Essential Tips to Improve Your Painting (WATERCOLOUR ARTISTS' POCKET BOOKS)

Graphic Design

'These are simple books that make serious art easily accessible even for the raw beginner.' Praise from Henry Malt, Artbookreview A poster book, an art pad and a step-by-step painting book all rolled into one! 5 beautiful posters to pull out and frame, along with the watercolor outline and stage-by-stage instructions you need to paint each artwork for yourself. Have you always wanted to paint but think you don't have the skills or the time? Think again and paint side-by-side award-winning artist's work and create beautiful large painting of your own. This innovative new series gives you 5 beautiful (11x17") posters to pull out and frame, along with the ready-to-paint watercolor outline and illustrated stage-by-stage instructions you need to paint each artwork for yourself. In this title, choose from paintings by celebrated artist Geoff Kersey, and paint iconic scenes of London, Paris and New York. Follow the large, clear step-by-step instructions included for each flower, breaking down how to paint each section into manageable parts. Enjoy the freedom of pulling out these pages too, which you can then pin your work surface, for an even more effortless adventure. With finished artwork, step-by-step instructions and ready to paint outlines let this innovative title lead you into producing beautiful, frameable watercolor landscapes to amaze you and your friends. Guaranteed.

Paint Pad Poster Book: City Scenes

Watercolour Landscapes Step-by-Step (Step-by-Step Leisure Arts)

Dowden, Joe

60 beautiful, inspirational painting projects provide inspiration for the watercolor artist.\nThe Watercolour Sourcebook is a compilation of four selected titles from the What to Paint series, chosen specially to illustrate numerous scenes that can be conveyed in watercolour. 
The works of four master watercolourists – Geoff Kersey, Terry Harrison, Peter Woolley and Wendy Tait – are brought together in a collection of 60 beautiful, detailed projects on the subjects of trees, woodlands and forests; landscapes; hills and mountains and flowers respectively. Each project results in a full painting that is accompanied at the end of the book by a full-size outline that can be copied and applied to the artist's own watercolour paper using tracedown. 
The Watercolour Sourcebook aims to provide a wealth of inspiration to the painter who struggles to decide upon their subject matter, and arms the artist with everything they need to know about what they're about to paint, from colour palette to useful techniques.

Watercolour Sourcebook, The: 60 inspiring pictures to transfer and paint with full-size outlines (Welcome Back Alice, 2)

Harrison, Terry

Tait, Wendy

Woolley, Peter

Drawing

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