Take Three Colours: Watercolour Snow Scenes

Author: Grahame Booth
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1782216995
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Popular artist and author Grahame Booth shows you how to paint nine wonderful snow scenes, using just three brushes and three colours Beautiful snow scenes make wonderful subjects for watercolour artists, yet they are often thought by beginners to be too difficult to paint. Popular artist and author Grahame Booth shows you how, using just three brushes, three colours and nine fantastic projects. Any colour can be mixed from just blue, red and yellow, and in this easy-to-follow book, Grahame shows you how to mix all the colours you need to paint stunning snow scenes. Starting with a basic tool kit of three brushes, a mixing palette, watercolour paper and of course three tubes of paint, Grahame guides you step-by-step through nine projects, starting with a simple scene and progressing on to more complex ones. Even if you have never picked up a paintbrush, you will be amazed at what you will achieve by the end of this book. And along the way you will have learnt all the skills you need to start painting wonderful snow scenes of your own.

Watercolour Step-by-step

Author: Hazel Harrison
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780004128016
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Acting as a personal tutor, the author of this book takes readers, step-by-step, through all the principles and techniques of watercolour painting. In this way, complete beginners to the medium can build up their confidence and skills gradually by being shown how to paint everything from landscapes and still life to animals and portraits. The book also includes information on planning pictures, making a picture and correcting mistakes.

Painting Watercolour Snow Scenes the Easy Way

Author: Harrison
Publisher: Search Press Limited
ISBN: 1781265380
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages :

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Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner

Author: Palmer
Publisher: Search Press Limited
ISBN: 180093047X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Take Three Colours: Watercolour Landscapes

Author: Geoff Kersey
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1782212973
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

Basic Watercolor Techniques

Author: Greg Albert
Publisher: Northlight
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
Intended for beginners, this book offers suggestions on equipment and techniques for creating different textures, and gives tips on how to actually see what is being painted.

Ready to Paint Watercolour Landscapes

Author: Terry Harrison
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1844482650
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Readers who want to learn to paint but can not rely on their drawing skills have everything they need in this book. The outlines of five paintings (plus one bonus picture) are provided to pull out from the centre of the book. Clear instructions and step-by-step photographs show how to transfer the outlines on to watercolour paper and then how to create beautiful watercolour paintings.

Watercolour Landscapes

Author: David Bellamy
Publisher: HarperCollins (UK)
ISBN: 9780007182930
Category : Landscape painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
David Bellamy has a tremendous following among amateur painters, and this book features the most popular painting subject as well as the most popular medium. In this book, Bellamy covers everything the beginner needs to know about the subject, including advice on basic materials and palette, simple exercises on watercolour techniques, advice on painting trees, skies, water, people, birds and animals, and tips on how to work from photographs and working on location.

Ready to Paint with Terry Harrison

Author: Terry Harrison
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1800920156
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The distilled teachings of one of hobby art's masters, Terry Harrison. Everything you need to learn to paint like a pro! Terry Harrison's painting style and easy-going humor makes painting fun again. Pick up a brush, pull out one of the included outlines, and before you know it, you'll have a painting you can be proud to hang on your wall! This collection of Terry Harrison's highly-successful Ready to Paint books expands on the rock-solid painting advice in the originals by including all of Terry's clever and simple techniques. Together with more information on his preferred materials, the book makes painting the huge range of landscapes and rural scenes included approachable and enjoyable. The book includes pull-out outline paper that you can transfer to watercolor paper (full instructions on how to do so are included) for the projects, and Terry's beautiful artworks are scattered throughout for inspiration.

Watercolour Landscapes Step-by-Step

Author: Geoff Kersey
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1782217851
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.