How to Paint Landscapes Quickly and Beautifully in Watercolor and Gouache

Author: Nathan Fowkes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781624650499
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
How to Paint Landscapes Quickly and Beautifully with Watercolor and Gouache reveals quick and effective painting setups and techniques to depict any landscape. From simplifying complex scenes and making smart choices about portraying light and texture, to establishing an effective color palette to enhance mood, world-renowned entertainment and fine artist Nathan Fowkes shares priceless lessons that he has developed over twenty five years of painting a broad range of places. His detailed tutorials and thoughtful insights will help you create more impactful, gallery-worthy landscapes on location--without an easel--in record time.

Gouache in 4 Easy Steps

Author: Anna Koliadych
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 1645672344
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 439

Book Description
15-Minute Watercolor Masterpieces, Anna’s first book, is one of our strongest selling titles. She made watercolor approachable, fun and easier than ever—and now she’s doing the same with the latest painting trend, gouache. A marriage between acrylics and watercolor, gouache is the next big thing in the art world—it’s easier to control than watercolor and allows for richer pigments and easy fixes, making it a great option for beginners. Anna shows you just how magical gouache can be—and each of her 50 projects can be completed in just five easy-to-follow steps. Divided into chapters on beautiful landscapes, colorful flowers and plants, cute animals and more, readers will have a big variety of projects to choose from. And each step is accompanied by an image, making it even easier for readers to follow along. Anna is the founder of DearAnnArt, an online art community with hundreds of thousands of followers.

Creating Luminous Watercolor Landscapes

Author: Sterling Edwards
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440310165
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
How to paint your world in watercolor…and have fun doing it! The day Sterling Edwards watched an artist paint an entire sky with three deft brushstrokes was the day he committed to trading his tiny oil brushes and photorealistic style in favor of big, bold strokes of watercolor. In the years since, he's developed not only a wonderfully fresh, luminous painting style, but also an approach that takes the intimidation out of this beautiful but often-mystifying medium. In this book, he shares both. • Initial chapters lay the foundation for successful paintings, from choosing the right brushes to achieving vibrant colors, interesting textures and strong compositions. • Step-by-step demonstrations illustrate techniques for painting rocks, skies, trees, foliage, buildings, water and other landscape elements. • An easy-to-follow, four-step painting process makes for easier starts and stronger finishes, complete with rich darks and sparkling highlights. • Eight complete painting projects cover a range of breathtaking scenes and seasons. Whether you're dipping into the medium for the first time or you're a watercolor devotee on a quest for clearer color and more personal statements, this book will help you make the most of the time you spend with brush in hand.

Painting Landscapes with Watercolor

Author: Vincenc Ballestar
Publisher: North Light Books
ISBN: 9780966638363
Category : Landscape painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Painting Landscapes with Watercolor is a wonderfully expressive book, opening up all of the creative possibilities that landscapes offer to the watercolorist. Ballestar, an accomplished artist, succeeds in teaching exactly how to use the transparent, free-flowing nature of watercolor to generate landscapes with great emotional appeal. * Sound advice on selecting materials, learning basic techniques, making first sketches * Sixteen brilliant step-by-step demos put key concepts into practice * Examples of watercolors by world-renowned artists add variety and inspiration * Close-ups detail how to paint snow, windy skies, mountains and reflections on water Readers will discover how to capture the light that personalizes a landscape and enliven their scenes with dynamic movement and color. No matter their level of experience, watercolor artists will treasure this indispensable reference. Vincenc Ballestar is an award-winning master watercolorist from Barcelona, Spain and the current president of the Watercolor Society of the province of Catalonia. In addition to teaching courses on painting, Ballestar has authored dozens of art instruction books, including Painting the Unposed Figure in Watercolor. David Sanmiguel is an editor and designer of more than 25 art instruction books. He also works as an art critic for various national newspapers.

Painting with Gouache

Author: Michael Sanders
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781844480463
Category : Gouache painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Michael Sanders introduces this hugely versatile opaque medium and demonstrates how techniques such as wet into wet, wet on dry, masking, sgraffito and spattering can be used to create beautiful paintings. He goes on to explain how tone, colour and composition work in a painting and shows how to use gouache to paint a landscape, wild flowers and a Mediterranean river scene. Experienced painters and beginners to the art will be inspired by his clear advice and beautiful paintings to try gouache for themselves.

Beautiful Landscape Painting Outdoors

Author: Michael Chesley Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781684620456
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Many painters enjoy working outdoors when the weather is good (and they need to know how to deal with it when the weather changes)! This book includes the best instruction on the special challenges of painting landscapes outdoors from a variety of the best plein-air artists working today in all major media-oil, pastel, watercolor, acrylic and gouache. - Materials, site selection and practical tips - Values, shapes, composition, color and elements of landscape painting - Bringing outdoor studies back into the studio - Complete start-to-finish demonstrations - Hundreds of gorgeous images"--

Painting Nature with Clare

Author: Clare Therese Gray
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 1645673715
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 444

Book Description
Make nature inspired masterpieces with this friendly all-in-one guide to gouache. From ferns and flowers to seascapes and songbirds, create charming paintings alongside popular designer and illustrator Clare Therese Gray. This book is packed with stunning illustrations accompanied by detailed instructions so that readers can enjoy each step of the way in creating their own painted masterpieces. You will learn to capture the world around you with Clare’s signature, whimsical style, ideal for gifts, invitations, greeting cards and more. Paint woodland mushrooms, beautiful botanicals or calming pastel landscapes; each project is broken into simple steps so you can enjoy the process and let go of perfection. Similar to watercolor yet easier to control, gouache is a fun and approachable medium for artists of any skill level. You’ll find 25 unique tutorials for creating enchanting relaxing artwork. Pieces are organized from beginner—like a jam jar of wildflowers—to advanced—like a twilight owl scene—so you can grow in confidence and expertise as you paint through each chapter. The book includes a thorough introductory section covering everything you need to get started: choosing and mixing colors, handling paint, selecting brushes and mastering basic techniques. Let your creativity soar from riverbed to treetop and beyond with this gorgeous guide to gouache.

Painting Beautiful Watercolor Landscapes

Author: Joyce Hicks
Publisher: North Light Books
ISBN: 9781440329579
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 127

Book Description
A full-color guide teachers budding artists how to paint beautiful scenes with 12 step-by-step demonstrations from a master artist.

Creating Textured Landscapes with Pen, Ink and Watercolor

Author: Claudia Nice
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 160061633X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
Capture the Rich Textures of Nature, Step by Step Capture nature's beauty as you never have before. Beloved artist and teacher Claudia Nice leads you on an inspired journey through the great outdoors. With paints in hand, she shares with you her best techniques for creating landscapes that come alive with richness, depth and textured detail. Open this guide and start painting right away. As you follow engaging, step-by-step demonstrations and exercises, you'll learn to recreate the textural elements of a range of terrains and landscapes. Chapters include: • Creative clouds and skies • Majestic mountains, hills and mesas • Texturing trees, trunks and foliage • Rugged rocks and gritty gravel • Transparent textures for rivers, falls and lakes • Flowers of the field In a special section, Claudia covers basic texturing techniques with mini demos using lines, dots, bruising, scribbling, spattering, blotting, printing, stamping and more. From paints and pens to sponges, leaves and facial tissue, you'll explore all kinds of fun and inventive ways to create amazing textures. And to help you put it all together, Claudia includes her masterful advice for creating compositions using reference photos, field sketches and your own creative license. Each demonstration features a large image of the completed landscape, so you can see exactly how Claudia's methods work - from start to finish.

Get Up & Gouache

Author: Jessica Smith
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1781577803
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
Get Up & Gouache shows you how to bring the vibrant and versatile medium of gouache to life. Get stuck in to 20 step-by-step projects that show you how to layer, blend and bloom in order to create beautiful and lively paintings ideal for prints, cards, gifts or simply the pleasure of painting. Packed with tips, tricks and techniques, Get Up & Gouache is ideal for beginners as well as providing inspiration for intermediate-level artists. Learn how to paint people and places and discover your own visual language. Find inspiration through projects on painting friends and family, flowers and nature and even your favourite furry friends.