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.
