A guide to landscape painting for complete beginners with simple
exercises.
Hazel Soan is a hugely successful painter and an outstanding teacher and
author of art books, which have introduced the wonders of art to a
generation of amateur artists. In this book she teaches you how to get
to grips with watercolour landscapes in the space of an afternoon.
The book explores the basics of watercolour landscapes with lots of
simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations that are perfect for
beginners. That life-long ambition of painting somewhere that is
important to you can become a possibility with the help of this nifty
little book.
Topics covered include creating space, composition and focus, light and
shadows, colours of the landscape and the mixing of watercolours.
Watercolour painting techniques such as painting en plein air,
brushwork, creating texture, wet into wet and wet on dry are explained.
The book also explores specific landscape themes such as skies, foliage,
forests, gardens, seascapes, wilderness, sunsets, urban landscapes,
panoramas, sunsets and many more.