An inspiring guide to creating successful landscapes and seascapes in
mixed media, including watercolour, pastels, wax crayons, ink and
acrylics.
Mixed media is ever growing in popularity. In this useful and insightful
book, artist and teacher Chris Forsey shows how to use this technique to
create stunning landscapes and seascapes. The book concentrates on
combining water-based media - watercolour, pastels, wax crayons, ink and
acrylics - to create an exciting and often unpredictable way to paint.
It allows the artist to create textures and effects that can exhilarate
the painting surface with unusual serendipitous washes, smears and
drifts of colour and tone.
The book encourages readers to experiment with media, wile providing
advice, instruction and step-by-step demonstrations to show how to get
the best from two, three or four different media working together. The
introduction helps the reader determine what they wish to achieve in a
painting. The following chapters then goes on to focus on one of the
media combinations: wax crayon and watercolour; oil pastel, watercolour
and acrylic; oil pastel and acrylics; oil pastel, watercolour, ink and
acrylics.
Featuring plenty of step-by-step demonstrations on how to combine the
materials, with finished examples of finished paintings. The book offers
the reader an array of ways to improve their landscape and seascape
painting, taking it to a new level.
