An ideal beginner's guide to painting boats and harbours in
watercolour for artists who are short on time.
This guide to painting boats and harbours in watercolour is ideal if you
want to learn to paint but are short on time.
Broken down into 33 quick and easy paintings that take no more than 30
minutes to complete, this basic course will teach you all the skills you
need to paint boats, yachts or barges on calm seas or raging waves,
including how to depict reflections in water or realistic surf. The
30-minute paintings are all worked at postcard size - ideal for a 6 x
4in (A6) watercolour pad, and tracings are included for those with
limited drawing skills. Each small painting is a work of art in its own
right, and can be stored in your portfolio for reference later, or
framed and hung on the wall to impress your friends.
The book is broken down into six chapters that focus, respectively, on
portraying skies and water, texture and effects, boats themselves, boat
and harbour details, waterside buildings and people and animals; through
the 33 projects the reader will also be introduced to some of the
techniques and tips that Charles Evans has learned along the way.
The final section of the book contains three complete paintings that
demonstrate how to combine all the techniques and elements of painting
boats and harbours, gleaned from the preceding chapters. These
paintings, too, are accompanied by actual-size tracings.
There are 33 tracings in all to help you compose your own paintings of
boats and harbours, and their details and environs.
