Ray's Top Tips for Watercolour Artists: 85 Essential Tips to Improve Your Painting - Couverture rigide

Smith, Ray Campbell

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 184448453X ISBN 13 : 9781844484539

Editeur : Search Press Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Ray Campbell Smith shares his years of experience in this book packed full of tips for watercolour painters. Learn all you need to know, from the the tools of the trade, choosing what to paint and avoiding and correcting mistakes, to how to paint skies, water, foliage and more. The tips are clearly presented and explained, and illustrated by many beautiful and accomplished paintings. They will help unravel the mysteries of the watercolour medium for those new to painting and also for more experienced watercolourists on the lookout for tips from a true master.

Spiral hardback: 96 pages

Dimensions: 21 x 16.2 x 1.8 cm

ISBN-13: 978-1844484539

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A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

A super book, really useful for anyone beginning in watercolour. Ray exhorts the artist to use only artist quality paints and paper, an excellent tip and I'm sure that use of inferior materials is the main reason so many people find watercolours difficult to work with. Ray makes suggestions as to what colours to purchase and that's very helpful, along with his advice on brushes and paper. Having purchased materials - what next? Ray covers use of sketchbooks and photographs, along with a simple viewfinder in order to select a painting subject and shows in a couple of simple paintings how moving position of trees or clouds help form a balanced and pleasing painting. He covers composition, tone, light and shade by way of simple easy to follow explanations accompanied by simple sketches showing what he means. This makes it effortless to understand and gives the artist confidence in what they are doing. This book has sections on shadows, colours and colour mixing, washes and dry brush work - all subjects to master and with Rays simple tips its easy to feel that you too can achieve pleasing paintings. The latter part of the book is devoted to simple tips on how to avoid mistakes like cauliflower runs, not mixing too many colours, painting skies and backgrounds, and adding subjects like tres and buildings into your work, and making them realistic and part of the scenery. An excellent book full of useful advice for all artists wanting to master watercolours. --www.jeanniezelos.com

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ray Campbell Smith is a prolific and versatile professional painter who specialises in the watercolour medium. More than forty one-man shows have been held, many in the wide-ranging list of galleries which regularly exhibit his work. His work is represented in many collections in the UK and abroad. As well as contributing regularly to leading art magazines, he gives lectures, demonstrations and criticisms to art groups. He has made many highly successful instructional videos and DVDs and has written numerous books on painting, including several major best-sellers. Ray is on the advisory panel of the Society of All Artists in the UK. He has appeared on TV on several occasions, once painting a landscape in the company of Mary Nightingale, and he was recently voted Artist of the Year by the Society of All Artists.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Search Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 184448453X
• ISBN 13: 9781844484539
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 96