Painting Wild Landscapes in Watercolour - Hardcover

Bellamy, David

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9780007175536: Painting Wild Landscapes in Watercolour

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007175531 ISBN 13: 9780007175536

Publisher: Collins, 2005

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David Bellamy has a tremendous following among amateur painters and in this comprehensive, practical guide he shows the reader how to paint his favourite subject – wild landscapes. It will enable artists of all levels to tackle this fascinating subject with confidence.

Having travelled extensively in India, the Himalayas, the Middle East, Africa, the USA and Europe, David Bellamy has painted in many remote and beautiful places. In this book he shares some of those extraordinary painting experiences with the reader.

The book is both a practical and an inspirational guide to painting mountains, deserts, jungle, gorges and other wilderness areas. It contains many tips and techniques for watercolour painting, not only for all those who enjoy painting in wild places but also for all those armchair artists who would like to paint wilder landscapes but don’t want to trek into the wilderness to do it.

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This is an impressive book - another bestseller, I'm sure. -- Leisure Painter magazine, October 2005

Synopsis:

David Bellamy has a tremendous following among amateur painters and in this book he shows the reader how to paint his favourite subject - wild landscapes. David Bellamy's previous books have sold extremely well; Watercolour Landscape Course (60,000 copies sold), Developing Your Watercolours (31,000) and Learn to Paint Landscapes in Watercolour (40,000). This new book is both a practical and an inspirational guide to painting mountains, deserts and wilderness. It contains many tips and techniques for artists of all levels, both for the practicalities of painting in the wild but also for all those armchair artists who want to paint wilder landscapes but don't want to trek into the wilds to do it. Having travelled extensively in India, the Himalayas, the Middle East, Africa, the US and Europe, David Bellamy has painted in many remote and beautiful places. In this book he shares some of those extraordinary painting experiences with the reader and also shows them in step-by-step directions how to achieve similar paintings themselves.

Contents include: Materials Painting Pictures Working out of doors The armchair adventurer Walking to paint wild places Expeditions to paint wild scenery Gallery of paintings.

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