David Bellamy's Winter Landscapes: in Watercolour - Softcover

Bellamy, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844487032 ISBN 13: 9781844487035

Publisher: Search Press, 2014

Synopsis

This is David Bellamy’s favourite time for being out sketching, often in watercolour. In this book he explains the challenges and joys of capturing winter subjects, from how to achieve rapid pencil sketches in less than perfect conditions to painting in watercolour on the spot. Snow completely changes the landscape, simplifying it for the artist, creating marvellous opportunities for reflected light and subtle use of exciting colours. The book begins with the stunning warm colours of late autumn, then moves into the second section covering winter scenes without snow. The following deep mid-winter section shows you how to tackle snow scenes with various types of snow conditions, before we move on to the final section covering early spring.

Also covered is gearing up for working outdoors in winter, techniques for rendering hoar frost on trees, misty and atmospheric effects, injecting rogue colours to add excitement to your work, how to tackle a variety of tree branches for different species, depicting light branches against dark backgrounds, altering the composition to suit your needs, and so much more. For those who really don’t wish to venture out, even on the mildest of winter days, there is a whole host of examples of winter landscapes to help you tackle this fascinating time of year.

A DVD entitled Winter Landscapes in Watercolour has been produced as a companion to this book, and is available from David's website www.davidbellamy.co.uk or from APV Fiilms at www.apvfilms.com

About this title

About the Author

David Bellamy has always been fascinated by the world's wild places. Highly regarded as a teacher of art, he has a tremendous following among leisure painters, many of whom have attended his extremely popular courses and workshops both in the UK and overseas. He gives demonstrations and talks, produces successful DVDs, has written many books on watercolour painting and is a regular contributor to art magazines. David lives in Builth Wells, Wales.

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* Well-known, expert watercolour tutor and popular author
* Stunning paintings and in-depth advice.
* Four beautiful step-by-step projects
* Covers late fall, winter, deep midwinter and early spring

Edition details

• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1844487032
• ISBN 13: 9781844487035
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 80