Watercolours in a Weekend Landscapes

by Frank Halliday

Book Overview

Beginners recognize that they need to acquire basic painting skills - but at the same time they are eager to produce a finished painting that they can hang on their walls. This popular 'weekend' formula allows them to do just that - to build skills gradually and produce an attractive, frameable painting in a limited amount of time. The author starts by introducing the materials required for painting watercolour landscapes, then leads readers through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715315382
• ISBN13: 9780715315385
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: David & Charles
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.0" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Nice book to learn or improve the basics of watercolor landscapes

This book is perfect for beginners who have some knowledge of watercolor painting. Not for the first time painter in my opinion. The book is extremely informative and divided into 8 project chapters, each teaching different aspects of landscape painting. For instance, project one teaches skies and clouds n chapter two, water. Chapter 3 mountains and lakes. Chapter 4 trees and foliage. Chapter 5 Buildings. Chapter 6 Reflections. Chapter 7 winter landscapes and finally chapter 8 Summer Landscapes. I appreciate the helpful advice and hints the book supplies without adding a lot of useless information not needed when learning how to paint. I believe that this is an excellent book for the beginner who wants to learn or improve their landscape skills.

Watercolors in a Weekend Landscapes

Well presented and very useful book for aspiring artists who want to creat something of useful worthiness

An Oustanding Beginner Book for learning Landscape Painting in Watercolor

This is a wonderful book for learning watercolor painting of landscapes. It is well-organized, has beautiful illustrations, simplifies instructions so that the beginner will not feel overwhelmed, and makes the lessons interesting and fun. It begins with basic techniques such as washes and brush techniques using a 3-step illustrated method. Mediums, masking, composition, linear perspective, aerial perspective, color are also briefly covered--just enough to get you started, but not to overwhelm the beginner. The author suggests a few basic color mixes for the most popular landscape subjects, and explains cool vs warm colors. Most of the book is devoted to allowing the reader hands-on painting experience with different landscape projects such as Project I--Skies and Clouds--clear sky, cumulus clouds, cirrus clouds, in a step-by-step method with clear and concise illustrations. Next, rainclouds and dramatic skies (beams of sunlight through clouds). This book simplifies watercolor painting so that it does not become overwhelming, but also, the beginner can attain beautiful results by the teacher's simplified methods of teaching, and the wonderful illustrated steps. BRIEFLY, here are some other exciting things you will learn in this great book. Country scene with a village visible in distance, water--sunlight on the water, reflections, moving water, waterfall, rough sea, moody sea, mountains and lakes (an exercise is given for learning tonal recession), mountain structure, snow, misty mountain exercise (a 5-step, 2 page lesson), early morning by the lake ( an 8-step, 4-page exercise), trees and foliage (a 5-step 2 page exercise on painting a winter tree ) another exercise on foliage, tree shapes, trees in a setting.. As the book progresses, each lesson/exercise builds on previous lessons and becomes more complex and detailed. Next, Buildings and textures (exercise in light and shade) (exercise in simple brickwork) windows. Then, a 6-page steped lesson on a provencial farm in 9 steps. Project 6 is Reflections with a lesson on "puddles on a farm track (5 steped lesson), next, buildings reflected in a flooded field --a 2-page exercise, reflected boats, reflections in a village pond, winter fields, etc. etc. This is a fantastic book for learning watercolor landscapes. I highly recommend it--the exercises are simplified but exciting. It's a great book!