Product Description: Lively skies, misty woodlands, country lanes, quiet harbours and soft reflections - these and more are presented by well-known artist Ray Campbell Smith as he shows how to capture the freshness and beauty of watercolours in his own distinctive style...read more

However brilliant the brushwork and the use of colour - a painting will never succeed if the basic drawing is flawed. In this book you will find helpful information on how to translate a three-dimensional world on to a two-dimensional surface. There's helpful information on drawing buildings and boats, perspective in nature, painting distance, creating a composition and more.

Product Description: Ray Campbell Smith's many admirers will want to buy this concise round-up of his top tips. The book covers all aspects of watercolour painting in 85 easy to follow tips and offers expert advice in an accessible form, with over 140 beautiful and instructive illustrations...read more

Product Description: Fully restyled and revised for the twenty-first century artist. The Artist's Handbook is packed with information on the traditional art methods of drawing, painting, and printmaking together with significant modern art techniques such as digital photography, digital printing, and digital image manipulation...read more

Product Description: Ray Campbell Smith shows how to capture the freshness and beauty of watercolors and a wonderful range of buildings in his own distinctive style. He explains all his techniques clearly, from the initial planning and composition of a picture, to choosing colors, applying washes and portraying the different effects of age and weathering...read more

This teaching guide features 50 of the author's watercolours accompanied by explanatory text, working sketches and details. He describes the methods and materials he uses to paint them and demonstrates how he employs fluent brushwork and a limited palette to distil a scene down to its essentials.

Product Description: Using easy-to-follow step-by-step demonstrations and many different paintings, Ray Campbell Smith shows how to create stunning paintings full of atmosphere and feeling. The margin between land and sea has fascinated and inspired artists over the years and it still retains its unique magic...read more

Presents step-by-step instructions on the art of painting landscapes using watercolor. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Misty landscapes, vibrant flowers, mountain lakes and sunlit lanes - these and many more subjects are presented in this practical, easy-to-follow book, in which a selection of well-known artists interpret what they see. They discuss and illustrate everything in a lively, informative way, with expert guidance on all aspects of watercolour painting from laying washes and dry brush techniques to creating beautiful pictures full of light and atmosphere...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Analyzing 50 of his watercolours, and tracking his methods and technique along the way, the author suggests how to approach painting sessions to get improved results. Describing how he proceeds, from the moment he first sees a scene to putting the final touches to the painting, he discusses the importance of preliminary sketches, planning the approach carefully, and simplifying the scene effectively...read more

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Covers color, perspective, composition, subject selection, atmosphere, washes, and watercolor techniques

Product Description: Analyzing 50 of his watercolours, and tracking his methods and technique along the way, the author suggests how to approach painting sessions to get improved results. Describing how he proceeds from the moment he first sees a scene to putting the final touches to the painting, he discusses the importance of preliminary sketches, planning the approach carefully, and simplifying the scene effectively...read more

Product Description: A guide to watercolour techniques for beginners and those dissatisfied by their progress. Shows how materials can affect technique, offers advice on composition, perspective and tone, and demonstrates how watercolour is the ideal medium for capturing, spontaneously and directly, effects of light...read more

Product Description: Style is the quality that distinguishes one painter's work from another's. Just as people evolve their own distinctive handwriting, so in time painters develop an individual style. Aspiring watercolourists seeking an effective style often go about it the wrong way - commonly by trying to copy artists they admire - and this book offers them advice...read more