Discover a world of innovation beyond pure watercolor with over 60 exciting approaches and exercises from the master of watercolor landscapes, David Bellamy.
‘In this book I aim to illustrate ways in which to make your watercolors glow with excitement, offer you new methods of working, and at the same time make the whole experience great fun!’ David Bellamy
David Bellamy is a successful and long-standing authority on the landscape in watercolor. Throughout this book, he shares his extensive knowledge and experience and encourages confident artists to explore the boundaries of watercolor and forge new creative paths for themselves through experimentation.
Alongside over 100 inspiring examples of David’s work, there are more than 60 innovative approaches and exercises, with tips, visual examples, and step-by-step techniques throughout the following sections:
Starting traditional: Explore the basics in a new way – gain experience using just one color, work with a limited palette, then tackle the striking results you can achieve with harmonious colors.
Developing your style: Learn how to combine watercolor with gouache and use additives, inks, collage, pastels, stamping, gesso, watercolor ground, different surfaces, and found materials to create atmospheric, innovative results, for example, for suggesting distant rain or creating dramatic sunlight effects.
Interpreting and altering your subjects: Discover how to change the light or colors in a finished painting, introduce features that are not present or emphasize those that are, exaggerate perspective, or turn part of the composition into abstraction. Learn how to alter, rescue, and improve a painting where you may have a problem, or decide to change a passage on a whim.
Taking it further: This section is devoted to projects that you might like to consider – personal projects that may relate to your family, your holidays, volunteer work, or perhaps involving the local community or a special cause.
Watercolor and Beyond is an innovative, practical book aimed at equipping landscape artists of all abilities with exciting new ideas and techniques.
Pages: 160, Dimensions: 21.6x21.6cm
Manufacturer
- Author
- David Bellamy
- Publisher
- Search Press Ltd
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 160
- Release Date
- 13/05/2025
- Publication Date
- 2025
- Dimensions
- -
- Award
- -
- Audience
- adults
- Illustrated Books
- No
- ISBN-13
- 9781800923003
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