Advice on composing and texturing panoramas and close-ups - with suggested projects and exercises.
'Country Landscapes In Watercolour' is a fresh, adventurous approach to landscape painting for artists, art students and hobbyists who are already familiar with basic techniques and would like to paint landscapes in a new and challenging way.
With 112 colour plates and 40 black-and-white illustrations, the book beings with a review of basic watercolour techniques through seven step-by-step colour demonstrations. Each painting deals with a different type of terrain and describes treatments and solutions to typical problems,with particular emphasis on design and composition, textures, mood and lighting effects. In the second section, these techniques are applied to painting farms and cottages in specific locales - gentle woodlands, stormy mountains, flat coastal regions and rugged moorlands.
Throughout the author explains how to observe and interpret the landscape and bring out its unique characteristics. The paintings are followed by general suggestions for painting similar regions. In the final section, the emphasis is on painting close-ups of man-made elements in the land and on learning how to handle the textures and abstract patterns of specific farmland details such as doors, gates, windows and machinery.
