Books
This beginner’s guide to painting the landscape in acrylics is ideal if you want to learn to paint but are short on time. Each of the 33 quick-and-easy studies takes no more than 30 minutes, and will teach you how to apply a crucial technique to your work, or paint a particular aspect of the landscape. The book also contains 3 larger paintings that demonstrate how to combine the elements learned into vibrant and inspiring landscapes of your own.
Build up your skills in easy stages, learning about form and composition, colour mixing, working with acrylics and capturing the drama of the natural world.
The exercises are all worked at postcard size - 6x4 inches (A6).
All the outlines are provided on tracing paper, so you can get started immediately.
Character, ambience and style add up to striking and memorable paintings. Expert artist Barry Herniman shares his secrets so you can invest your watercolours with all three. This new expanded edition of the book brings Barry’s stunning artwork to the fore with a sumptuous redesign, complete with new inspirational artworks and expanded information on colour mixing and watercolour techniques. Using a palette of vibrant and transparent colours, you can explore the effects of sunlight, shadows, mist and stormy skies in a mix of lanscapes from coast to woodlands, and from rural buildings to hidden nooks.
5 step-by-step projects.
Dozens of inspirational finished paintings.
All techniques clearly explained and demonstrated.