Product Description

Here, in one paperback, are 135 self-contained lessons from three highly successful volumes by this artist-photographer team: The Watercolorist's Guide To Painting Water, The Watercolorist's Guide To Painting Trees, and The Watercolorist's Guide To Painting Skies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #78552 in Books
• Published on: 1990-05-01
• Released on: 1990-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

About the Author
Ferdinand Petrie has been the recipient of awards from art associations throughout the United States. His paintings appear in numerous museums, galleries, and private collections. He is the author of Drawing Landscapes in Pencil.

John Shaw is one of the world's leading nature photographers. His work has appeared in such magazines as Audubon and National Wildlife, and in numerous books.

Customer Reviews

The Best Landscape Watercolor Book I've Seen
As a beginning landscape watercolorist I've been reading a lot of books about technique. Some don't cover enough topics, some authors try to promote their own line of art supplies, and some authors use the same one or two techniques no matter what scene they are painting. Not so with this book: this one is excellent. The author presents many difficult topics (e.g. cresting waves, snowy forest) and presents solutions to breaking down complex topics into paintable scenes. If you are trying to paint landscapes and are looking for guidance, check this book out--it really is helpful and inspiring.

Fantastic, easily crate a vast arry of beautiful scenes
This is a fantastic book that shows you how to create a vast array of beautiful nature scenes and landscapes seamlessly. It is a must have for anyone wanting to paint nature in all its glory.

The book starts out with a discussion of tools and materials. It then explains color and its characteristics. A list of all the colors used in the book is provided here. The basic watercolor techniques are covering including laying washes, working wet-in-wet, using a dry brush, masking, creating highlights with an eraser, stippling and more.

The book is packed with over 130 lessons that teach you to paint trees, leaves, skies and water. Some projects include painting a delicate tree in a cloud-filled landscape, simplifying a close-up lacy crystal pattern, sorting out a maze or snow-covered branches, paining rapidly flowing water, capturing dripping rain and rendering water reflections.

Each lesson deals with a particular subject taken directly from a photograph and a specific problem such as capturing a stormy dawn with mostly dark color but making a thin reddish band look unforced. It then offers a basic solution and provides a step-by-step demonstration of how to go about painting the scene.

The wide variety of subjects and the consistent and detailed format of teaching in this book have really helped me improve my painting. The author has a great knack for breaking complex subjects into simple steps and focusing on what is important in making the painting a success.

Best Watercolor Landscape technique book.
I have been painting watercolor landscapes for the last year. I have looked for books on this subject and have bought quite a few of them. This book is by far THE BEST one I own. I try to paint an example or paint my own perspective of the painting being developed by the artist. This book is good in that it lets you innovate, teaches you about the colors, hues and techniques that could be used to bring different effects. There are some 135 practice examples with step by step guidance and photographs of the paintings in various stages of completion. A very good investment.