What To Paint Series
Geoff Kersey
Search Press
16 April 2012 (US 1 August 2012) / ISBN 978-1844487615
How-To Books/Painting
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by Rachel A Hyde
Want to paint a picture but not sure of a subject? Or maybe you
have recently graduated from the Ready To Paint series and are up
for a more challenging project? Either way here is another entry
in the What To Paint series that solves the problem.
There are twenty-four pictures in here to paint, all depicting trees
in various landscapes. Turn to the back and there are the outlines
to transfer to watercolor paper with a handy chart at the front
showing small thumbnail images so you can decide what type of scene
to tackle. Each project is described on two pages, one with a full
page colored photograph of the finished work and the other with
a list of the paints you need with the colors shown plus instructions.
These are not the in-depth captioned photographic stages found in
the Ready To Paint series or some other Search Press art books but
a brief description of what the artist did to achieve various effects.
This is a helpful "halfway house" between the beginners
books and going it alone, and at the beginning of the book there
are more useful mini tutorials. These include wet into wet, masking
fluid, dry brushing and color mixing for this type of subject. There
are also instructions on how to transfer the outlines. The paintings
themselves are glorious, the sort of scenes you wish you could step
right into. Apart from one in Manhattan park the others in are England,
mostly in the Derbyshire area, a few in the New Forest and other
locations. There are snowy landscapes that would suit a Christmas
card, colorful autumn woods, verdant forests in summer and bright
springtime scenes. My favorite has to be the beautiful bluebell
wood, and these are the sort of restful but cheerful pictures that
suit most walls.
Reviews of other titles by Geoff Kersey
Watercolour
Landscapes (Take
Three Colours)
Mediterranean
Landscapes in Watercolour (Take Three Colours)
Watercolour
Seascapes (Take Three Colours)
Bluebell
Wood in Watercolour (Paint it)
New
York in Watercolor (Ready to Paint)
Trace
and Paint Watercolour (Ready to Paint)
Trees,
Woodlands and Forests in Watercolor (What to Paint)
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