Search Press’ groundbreaking Ready To Paint series showed
a beginner how to paint pictures with the help of tracings
and plenty of staged photographs. But each painting takes
some time to complete, and many people are busy (or have rather
full walls). This new series contains postcard (6” x
4”) sized projects that won’t take more than half
an hour each and would make excellent greetings cards (or
postcards).
When is a book like a donut? When it has a hole in the cover!
Look through the hole and you can see the first tracing all
ready to transfer to your paper. These smaller pictures are
just the thing for a beginner and offer some beautiful, professional-looking
results. You can first find out what you need to buy and discover
how to handle watercolors. All this is kept simple and to
the point; you will learn more as you work through the projects.
Each one is accompanied by at least two pages of instructions
with photographs including what techniques you learn and a
bit about them. Projects take you through the four seasons,
there are country scenes, woodlands, trees in various settings
including urban and various types of trees. All are paintings
of the UK and many are set in and around the author’s
Derbyshire home. Included too are some of his finished paintings
and an extra three larger paintings to tackle at the end with
more pages of instructions. I was impressed how much you could
get done in half and hour and have a lovely picture at the
end. It is a great way of learning to paint and I look forward
to seeing further titles in this series. Search Press does
it again!
If you
cannot find a good range of watercolor painting materials
locally try http://www.searchpress.com for a list of suppliers.
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)
Trees
and Woodlands In Watercolour (Ready to Paint)
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