Landscape Painting with Watercolours and Other Techniques: Exploring the Use of Lines and Colours: Exploring the Use of Lines and Colours

Through engaging exercises, readers will learn how to tell a story while painting and drawing a landscape, a cityscape or seascape with watercolour and other techniques.This hands-on guide to landscapewatercolor and other drawing and painting techniques takes readers on a seriesof excursions from the sea to the city, mastering the use of line and coloralong the way. A useful manual for drawing on the spot, it offers valuableinsight into how to carefully observe the landscape before us and choose whatabout it we want to express; how to select and prioritize visual information;and how to apply drawing techniques to create the illusion that ourcompositions have been arranged effortlessly, as if by nature itself. In eachof the book’s five sections (Color and Materials; Horizontality and Depth;Graphics, Shadows and Light; Lines and Perspective; and Urban Lines andColors), the author suggests some of the questions we should ask ourselves whenobserving a landscape. We will learn how to tell a story while painting,prioritizing color ratios and graphic elements over faithful representation inthe final result. Through these engaging exercises, readers will soon be able tomanage compositional line and color effectively as they experiment withdifferent drawing, painting and landscape representation tools and techniques.