Publisher's Synopsis
Top TV artists Alwyn and June Crawshaw guide you through a complete course of more than 40 step-by-step demonstrations of landscape paintings done on location.
All landscape painters like to paint directly from nature and here Alwyn and June Crawshaw show the reader how to deal with all the problems of painting outdoors, even the weather!
The book is divided into different sections, each dealing with a popular aspect of landscape painting:
- Coping with changing light
- Working with greens
- Painting trees and water
- Creating atmosphere
- Working in a hot climate
- Painting complicated scenes
Alwyn and June's paintings - in both watercolour and oils - feature landscapes from around the world: Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain and the Bahamas. Alwyn and June paint in quite different styles and the comparisons are both interesting and instructive, making this an invaluable, practical course for the landscape painter.
