The Watercolorist´s Essential Notebook: Landscapes

A Treasury of Landscape Painting Tricks and Techniques Discovered Through Years of Painting and Experimentation. Painting with watercolours gives you endless opportunities to create the world of your choosing. You decide whether to let the sun blaze or the rain pour, to place a tree here or let a stream wind through a field, to create a subdued hillside with quiet greens or make a forest glow with dazzling golds and reds. It´s not only a matter of what to paint, but how you go about painting it.Gordon MacKenzie explores in this book the three most important elements of landscape painting: water, sky and land. He encourages you to try numerous ways of painting each of these, and then choose the methods that best express how the outdoors speaks to you.This reliable collection of tips, techniques, ideas and lessons is your perfect companion on the path to creative fulfilment and more accomplished watercolour landscapes.