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Ready To Paint Series
Tony Cowlishaw
Search Press
4 June 2011 (1 October 2011 in USA)/ ISBN 1844486567
How-To Books/Painting
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Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
If you are
going on vacation this summer and are a beginner artist here is
a book that you might want to pack in your luggage. As ever, this
book contains six tracings along with everything you need to record
those elusive seascapes to remind you of your seaside sojourn.
This really is a book that tackles the subject as a separate entity
with its own delights and difficulties. The wide expanse on view,
the changing light, tides and the qualities of watercolors are all
mentioned and make this type of painting unique. After all, when
faced with a town or country scene it won’t be changing physically
before your eyes unlike a beach with the tides! The five projects
cover different times of the day, getting effects such as light
on water and exploring topics like composition and golden section
(you need to know what this means, this is how to use your knowledge).
Subjects for paintings include a dramatic coastal castle, marshlands,
fishing boats, cliffs and a barge scene showing different aspects
of the British coastline scenery. I particularly liked the artist’s
treatment of this subject as something totally different from landscape
painting and if you want to paint this type of picture this is a
good book to start with. It certainly offers plenty of advice and
hands-on experience.
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