The Artist's Guide to Painting Water in Watercolor: 30+ Techniques

Description

How to Paint Water! The secret to convincingly painting water is understanding why water appears as it does--it's all about the reflections! In this comprehensive book showcasing water in all its natural states, you'll learn how wind affects water as it goes from a dead calm to gale force winds. As you learn to use the reflections in the water to identify the perspective of the objects, you'll be able to move away from reference images and paint the water scenes you see in your imagination. With the expert instruction of renowned watercolour artist Ron Hazell, you'll find success as you paint water in every imaginable condition. From glittering lakes to calm harbor shores to foamy surf and turbulent waterfalls and rainy city streets to snow covered lawns and frozen ponds, you'll find the inspiration and techniques to guide you on a water-filled watercolour journey. 11 step-by-step demonstrations for painting puddles, streams, rivers, raging oceans, snow and more. 8 bonus demonstration videos to help you achieve realistic water paintings. More than 30 techniques for creating accurate shadow and light, reflections of objects and wave types. | A comprehensive treatment of painting water in all its various conditions, from calm water, rippled water, rough water, open ocean, surf, as well as rain, puddles, fog, ice and snow. The medium is transparent watercolour. The book will be a logical progression of how the wind affects water as it goes from dead calm to a raging hurricane. The book will be laid out starting from water with no wind, the simplest condition to paint, and then progresses through the different stages up to water under gale force winds. The book will also discuss painting waterfalls, rivers, and puddles. Step-by-Step demonstrations of each water state are included. Provides an abundance of useful information for painting inspiring, light-filled watercolour waterscapes and scenes SELLING POINTS Techniques and demonstrations for painting water in 14 different natural states including lakes, oceans, glittering, surf, rivers, waterfalls, fog, ice, rain, puddles and snow. Comprehensive front matter introducing/reviewing materials and first chapter introducing and explaining the challenges inherent to painting water. Helpful hints for painting onsite. Author will contribute one 3 5 minute video clip for each chapter to be used as exclusive online bonus material. | 11 step-by-step demonstrations for painting puddles, streams, rivers, raging oceans, snow and more. 8 bonus demonstration videos to help you achieve realistic water paintings. More than 30 techniques for creating accurate shadow and light, reflections of objects and wave types.

Ron Hazell is an accomplished artist in the mediums of oil and watercolor an dis known for his light-filled marine paintings featuring coastal communities. His work has been featured in American Artist WATERCOLOR Magazine and was juried into Best of Worldwide Landscape Artists (Kennedy Publishing, 2011).