Draw and Sketch Landscapes: Sketch with Confidence in Six Easy Steps

Description

Draw and Sketch is a brand new series of subject-specific handbooks aimed at the beginner or improving artist who wants clear, easy-to-follow, visual information to understand, copy, and learn from. Sixteen attention-grabbing exercises are organized in gradual progression from the simplest sketches to more complex drawings. The exercises are planned in six easy steps, each highlighting a particular aspect of learning to draw. All stages of the drawing are shown, including the most basic, so that every exercise can be started from a blank sheet of paper. All drawing media - pencil, charcoal, chalk, pastel, pen and ink, technical pen, and watercolour as a drawing medium - are included. The use of each medium is clearly demonstrated, and a media techniques directory is included for easy reference at the back of each volume.

Joe Francis Dowden turned professional in 1982 and has since written many successful books and has been published by David & Charles, Sterling and now Search Press. He has sold out at numerous 'one man' shows and has exhibited his work throughout Britain. He lives in Worthing, East Sussex. Janet Whittle exhibits regularly at the Westminster Galleries in London. She has received awards from the major UK art groups, including the Society of British Artists' Founder President's Honour in 1999, and the St. Cuthberts Mill Award for a picture of outstanding quality in 2001. Also in that year she won The Society of Flower Painters' Award for Excellence for her Jersey Exhibition. Jim Woods had a successful career in creative design and advertising for Sainsburys before he turned to painting full-time on retirement. When living in London he exhibited annually in the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour show. He holds regular exhibitions of his work locally in the west of England where he lives and his paintings can be seen in private collections all over the world.