Mixed Media Landscapes and Seascapes

Description

Artist and teacher Chris Forsey gives a useful and insightful book on using mixed media - ever growing in popularity - to create stunning landscapes and seascapes. It concentrates on combining water-based media - watercolour, pastels, wax crayons, ink and acrylics - which is an exciting and often unpredictable way to paint. It allows the artist to create textures and effects that can exhilarate the painting surface with unusual serendipitous washes, smears and drifts of colour and tone. The reader is encouraged to experiment with media, and advice, instruction and step-by-step demonstrations are given to show how to get the best from 2, 3 or 4 different media working together. The introduction helps the reader determine what they wish to achieve in a painting, and then the book is divided into chapters concentrating on one of the media combinations: wax crayon and watercolour; oil pastel, watercolour and acrylic; oil pastel and acrylics; oil pastel, watercolour, ink and acrylics. It has plenty of step-by-step demonstrations on how to combine the materials, with finished examples of finished paintings. The book offers the reader an array of ways to improve your landscape and seascape painting, taking it to a new level.

Chris Forsey, RI SGFA, is a professional artist, figurative painter working in acrylics, watercolour and mixed-media, mostly concerned with landscape, townscape and coastal subjects. His main focus is in capturing atmosphere and fleeting moments of changing light and particularly works with water-based media. Chris runs regular workshops on mixed media painting, and was elected a member of The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours in 2010 and also The Society of Graphic Fine Artists.

'A thorough and enthralling guide' * The Artist *