Synopses & Reviews
Renowned watercolorist David Bellamy shows how to paint essential elements of landscapes—skies, light, and atmosphere—in this painting resource, demonstrating how choices involving these three key elements can affect a painting. Starting with skies, the basic techniques are covered, including composition, clouds, special effects such as silver linings, sunsets, and shafts of light, followed by a dramatic sky demonstration. The next element is light, with plenty of advice about warm and cool light, using glazes, how to cast shadows, rendering light from different directions, and painting the sun and reflected light, followed by a step-by-step demonstration featuring strong light and shadow. The atmosphere section covers the elements of haze and mist, fog, mountains in cloud, smoke and steam, rain, storms, and tranquil moods, and is followed by an atmospheric painting of a waterfall that details each stage of the process. Sure to inspire, plenty of Davids own watercolor paintings of skies, light, and atmosphere appear throughout the book.
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"There's an excellent variety of material here, from mountains to landscapes and settings both in the UK and abroad, which makes for a good choice of approaches." —www.ArtBookReview.net
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"David turns his attention to capturing what he regards as the three main ingredients of a successful painting: skies, light and atmosphere, explaining how even the most mundane of subjects can be transformed by the right lighting and mood." —Leisure Painter (July 2012)
Synopsis
In this second book in a series covering elements of the landscape, renowned watercolourist, David Bellamy shows how to paint skies, light and atmosphere and how choices involving these three key elements can affect a painting. Starting with skies, David Bellamy covers basic techniques, composition, clouds, special effects like silver linings, sunsets and shafts of light, and much more, then there is a step by step dramatic sky demonstration. Next comes light, with plenty of advice including warm and cool light, using glazes, cast shadows, light from different directions, painting the sun and reflected light, followed by a step by step demonstration featuring strong light and shadow. The atmosphere section covers haze and mist, fog, mountains in cloud, smoke and steam, rain, storms and tranquil moods, and is followed by an atmospheric step by step painting of a waterfall. David Bellamys extensive travels and much admired painting style ensure that there are plenty of beautiful, inspiring paintings of skies, light and atmosphere throughout the book.
Synopsis
Skies, light and atmosphere are perfect subjects for watercolour, and David Bellamy's mastery of the medium shines out in this inspiring and practical book.
About the Author
David Bellamy has produced five video tutorials on watercolor painting and is the author of several books, including "David Bellamy's Complete Guide to Watercolour Painting," "David Bellamy's Mountains & Moorlands in Watercolour," "Developing Your Watercolours," "Painting Wild Landscapes," and "Watercolour Landscapes."