Anyone Can Paint Coastal Landscapes by Charles Evans

Anyone Can Paint Coastal Landscapes by Charles Evans includes six step-by-step projects suitable for beginners. This title also includes full-size traceable outlines for artists who aren’t confident in their drawing skills. Whether you’re an absolute beginner or an enthusiast looking to improve your skills, you’ll be amazed at how quickly you can learn the skills needed to product beautiful paintings.

Charles Evans is a professional artist who brings a wealth of knowledge and experience tot he reader. The book begins with a short yet informative section covering basic materials, plus an introduction to some basic techniques like colour mixing, getting the most from your palette and enhancing your watercolours with a little gouache.

The six projects in this book will gradually build your painting skills as they increase in difficulty. Each project will introduce you to some handy hints and tips direct from the author to help you on your painting journey.

This title was previously published as The Paint Pad Artist: Coastal Landscapes, and has been reimagined as a part of the ‘Anyone Can Paint’ series.

104 page Paperback. 216mm x 280mm

LOOK INSIDE

Introduction

How to use this book

What you need

General techniques

Setting up your easel

Working with watercolour

Colours and mixes

Integrating gouache

Laying a wash

THE PROJECTS

By the Lake

• Sucking out clouds

• Scraping out rocks with a plastic cards

• Putting in grasses

To the Lighthouse

• Shaping hills

• Painting over reflections

• Painting buildings in the landscape

Warm Climes

• Painting calm water

• Painting a tree using a rigger brush

Inlet

• Taking out light

• Stippling foliage

Snow on the Moors

Suggesting distant trees

Storm in the Cove

• Painting a stormy sky

• Painting a stormy sea

Index

Outlines

Charles Evans is one of the UK's leading painters, well-known from his long-running TV series and for his art classes, which are held all over the UK. Charles has made over 200 television programmes on art for the Tyne Tees television company and later for the Discovery Channel.

Charles has written several books for Search Press, selling almost 100,000 copies, and represents Daler-Rowney as their main demonstrator. He travels the UK and abroad, taking his no-nonsense approach to painting to hundreds of amateur artists. His exuberant personality is reflected in his own paintings, which have a lightness and simplicity to them.

Charles lives in Morpeth, Northumberland, UK. Visit his website, www.charlesevansart.com