Watercolour Nature Unleashed by Jane Betteridge

• Introduction

• Pure watercolour

• PREPARING THE SURFACE 22

  • Surfaces 24

  • Textured grounds 32

  • Crackle paste 36

  • Modelling pastes 42

  • Tissue paper 48

  • Metallic leaf 54

• Step-by-step: Poppyfield 55

  • Gilding flakes 62

  • Gesso 66

  • Stamping 68

• Step-by-step: Beach Scene 70

• ADDING TO YOUR PAINTING 76

  • Inks 78

  • Granulation 86

• Step-by-step: Magical Woodland 92

  • Food wrap 98

  • Salt 102

  • Gouache 106

  • Contour relief 110

  • Pearlescence 114

  • Impasto 116

  • Bronzing powder 118

  • Stencils 122

  • Gauze & thread 124

• Step-by-step: Wild Flowers in the Wood 128

• IDEAS & INSPIRATION

  • Exploring themes 136

  • Focus 138

  • Pattern & colour 140

  • Your starting point 142

  • Index 144

Jane Betteridge is an artist and qualified adult education tutor whose interest in painting stems from childhood, and whose inspiration is drawn from the landscape; from countryside to seaside. Known for her experimental, innovative approach to watercolours, Jane’s venturesome, investigative ways aim to nudge the use of the medium a little further, and allows her readers and students to take advantage of the medium to produce free, lively works of art.

Jane has demonstrated at the prestigious Mall Galleries in London and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; and was Artist in Residence at the BBC's Gardener's World Live event. She has written for several art magazines. Jane also holds regular workshops in her studios in St Ives in Cornwall and Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, where she lives.