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Painting Watercolour Trees the

Easy Way A

TERRY HARRISON D

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Publication December 2012
Price AUD $36.99
ISBN 9781844487790 A
Format Paperback 280 x 216 mm
Extent 128 pages N
Illustrations 325 Colour illustrations
Imprint Search Press
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Publisher Search Press
Classification Watercolour
BIC CODE/S WFA, AFCC E

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Description
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Following on from his successful book Watercolour Trees, Terry presents a new edition of this award-winning title, and includes a great
selection of clear, detailed step-by-step demonstrations along with extra tips to show how to paint beautiful trees quickly and easily. He
teaches how to paint an impression of trees, rather than showing how reproduce each leaf, and illustrates the importance of F
understanding shapes, perspective, light and shade, and the way foliage changes with the seasons. This is a book for all landscape artists
whatever their skill levels, and anyone who wants to learn more about painting trees whether they are magnificent in their winter habitat, O
gloriously bedecked in spring foliage, splendid in their summer raiment or stunning when their leaves turn to russet reds and spun golds.

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If you paint landscapes, sooner or later you're going to have to paint trees. Even if the worst predictions of pests and disease turn out to
be right, bare, flat landscapes are unlikely to be a feature of the landscape any time soon. Books on trees are not exactly two a penny M
but, after a period when they were thin on the ground, several have come along in recent years, although they have tended to assume
you want to paint trees as a subject rather than as a necessary adjunct to a wider view. Terry Harrison hits the nail right on the head with
this guide. This isn't a book about how to paint trees, but how to paint trees in a landscape. It's full of the sort of good ideas that are
Terry's stock-in-trade. Using his range of brushes (and if you don't want to buy them, you may find you already have suitable A
alternatives), he starts by showing you how to create realistic and believable shapes quickly and easily. If there's a wood on the horizon,
this will take the mystery out of putting it there. Get further into the book, and you'll find advice on dealing with individual species,
which becomes important if they're a foreground feature. You'll also find demonstrations showing trees in a variety of situations, T
including woodlands and landscapes, as well as mountain and river scenes. In fact, just about everything you could want.
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