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Developing Your Watercolours

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This is a well written follow-up to the Landscape Course book. Bringing up all kinds of tidbits you haven't thought of. Interspersed with demos to help you on the way.
There is a section on Sketching ("Before sketching, consider how you observe things. By this I do not mean simply looking at objects and recognizing them as a gate or a horse, but seriously looking at features in a considered way, in order to ascertain how that feature sits in the landscape...") There are lots of little sketches to demonstrate a point and painted sketches as well as finished paintings. Lots of well explained 'how-to-do-this' and personal anecdotes. Every chapter has exercises to do that will get the brain thinking and paintings to improve.
I really like this book! I have learned a lot and enjoyed every minute.

This book, and the video that came out about the same time, are among the best watercolour publications that I have seen. I am an ardent fan of David Bellamy and heartily recommend this and any other of his books to all watercolour painters, whether expert or, like me, novice. They are full of information and ideas that can help make us all better painters. I have almost all his books and videos and never tire of looking at them and learning.