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  • Publisher: Search Press
  • Edition: BC Paperback with flaps
  • Publication: 13 December 2022
  • ISBN 13/EAN: 9781800920415
  • Stock: Temporarily Out of Stock
  • Size: 216x280 mm
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: £14.99
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Watercolour Nature Unleashed

£14.99

by Jane Betteridge

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Book Description
Experiment with new watercolour techniques and take your watercolour paintings to the next level with the help of a best-selling author and artist.
 
Following her highly successful Watercolours Unleashed, Watercolour Nature Unleashed is packed with fresh ideas and innovative ways for working with watercolour.
 
  • Explore new mediums like crackle paste, metallic leaf, and gilding flakes.
  • Play with print, modeling paste, stamping, and stencils.
  • Transform watercolour paintings with texture, colour and dynamism.
 
This watercolour instruction book will inspire watercolour artists of all abilities to experiment and take a more dynamic approach to their painting practice!

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

About Jane Betteridge

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 and streams live workshops for the SAA. Jane also holds regular workshops in her studios in St Ives in Cornwall and Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, where she lives.

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