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Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes: Seascapes

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Build your skills with quick & easy painting projects by Matthew Palmer (Author)

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Book Description

Short on time but bursting with creativity? Learn to paint dynamic watercolour seascapes with these 33 quick-and-easy, skill-building projects.

Best-selling author Matthew Palmer has included all his tried-and-tested tips and techniques, along with step-by-step instructions and full-size tracings for all 33 stunning projects.

This beginner’s course in watercolour contains a series of 33 ocean-themed painting projects, each designed to take 30 minutes or fewer, and structured to build up your skills gradually. Start simple with still water and rippling tides, then move on to creating crashing waves, coastal buildings, boats and sun-bleached sand.

Designed for busy hobby artists who want to snatch moments to paint here or there, each of these compact projects is explained in 10 steps or fewer and is accompanied by a full-size outline on tracing paper.
Covers watercolour basics, building up from core watercolour techniques including preparing paper and paint and blending.
Each of the 33 quick and easy exercises takes no more than 30 minutes and will teach you how to create a new and inspiring subject including wild waves, lightning on the ocean, yachts, palm trees and rocky shores.
The exercises are all worked at postcard size ideal for a 6 x 4in (A6) watercolour pad.
At the end of the book discover 3 larger scale finished paintings that demonstrate how to integrate the techniques you’ve learned into vibrant and inspiring seascapes; these complete paintings also have an accompanying actual-size tracing.

Tracings
Introduction 6
Basic painting equipment 8
Painting basics 10

Through the day 12
Calm Morning 14
Cloudy Sky 16
Moonlit Reflections 18
Sunset Seascape 20
Early Morning on the Beach 22

Stormy waters 24
Breaking Waves 26
Wild Waves 28
Waves on Rocks 30
Lightning Strike 32
Stormy Waves 34
Adapting the tracings 36

Coastal buildings 38
Clifftop Castle 40
Monochrome 42
Lighthouse 44
Harbour Bridge 46
Venice 48
Cottage by the Sea 50

Boats 52
Fishing Boat 54
White Yacht 56
Galleon 58
Rowing Boat 60
Sailing Boat 62
Boat on the Beach 64

Rocks and cliffs 66
Rocky Island 68
The Needles 70
Rocky Shoreline 72
White Cliffs 74
Clifftop View 76

Sandy beaches 78
Birds at Sunset 80
Palm Trees 82
Flying Kites 84
Rustic Deckchair and Parasol 86
Beach Huts 88

Guiding Light 90
On Stormy Waters 92
By the Sea 94

Index 96

About the Author

About Matthew Palmer

Matthew Palmer is a renowned watercolour-painting teacher and best-selling author, with over 145,000 books sold worldwide. He has been painting for over 30 years, and specializes in landscapes, still life and animals.

From his studio in Derbyshire, UK, he has taught thousands of beginner artists to paint online with watercolours, and has gained a devoted following, with over 175,000 subscribers on YouTube alone. When he's not giving online demos, hosting in-person workshops, exhibiting at art shows or appearing regularly on television, Matthew also runs his own online shop where he sells Matthew Palmer brush collections, paints and more.

He has over 150k subscribers to his YouTube channel (@mattyartist); 10K followers on Facebook (@MatthewPalmerArtist); his own paint and brush collections; and an online watercolour school - Watercolour.tv