PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

Painting Expressive Landscapes

Ideas and Inspiration Using Watercolour with Mixed Media

Carole Robson

$39.99

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

QTY:

English
Search Press Ltd
01 April 2019
'This is busy, colourful, packed with information and thoroughly inspiring and I love it...buy this book.' Artbookreview.net

Strongly influenced by the changing landscape, Carole Robson’s artwork is packed with colour, atmosphere, texture and light. An experienced teacher and artist, Carole explores how to build from basic techniques to producing wonderful expressive and semi-abstract landscapes. Combining watercolour with other watersoluble media and collage material, the three detailed step-by-step projects demonstrate perfectly Carole’s expertise and innovative methods. They take you from materials and tools needed through to using masking fluid, salt, spattering techniques, modelling paste, cellophane and much more.

A stimulating mix of colour and watercolour techniques for all skill levels, this guide helps the artist develop a free and flowing style to their art.

By:  
Imprint:   Search Press Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 280mm,  Width: 216mm,  Spine: 9mm
Weight:   574g
ISBN:   9781782215530
ISBN 10:   1782215530
Pages:   128
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction Let it Flow First things first Watercolour techniques Painting media Colour Surfaces and tools Expressive techniques Creating successful landscapes Inspiration and image Composition Woodland with Silver Birch Step-by-step project Wayside Verge Step-by-step project Mixed media Experiments with mixed media Beach at Sunset Step-by-step project Imagination and abstraction Digital art Afterword Index

Carole was brought up in a rural area of North Staffordshire, UK. She moved to the south of England to study for her degree and post graduate qualifications at Central St. Martin's School of Art and subsequently freelanced as a book illustrator for major London publishers. She worked on a wide variety of commissions and her illustrations are published worldwide.  Carole is a mixed media painter and art tutor, working from her studio in Laddingford, Kent. She exhibits in London and the South East of England. Her paintings are driven by strong feelings about ecology and man's impact on the environment; her desire is to elevate nature's case and celebrate meadows and wild places. While inspired by all nature she particularly enjoys weedy patches and the fragility of weathered plants, which retain a kind of nobility in their structure even in their dry, decaying state. Her observations of nature, memory and imagination form the basis of many of her landscapes.  Carole is a mixed media painter with a first love of watercolour. She is experimental, combining media, resist techniques and a variety of mark making. In the last few years Carole has brought digital art into her practice and is frequently re-inspired by the new colour combinations or abstractions achieved. 

Reviews for Painting Expressive Landscapes: Ideas and Inspiration Using Watercolour with Mixed Media

'If you're interested in exploring the outer reaches of the possibilities of watercolour, this is the book for you. If, at the same time, you want to keep things creative and are doing this for something more than just technical curiosity, please form an orderly queue. What's truly remarkable about Carole's work is that it's always the creative dog wagging the technical tail and not, as can so easily happen, the other way round.' Read the full review here. -- Henry Malt * Artbookreview.net * Experienced artist and teacher, Carole Robson combines watercolour with other water-soluble media and collage to paint her expressive, semi-abstract landscapes. In her her book Painting Expressive Landscapes, she describes in a clear and well-illustrated text how to build up your work - from basic techniques to more innovative processes to unleash your creativity. Three detailed step-by-step projects are included, featuring a woodland scene with silver birch, a beach at sunset and a wayside verge. Much of Carole's work is influenced by the changing landscape and this book, for all abilities, will help you to see what's around you with new eyes and provide you with the techniques to bring it to life. * Leisure Painter, May 2019 *


See Also