Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes: Seascapes: Build Your Skills with Quick & Easy Painting Projects

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Matthew Palmer

Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes

Seascapes: Build Your Skills with Quick & Easy Painting Projects

Matthew Palmer

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Search Press Ltd
13 January 2026

Watercolours; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Painting & art manuals

Series: Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes

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.

By: Matthew Palmer
Imprint: Search Press Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 216mm,
ISBN: 9781800921047
ISBN 10: 1800921047
Series: Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 13 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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 Crashing Waves 26 Wild Waves 28 Waves on Rocks 30 Lightning Strike 32 Coastal Buildings 34 Clifftop Castle 36 Monochrome 38 Lighthouse 40 Harbour Bridge 42 Venice 44 Cottage by the Sea 46 Adapting the tracings 48 Boats 50 White Yacht 52 Fishing Boat 54 Galleon 56 Rowing Boat 58 Distant Boats on the Horizon 60 Boat on the Beach 62 rocks and cliffs 64 Cliffs and Crashing Waves 66 Rocky Foreshore 68 Lighthouse at Night 70 White Cliffs 72 Mediterranean Coast 74 Sandy Beaches 76 Tropical Beach 78 Palm Trees 80 Children Flying Kites 82 Tiki Bar 84 Coral Reef 86 Beach Huts 88 Island Paradise 90 Galleon in Stormy Water 92 Sunshine on the Beach Huts 94 Index 96

Matthew Palmer's teaching career began in 1997 with local classes, before quickly expanding to national workshops and painting holidays. He now teaches hundreds of artists each week from his studio in Derbyshire, UK. The author of more than 10 books, selling more than 150,000 copies worldwide, he is also a regular on television, with his own video-on-demand show at his website: www.watercolour.tv YouTube: @mattyartist Facebook: MatthewPalmerArtist