Watercolour Nature Unleashed

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Experiment with new watercolor techniques—and take your watercolor paintings to the next level—with the help of a bestselling author and artist.

Following her highly successful Watercolours Unleashed, Watercolour Nature Unleashed is packed with fresh ideas and innovative ways for working with watercolor.

Explore new mediums like crackle paste, metallic leaf, and gilding flakes.Play with print, modeling paste, stamping, and stencils.Transform watercolor paintings with texture, color and dynamism.
This watercolor instruction book will inspire watercolor artists of all abilities to experiment and take a more dynamic approach to their painting practice!

From the Publisher

Be inspired by nature and explore innovative and dynamic ways to bring vibrancy and texture to your creative watercolour works of art.

In this reissue of her best-selling book Dynamic Watercolours, Jane demonstrates an effective and vibrant use of a huge range of exciting ways of working, including the use of crackle paste, modelling pastes, metallic leaf, gilding flakes, print and much more.

Inspired by nature on every page and showcasing 75 inspirational finished paintings, this book will excite and inspire watercolour artists of all abilities to experiment and approach their painting in a whole new way.

Includes over 35 techniques clearly explained and illustrated, and four step-by-step projects showing you how to incorporate the techniques into your paintings

Using a tissue paper base

Once a tissue paper surface has been prepared and left to dry, watercolour can be applied in the same way as if using a normal piece of paper. The wet paint will naturally run into the crevices and recesses and produce some stunning effects.

Adding gilding flakes to specific areas

Like metal leaf, gilding flakes need to be secured to the surface using gilding paste. After applying the metal leaf adhesive to an area of a piece of work, I sprinkle them out of the packet and let them fall on the paper in a haphazard way, creating an interesting, looser effect than that achieved by using leaf.

Stamping

A really exciting technique, which creates a wonderful surface to work on, is stamping or printing into the surface of watercolour ground, both smooth and coarse.

Using inks

You can use ink with a brush, much like paint. Ink is fluid enough to paint with straight away; there is no need to water it down or prepare it. The pigment is a lot stronger, and it is permanent, so bear this in mind.

Poppyfield

When I saw a photograph of a lovely, golden field of corn interspersed with the bright red poppies, I knew I had to paint it. I naturally thought of gold leaf as a base, hoping the gold would shine through here and there.

Wild Flowers in the Wood

Catching a glimpse of sunlight highlighting these textured tree trunks gave me the idea of how to try and emulate the three-dimensional effect I witnessed.

Magical Woodland

The warm, cheerful, bright, sunny colours of summer inspired me to paint this uplifting woodland scene.

Beach Scene

Using a chunky canvas wooden panel and mainly coarse watercolour ground, and incorporating crackle paste towards the foreground, forms an interesting textured base upon which to paint this seascape.

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 Gardeners’ 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.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Search Press (January 10, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1800920415
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1800920415
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.56 x 0.44 x 11 inches

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