Alwyn Crawshaw Boeken

This reference guide to sketching covers: advice on sketching materials and equipment; using pencil, charcoal, pen and ink and watercolour; guidance on perspective; help with design and composition; and sketching in colour.

In this comprehensive course instruction, well-known painter and teacher, Alwyn Crawshaw, helps you master the popular art of painting in watercolour. Everything the beginner needs to know is contained in one handy volume of 32 lessons, offering a step-by-step guide to success.

This best-selling book by popular TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw is now available in a new paperback edition due to popular demand. In this work, Alwyn teaches the essential techniques and skills needed to create successful landscapes in just 30 minutes. He guides readers through various landscape paintings using different mediums—watercolour, oils, and pencil—demonstrating how to effectively observe and paint from nature under time constraints. Alwyn emphasizes that setting a time limit encourages artists to focus on the overall composition rather than getting bogged down in details. These half-hour painting exercises are beneficial for artists at all levels, promoting spontaneity and a broader approach to painting. Alwyn Crawshaw, the author of numerous books on painting and creator of seven popular TV series for Channel 4, also serves as the Founder and President of the Society of Amateur Artists. This reissued edition offers a competitive price for those seeking to enhance their painting skills.

This best-selling title will be relaunched in September 05 with a fresh new cover design. Alwyn Crawshaw has a very loyal following among amateur painters, and this book is an ideal introduction to this popular medium. Each title in the best-selling Learn to Paint series is written by a professional working artist and offers the leisure painter a personal course of art instruction. Here well-known and loved TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw clearly describes all the basic techniques of painting in watercolour, and provides many practical exercises and step-by-step demonstration paintings.The book includes:• advice on materials and equipment• basic techniques and methods• help with brush effects• how to mix colours• help with compositionThis is the only guide you’ll need to learn how to paint watercolours with skill and confidence.

Crawshaw sets out to remove some of the mystique of painting and to inspire even the most hesitant of beginners.

Three professional artists explain all the basic watercolor techniques in this step-by-step guide containing all the information new artists need to get started painting.

A course of 29 lessons to help the beginner master the art of oil painting. Starting with simple exercises on brush control and how to mix colours, the book goes through all the basic methods and techniques of oil painting, explaining each process and offering advice and encouragement at every stage. Readers are shown how to paint specific subjects, how to tackle problems when painting outdoors and how to paint from photographs. One section of the book is a feature on "what went wrong". These consist of different painting exercises which illustrate all the common pitfalls and how to avoid them. The final section of the book contains a series of step-by-step painting demonstrations with full instructions and a gallery of finished paintings.