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Capture the Rich Textures of Nature, Step by Step
Capture nature’s beauty as you never have before. Beloved artist and teacher Claudia Nice leads you on an inspired journey through the great outdoors. With paints in hand, she shares with you her best techniques for creating landscapes that come alive with richness, depth and textured detail.
Open this guide and start painting right away. As you follow engaging, step-by-step demonstrations and exercises, you’ll learn to recreate the textural elements of a range of terrains and landscapes. Chapters include:
• Creative clouds and skies
• Majestic mountains, hills and mesas
• Texturing trees, trunks and foliage
• Rugged rocks and gritty gravel
• Transparent textures for rivers, falls and lakes
• Flowers of the field
In a special section, Claudia covers basic texturing techniques with mini demos using lines, dots, bruising, scribbling, spattering, blotting, printing, stamping and more. From paints and pens to sponges, leaves and facial tissue, you’ll explore all kinds of fun and inventive ways to create amazing textures.
And to help you put it all together, Claudia includes her masterful advice for creating compositions using reference photos, field sketches and your own creative license. Each demonstration features a large image of the completed landscape, so you can see exactly how Claudia’s methods work – from start to finish.
Publisher : North Light Books; 46388th edition (March 16, 2012)
Language : English
Paperback : 144 pages
ISBN-10 : 1440318565
ISBN-13 : 978-1440318566
Item Weight : 1.26 pounds
Dimensions : 10.89 x 0.38 x 8.28 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book has descriptive illustrations and helpful information. They appreciate the detailed instructions and clear explanations for watercolor techniques. The book provides new ways of creating texture that they never thought of before. Readers praise the author as an accomplished artist who masters the theme. However, some customers feel the images are not large enough to learn from and have poor image resolution.
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