This hands-on guide to landscape watercolor and other drawing and painting techniques takes
readers on a series of excursions from the sea to the city mastering the use of line and color
along the way. A useful manual for drawing on the spot it offers valuable insight into how to
carefully observe the landscape before us and choose what about it we want to express how to
select and prioritize visual information and how to apply drawing techniques to create the
illusion that our compositions have been arranged effortlessly as if by nature itself. In each
of the book's five sections (Color and Materials Horizontality and Depth Graphics Shadows
and Light Lines and Perspective and Urban Lines and Colors) the author suggests some of the
questions we should ask ourselves when observing a landscape. We will learn how to tell a story
while painting prioritizing color ratios and graphic elements over faithful representation in
the final result. Through these engaging exercises readers will soon be able to manage
compositional line and color effectively as they experiment with different drawing painting
and landscape representation tools and techniques.
