Painting Coastal Scenes (Watercolour Tips and Techniques)

by Ray Campbell Smith

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Using easy-to-follow step-by-step demonstrations and many different paintings, Ray Campbell Smith shows how to create stunning paintings full of atmosphere and feeling. The margin between land and sea has fascinated and inspired artists over the years and it still retains its unique magic. Ray captures all the spectacular beauty and mystery of the coastal fringe: rugged shapes carved out by the sea, sheer cliffs, low-lying stretches of sand, ranges of hills running out to meet water, tidal reaches where rivers widen to meet the ocean and more. Water can bring light and life to the dreariest landscape and in this book he shows how to achieve this. He provides practical advice on all the techniques required, along with helpful tips on the development of an idea, ariel perspective, composition and colour. Beginners and more experienced artists will find this book instructional and stimulating, with many different features and original paintings. It will encourage and inspire them to develop their own ideas and to capture the ever-changing moods of the sea and sky.

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Average Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars

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4 out of 5 stars

Painting Coastal Scenes (watercolors), 2008-06-23
The book arrived in great shape and quickly. The paintings in it are great, but not very colorful. I felt the book had a lot to offer, though, so it was worth the price.

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5 out of 5 stars

Painting Coastal Scenes, 2007-07-01
Well known artist Ray Campbell Smith shows how to paint with watercolors a subject that can be a challange to paint yet in a easy to understand way. Painting Coastal scenes is a great book that will help the painter understand a much easier way to record the coastal life. Ray Campbell Smith is a another great artist much like Ron Ranson. The paintings in the book hold fantastic loose brush work in a low key style.

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3 out of 5 stars

Dull subjects, ok tutorials, 2007-02-28
While I liked the tutorials in "Painting Coastal Scenes", I found the subject matter and color palettes dull indeed. However, this is English (clench your teeth when you say "English") watercolour and this means that natural light, and monotone scenes that reproduce a foggy landscape or waterscape are to be admired and emulated.

There were a few interesting tutorials on painting boats and shine on water, but very few that dealt with how to represent marshy plantlife on gleaming water. This book seems to be more suited to the OTHER side of the pond. If you live on an estuary (as I do) you will need to check some other sources of painterly expression...unless you happen to like Mr. Smith's style of watercolor. I found it dull and boring, though truthful to its subject. I was looking for a different way to represent this subject and this book simply did not inspire me at all.

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