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Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes: Mountain Scenes in Watercolour Build your skills with quick & easy painting projects LESLEY LINLEY Publication 1st April 2020 Price £12.99 ISBN 9781782216865 Format Paperback including 32 pages bound in tracings 280 x 216 mm Extent 128 pages Illustrations 350 Colour illustrations; 30 Line drawings, black & white Publisher Search Press Classification Watercolour Series Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes BIC CODE/S AFCC SALES REGIONS WORLD Key Selling Points Ideal if you want to learn to paint but are short on time 32 small, quick and easy exercises All paintings are accompanied by actual-size tracings to get you started. Description This complete beginner’s guide to painting mountain scenes in watercolour is ideal if you want to learn to paint but are short on time. Each of the 32 quick and easy exercises takes no more than 30 minutes and will teach you how to use a new technique or paint a different aspect of a mountain landscape, including skies, moorland, distant trees, rock, stone, and rushing water. The exercises are all worked at postcard size – ideal for a 6 x 4in (A6) watercolour pad – and actual-size outlines are included on tracing paper to get you started. The book is broken down into eight chapters covering all you need to know to create stunning mountain scenes in watercolour, and finishes with three full-size paintings for you to try out your new-found skills; these complete paintings also have an accompanying actual- size tracing. About the Author Lesley Linley has a background in Graphic Design but she learned about watercolour techniques entirely from books. Having discovered a love for the medium, she found she enjoyed sharing her skills and a career in teaching Adult Community Education began. Teaching left little time for her own painting until she moved to Skye. Here she opened a studio in order both to run classes and workshops for local people and visitors from the UK and overseas, and to spend more time painting for pleasure. She is now back in her home county of Derbyshire and continues to run workshops and classes. She has featured in Skye Makers magazine and Paint & Draw magazine. Lesley is a member of the SAA and Made in Derbyshire. ADVANCE INFORMATION

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Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes: Mountain Scenes in WatercolourBuild your skills with quick & easy painting projectsLESLEY LINLEY

Publication 1st April 2020Price £12.99ISBN 9781782216865Format Paperback including 32 pages bound in tracings

280 x 216 mmExtent 128 pagesIllustrations 350 Colour illustrations; 30 Line drawings,

black & whitePublisher Search PressClassification WatercolourSeries Ready to Paint in 30 MinutesBIC CODE/S AFCCSALES REGIONS WORLD

Key Selling PointsIdeal if you want to learn to paint but are short on time32 small, quick and easy exercisesAll paintings are accompanied by actual-size tracings to get you started.

DescriptionThis complete beginner’s guide to painting mountain scenes in watercolour is ideal if you want to learn to paint but are short on time. Each of the 32 quick and easy exercises takes no more than 30 minutes and will teach you how to use a new technique or paint a different aspect of a mountain landscape, including skies, moorland, distant trees, rock, stone, and rushing water. The exercises are all worked at postcard size – ideal for a 6 x 4in (A6) watercolour pad – and actual-size outlines are included on tracing paper to get you started.

The book is broken down into eight chapters covering all you need to know to create stunning mountain scenes in watercolour, and finishes with three full-size paintings for you to try out your new-found skills; these complete paintings also have an accompanying actual-size tracing.

About the AuthorLesley Linley has a background in Graphic Design but she learned about watercolour techniques entirely from books. Having discovered a love for the medium, she found she enjoyed sharing her skills and a career in teaching Adult Community Education began. Teaching left little time for her own painting until she moved to Skye. Here she opened a studio in order both to run classes and workshops for local people and visitors from the UK and overseas, and to spend more time painting for pleasure. She is now back in her home county of Derbyshire and continues to run workshops and classes. She has featured in Skye Makers magazine and Paint & Draw magazine. Lesley is a member of the SAA and Made in Derbyshire.

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Table of ContentsTracingsIntroduction 6Basic painting equipment 8Know your materials 10Skies 18Moorland, foliage & trees 28Atmosphere & perspective 38Rock and stone 50Water 60Snow 70Weather, light & mood 80Snow Scene 90Mountain and Loch 92Waterfall 94Index 96

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