About the Book

Even beginners can paint landscapes quickly with the help of Hazel Soan's basic exercises and step-by-step demonstrations. Soan covers everything: creating space, depth, and distance; the "game of tones"; perspective; composition and focus; and figures. Learn techniques for capturing various sources of light, shadows, and seasons, mixing watercolors; painting en plein air; brushwork; laying a wash; and developing texture. Specific themes include skies, forests, fields, gardens, mountains, seascapes, wilderness, desert, and urban vistas.

Book Synopsis

A guide to landscape painting for complete beginners with simple exercises.

Hazel Soan is a hugely successful painter and an outstanding teacher and author of art books, which have introduced the wonders of art to a generation of amateur artists. In this book she teaches you how to get to grips with watercolour landscapes in the space of an afternoon.

The book explores the basics of watercolour landscapes with lots of simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations that are perfect for beginners. That life-long ambition of painting somewhere that is important to you can become a possibility with the help of this nifty little book.

Topics covered include creating space, composition and focus, light and shadows, colours of the landscape and the mixing of watercolours. Watercolour painting techniques such as painting en plein air, brushwork, creating texture, wet into wet and wet on dry are explained. The book also explores specific landscape themes such as skies, foliage, forests, gardens, seascapes, wilderness, sunsets, urban landscapes, panoramas, sunsets and many more.

Review Quotes

'Hazel, with her years of teaching experience, is the ideal person to teach good habits from the outset' - Leisure Painter

'Perfect for recreating your favourite places' - Crafts Beautiful

'Quite simply one of the best guides to landscape painting you'll find' - Art Book Review

'Refreshingly cuts through the mystique and, frankly, waffle you may find elsewhere. ... It's little short of magic' - The Artist - Henry Malt,

About the Author

Hazel Soan is a popular and successful artist who divides her time between London and Cape Town, exhibiting her work widely. She has her own gallery in Fulham, London. She is author of several bestselling books and a range of successful DVDs. She was one of the art experts in the popular Channel 4 TV series Watercolour Challenge. The very successful Learn Watercolour Quickly, Essence of Watercolour and Watercolour Rainbow are also by Hazel Soan.