Product Description

Learn to paint quickly and easily with Terry Harrison's unique guide to watercolour landscape painting. Using a range of brushes, he demonstrates how simple it is to create all the different landscape elements - from skies, trees, bushes and hedgerows to footpaths, fields, water and reflections. With many hot tips and a wealth of practical advice, he presents an inspiring sequence of step-by-step demonstrations which aim to build up skills and encourage the artist to create their own original paintings. This book, with its fresh, original content and uncomplicated approach, encourages artists to try out the techniques for themselves, stimulating them to create their own original landscapes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #463863 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

About the Author
Terry Harrison became interested in art early on, attending Art School at the age of sixteen. His studies led to a career in graphics, then he became an illustrator, developing his own painting style and perfecting his techniques during evenings and weekends. Demand grew for his paintings and he soon gave up his 'day job' to paint full time. Now he is kept constantly busy with a full schedule of exhibitions, private commissions, demonstrations and painting holidays. His line art prints are sold in shops and galleries everywhere and he has recently opened a successful art gallery where he displays and sells his paintings. Terry is an energetic and prolific painter and his regular re-bookings for demonstrations reflect an enthusiastic response to his educational and entertaining style.

Customer Reviews

My kind of book
This is definitely my kind of book. The introduction and materials have been kept to a minimum and reflect, I think, the artists personal choices rather than pages of information which you have already acquired from those other books sitting on the shelf; that is until we come to the "brushes" (as in Brush with Watercolour). This chapter incorporated so many different ways of using various brushes, each with its own demonstrations, simply explained and beautifully illustrated that this book is worth buying for this chapter alone. However, it moves on to various helpful techniques,detailed step-by-step demonstrations and several reproductions of the artist's work with information as to how the effects were achieved. To sum up a really good buy but perhaps more suitable for the artist with a little bit of experience rather than someone just starting out.

Terry's Brush Strokes
This book by Terry "Heart of the Village" Harrison gives the reader the benefit of the author's vast experience in rural, sporting and landscape scenes and is a superb companion for the amateur watercolour enthusiast. The book's easy-to-read format and accompanying examples of Harrison masterpieces has given me, a relative novice, a keen insight into the intricate world of art. I was pleased to see Harrison was able to translate his undoubted artistic talent into accessible advice. Not always easy with geniuses.

beginners watercolouring
I am a 'beginner' after 30+ years of neglecting this wonderful relaxing pasttime. I bought this book and had fantastic guidance, page after page. I now use a Wizard brush (thanks Terry) for my watercolour painted trees and shrubs and for beautiful painted lines in ploughed fields and glistening seas - a good practical guide for people who cannot get tuition. I have ordered one for my brother who is also taking up watercolour painting in his early 30s.