Product Description

Popular author, Terry Harrison, shows how to paint seas and skies using simple watercolour techniques. Step-by-step photographs and clear explanations show how to achieve the effects needed to paint the various elements of skies and seascapes. These are then combined in three demonstrations showing every stage of painting a beautiful picture, from drawing to finishing touches. Learn how to create impressive paintings of crashing waves, a coastal footpath and a sunset over the sea.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15789 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 48 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 fine 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.

Customer Reviews

great sea and sky techniques
Terry begins by a brief overview of materials and colours - he says buy the best quality paints and papers and this is something I agree with. He outlines the colours he uses and shows which to mix to make some good sea colours. Terry has his own range of brushes on sale and I found it useful that he showed the marks each one can create.

The painting section begins by explaining - with pictures- basic watercolour techniques such as wet in wet and lifting out, then moves on to a useful section on how to paint different seas, from calm water to crashing waves, and goes on to cover many of the elements for creating sea paintings, such as rocks, reflections and shorelines in separate detail. I found this very useful as it allows any combination of sea paintings to be created, and the instructions were very clear and easy to follow. The latter section of the book contains three demos, using many of the techniques already demonstrated and each one is very clear about what step, colour and brush to use next.

An excellent soft back book for those interested in creating sea and sky paintings in watercolour, with clear easy to follow instructions.

Tery Harrrisons Sea and sky in watercolour
This is a wonderfull book with it's step by step instructions on how to get the likeness of the watercolour picture you are looking at. this gives you deeper understanding of how to get the look you want on other pictures you wish to paint . Many thanks

Great tips
This book has got some great tips especially for doing rocks which i have always struggled to do. Also the step by step guide is brilliant.