Crawshaws Watercolour Studio, developing your watercolour skills indoors from Alwyn Crawshaw

Following the huge success of his best-selling book, A Brush with Art, Alwyn Crawshaw now takes you into his studio and shows you how to :

• Work from your own photographs.

• Paint from pencil sketches.

• Use pen and ink, acrylics and gouache.

(Backcover of book – 1993 Channel 4 TV edition)

Alwyn Crawshaw, already known to millions through his extremely popular television series and bestselling books A Brush with Art, Crawshaw Paints on Holiday and Crawshaw Paints Oils, has brought together in this book everything you need to know about working confidently in the studio.

In Crawshaw's Watercolour Studio, which accompanies the Channel 4 television series of the same name, Alwyn invites you into his studio and shows you how to develop your watercolour painting skills by working indoors both from your imagination, and from sketches and photographs taken on location.

In his chatty and easy to follow style he explains what materials you will need and then demonstrates how to paint landscapes and seascapes, with special emphasis on painting realistic skies and portraying atmosphere. He shows you how to add people to your paintings, how to paint flowers and how to paint imaginary landscapes. Alwyn also introduces you to several other water based painting mediums, explaining how to use pen and wash, and how to paint with gouache and acrylics.

Crawshaw's Watercolour Studio is packed with practical, step by step advice and handy painting tips. You'll find that Alwyn's enthusiasm for working in the studio is infectious - so have a go yourself and discover that watercolour painting is exciting, rewarding and, above all, fun. (Frontflap of book – 1993 Channel 4 TV edition)

Alwyn Crawshaws successful TV series, A Brush with Art, Crawshaw Paints on Holiday and Crawshaw Paints Oils, and his accompanying bestselling books have endeared him to amateur painters everywhere. He is also author of eight books in HarperCollins popular Learn to Paint series, as well as The Half-Hour Painter, Alwyn Crawshaw's Watercolour Painting Course and Alwyn Crawshaw's Oil Painting Course.

Besides lecturing to art groups and societies, Alwyn runs very popular painting holidays and courses. He is a regular contributor to Leisure Painter magazine and other art magazines, and has made many videos on painting. Alwyn has had numerous one-man shows and his paintings are in many private collections. He and his wife June run their own gallery in Dawlish, Devon. (Backflap of book – 1993 Channel 4 TV edition)

Contents :

Portrait of the artist

Introduction

Materials

Watercolour

• colours

• brushes

• paper

• basic kit

Gouache

• colours

• brushes

• paper

• basic kit

Acrylics

• colours

• brushes

• painting surfaces

• palette

• basic kit

The 8 TV programmes

A book to accompany the Channel 4 TV series … develop your watercolour skills indoors

1 - Painting the Seasons

Sketching tips

Spring

Important colours

• The spring greens

• The blue sky

• The shadow of the clouds

Winter

Important colours

• The sky

• The snow shadows

Autumn

Important colours

• The sky

• Ther autumn field and trees

• The puddles

Close up details

2 – Small sketches

Important colours

• The clouds

• The cloud shadows

• The canopy

• The yacht hull

Painting tips

Close up details

3 – Using photographs

Pen and wash

Important colours

• The sky and sea

• The quay

Close up details

4 – Painting skies

Important colours

• Evening sky

• The stormy sky

• The blue sky

• The clouds

• The cloud shadows

Painting tips

5 - Using imaginaton

Important colours

• The snow

• The snow shadows

• The dark tree

• The light tree

Close up details

6 – Creating atmosphere

Late afternoon

Important colours

• The sky

• The cliffs

• The beach

Before the storm

Important colours

• The sky

• The cliffs

In the mist

Painting tips

Important colours

• The sky

• The cliffs

7 – In the garden

Using gouache

Important colours

• The garden pots and bricks

• The sunlit leaves

• The white flowers in shadow

• The mauve flowers in shadow

Close up details

8 - Painting landscapes

Using acrylics

Important colours

• The sky

• The big tree

Acrylic painting tips

Close up details

Gallery

A carpet of bluebells.

Winter in the woods.

A winter river.

Ilkley, Yorkshire.

Turf Lock, Devon.

The Parson and Clerk, Dawlish, Devon.

Exmouth Harbour, Devon.

Windy day, River Otter the gate.

First time round.

The rain stopped.

Winter sun.

Bert and Daisy.

Come on, Daisy.

Where's he gone now?

A wonderful view.

(Source - 1993 Channel 4 TV edition)

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