Ready to Paint Postcards: Woodlands: 15 Stunning Watercolour Paintings to Create in Just 30 Minutes

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Learn to paint pocket-sized woodland watercolour scenes in 15 half-hour lessons with best-selling author and trusted watercolour teacher Geoff Kersey. Fast, fun results, with full-size templates! Within this inspiring, practical book are full instructions for 15 small but perfectly-formed landscape paintings themed around trees and woodlands. The 30-minute paintings are all worked at postcard size - ideal for a 6 x 4in (A6) watercolour pad - and simple outline drawings are provided for those who are less confident at drawing. Highly varied, the projects range from snow scenes to bluebell woods, and show you how to use classic watercolour techniques with minimal materials to produce beautiful postcards to keep, send or show off. The beginner-friendly projects are packed with hints and tips and structured step by step, making it easy to follow the instructions and achieve your own fantastic results! Each of the 15 projects takes just 30 minutes, so are quick and easy to paint in an evening or in a spare afternoon. No drawing is necessary - full-sized line drawings for each postcard artwork are provided at the back of the book. This book uses material previously published as Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes: Trees and Woodlands (9781782215264).

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Geoff Kersey is an experienced watercolourist and is much in demand as a teacher and demonstrator. He lives and works from his studio in Derbyshire, and he travels and exhibits extensively. A successful commercial artist and writer, he contributes to various art publications and has written many best-selling watercolour books including How to Paint Skies, Painting Successful Watercolours from Photographs and Take Three Colours: Watercolour Seascapes, with over 176,000 books sold worldwide. He now runs highly successful online tutorials via his website www.watercolourlandscapes.co.uk