Ready To Paint In 30 Minutes: Boats & Harbours In Watercolour (build Your Skills With Quick & Easy Painting Projects)

An ideal beginner''s guide to painting boats and harbours in watercolour for artists who are short on time.

"This is a genuinely exciting evolution of a popular series. You’ll be guided through some simple exercises and on to complete paintings, gaining valuable insights that will develop and improve your skills." – Artbookreview.net

This guide to painting boats and harbours in watercolour is ideal if you want to learn to paint but are short on time. Broken down into 33 quick and easy postcard size paintings, this basic course will teach you all the skills you need to paint boats, yachts or barges on calm seas or raging waves, including how to depict reflections in water, realistic spray and the suggestion of a busy harbourside or coastal village.

Tracings
Introduction 6
Basic painting equipment 8
Colour 10

Skies and water 12
A simple scene 14
Evening walk 16
Overcast sky 18
Calm before the storm 20
Sunset sky 22
Still water with reflections 24

Textures and effects 26
On the lake 28
Ripples 30
Shadows 32
Trees and foliage 34
Simple stonework 36

Boats 38
Continental fishing boat 40
Canal boats 42
Sailing in choppy waters 44
Shrimping boat 46
Moored on the mud 48
On the sand 50
Gondola 52
harbours and Buildings 54
At the harbour wall 56
Harbour with fishing boats 58
Lighthouse 60
Village on the water 62
Seaside village 64
Honfleur 66
Exotic harbour 68

Waterside details 70
Lobster pots 72
Lifebelt 74
Buoys on the beach 76

People and animals 78
Gone fishing 80
Along the towpath 82
Cormorant fishing 84
Seagull 86
Dogs on the dinghy 88

The Roundhouse 90
Racing Yachts 92
Continental Harbour 94

Index 96

Super art book - especially if, like me, you love boats! I loved that there are tracing sheets to use if you don’t fancy drawing the pictures! Easy to follow instructions and pictures. Lots of projects to enjoy (33!) and achieve!

Waterside subjects are a perennial favourite for artists, partly because of the immense variety of challenges and opportunities they offer. However, if you find yourself struggling-and maybe spoiled for choice-the always-reliable Charles Evans is on hand to help.

There are no fewer than 33 projects here, each with its own pre-drawn tracing that gets the outline and composition right before you start. With that out of the way, you can concentrate on colour, washes, shading and all the detail that makes a successful painting. 

You''ll find just about everything you want here: still waters, rippling streams, waves beaches, crafts of all kinds, buildings, people, animals, the whole gamut. Some exercises concentrate on simple techniques or topics, while others introduce more complex scenes. There''s plenty to get your teeth into and you can work in any order and at any pace that suits you. Need to go back and try again? No problem, you can repeat any part as often as you like.

I want to say this is a complete course, but it''s so much more fun than is implied by that, and Charles is a confident and generous guide and tutor.

From the popular Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes series comes Charles Evan''s Boats & Harbours in Watercolour. For anyone short of time, Charles has created 33 quick and easy postcard-size paintings as the basis of a course of exercises for you to work through. Detailed techniques and step-by-step projects cover all you need to know to paint boats and water, with interesting sections on depicting r