30-Minute Landscapes: Quick and easy lessons for keeping your paintings loose and fresh

by Paul Talbot-Greaves

Discover the benefits of completing a watercolor painting in 30 minutes or lessSpending hours or even days on a watercolor painting can lead to dull, muddy results. But a surefire way to keep your paintings loose and fresh is to work quickly! In this informative, 64-page book, accomplished artist Paul Talbot-Greaves proves that painting in watercolor doesn't have to be an all-day event. In fact, an impressive landscape scene can be created in just 30 minutes or less, which Paul demonstrates in 27 step-by-step lessons. To discourage readers from overworking their paintings, the author breaks down each lesson into short blocks of time, indicating how many minutes should be spent on each stage. In addition, he provides practical information on tone, color, pattern, light, and more, so readers can improve their skills and develop their "artist's eye."

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

64 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2008

Reviews

[melmarian]

A watercolor landscape tutorial book with clear and easy to follow instructions. Quick tip: don't obsess over the time frame given by the book and take as much time as you need.

Some of my paintings based on this book:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxhZsxsjZEn/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2bjXenA_wv/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxmieo_jKRL/

[Charles Ray]

Watercolor Made Easy: 30-Minute Landscapes by Paul Talbot-Greaves is a comprehensive guide to painting landscapes in watercolor, compositions that can be completed in 30 minutes or less. This handy how-to book is useful for beginners and experienced painters alike, and will add new life to your art.

I purchased this book from Amazon several years ago, and have read it several times, and finally decided to post a review to let other budding artists know of this valuable book.

[Sabrina]

Love it! Now that I’m more of a novice than a complete beginner, this book is so useful. It shows you how to paint quickly with more assured strokes but without specifying every tiny little thing as it assumes you know the basics.
Very well targeted for improvers

[David Carlson]

Some good examples and techniques.

[T. L.]

already did 3 painting based on the photo-tutorial instructions, quite impressive results, im only a beginner in watercolour painting but the ones i did look like they have been painted by a professional. some of the paintings might take more than 30 minutes to complete if you are a beginner but other than that very easy to follow and provides beautiful painting for practice.

[Romeo]

les exercises sont tres utiles