Fresh Watercolour: Bring Light and Life to Your Painting

by Ray Campbell Smith

A guide to watercolour techniques for beginners and those dissatisfied by their progress. Shows how materials can affect technique, offers advice on composition, perspective and tone, and demonstrates how watercolour is the ideal medium for capturing, spontaneously and directly, effects of light.

142 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1992

About the author

Internationally noted artist Ray Smith has exhibited in solo and group shows around the world. A lecturer at the Chelsea School of Art and at Exeter Art College, he was recently Artist-in-Residence at the University of Southampton in the UK. Smith has received many distinguished awards for his work, including an Arts Council Award, a Lindbury Trust artist's award, and the Deutscher Jugendbuch Preis. He has written several titles in The DK Art School series, and is the author of The Artist's Handbook and How to Draw and Paint What You See.

Reviews

[Ron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sorry, no quotable quotes. Smith writes well, but it’s a lot like reading assembly directions--they only make sense to one doing the assembling.

The pictures, on the other hand. Should be enjoyable to anyone who likes art, and watercolor in particular. Smith demonstrates how to get luminescent skies and depth with a minimum of busyness in paintings.

Can’t insert illustrations without violating his ownership rights, of course. See cover art.