David Bellamy's Watercolour Landscape Course is a popular guide to landscape painting that has sold over 55,000 copies to date. Structured and practical in approach, it is unique in that it has amateur painters painting pictures right from the start. Well-known teacher-artist David Bellamy helps students to learn techniques by producing actual sketches, studies and watercolour paintings in this inspiring and practical guide. The book is divided into three main parts: / The first section covers all the practical aspects of watercolour painting; / the second section is more challenging, requiring students to take a little more initiative and develop their own style; and / the third shows how to paint the many different elements of the landscape. The course includes numerous practical exercises which highlight the key points covered in each chapter and there are twelve demonstration pictures with clear, step-by-step instructions. / Sales of over 55,000 copies to date. / David Bellamy is a well-respected teacher of art, with a tremendous following among leisure painters. / A practical course, with numerous exercises, designed to help students to paint pictures right from the start. / Beautifully illustrated with a variety of David Bellamy's evocative watercolour landscapes.

David Bellamy's Watercolour Landscape Course is a popular guide to landscape painting that has sold over 55,000 copies to date. Structured and practical in approach, it is unique in that it has amateur painters painting pictures right from the start. Well-known teacher-artist David Bellamy helps students to learn techniques by producing actual sketches, studies and watercolour paintings in this inspiring and practical guide. The book is divided into three main parts: / The first section covers all the practical aspects of watercolour painting; / the second section is more challenging, requiring students to take a little more initiative and develop their own style; and / the third shows how to paint the many different elements of the landscape. The course includes numerous practical exercises which highlight the key points covered in each chapter and there are twelve demonstration pictures with clear, step-by-step instructions.

David Bellamy's Watercolour Landscape Course is a popular guide to landscape painting that has sold over 55,000 copies to date. Structured and practical in approach, it is unique in that it has amateur painters painting pictures right from the start. Well-known teacher-artist David Bellamy helps students to learn techniques by producing actual sketches, studies and watercolour paintings in this inspiring and practical guide. The book is divided into three main parts: / The first section covers all the practical aspects of watercolour painting; / the second section is more challenging, requiring students to take a little more initiative and develop their own style; and / the third shows how to paint the many different elements of the landscape. The course includes numerous practical exercises which highlight the key points covered in each chapter and there are twelve demonstration pictures with clear, step-by-step instructions.

David Bellamy was brought up in Pembrokeshire and is well-known for his atmospheric watercolours of landscapes, as well as his paintings of the sea and coastline. Highly regarded as a teacher of art, David has a tremendous following among leisure painters,many of whom have attended his extremely popular courses both in the UK and overseas. He also gives demonstrations and talks, has produced five successful videos on watercolour painting and is a regular contributor to the Leisure Painter magazine.
David Bellamy is the bestselling author of Developing Your Watercolours, the sequel to Watercolour Landscape Course, as well as Coastal Landscapes and Learn To Paint Watercolour Landscapes, all published by Collins. Through his painting and writing he hopes to bring about a greater awareness of threats to the natural environment.

David Bellamy is a well-known artist who runs many very popular courses for watercolourists. He has produced a number of successful painting videos and is the author of several other books published by HarperCollins, including Developing your Watercolours, (the sequel to this book), Learn to Paint Watercolour Landscapes and Coastal Landscapes.

2006-05-16 Absolute Beginners Beware

It's still early days for me, but I've found this a bit of a struggle as a first watercolour tutorial book. Whilst I like the concept of diving straight in, I do find that the book glosses over basic things like exactly how wet the paint should be, and whether a wash is done horizontally or vertically for a given effect. A couple of extra pages on basic techniques would have helped me, and so I'm now looking for an alternative primer or face-to-face tuition.