Painting Successful Watercolours from Photographs

By Geoff Kersey

Book Overview

Artists who work from photographic source material need to learn how to adapt and improve in order to create a successful painting. Geoff Kersey is a master of this way of working, and here he shows... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844489981
• ISBN13: 9781844489985
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Search Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Painting Successful Watercolours from Photographs is possible. . . Kersey makes it look siimple!

I was so interested in this book, that I bought it twice! This isn't a step by step guide like Matthew Palmer's Beginner's Guide to Watercolor, but I gleaned some important information from this book. In the introduction, Kersey explains that one of his favorite artists had painted a scene that he really liked. Years later he went to the spot that the artist had used as inspiration for the landscape. He was disappointed to discover that the artist had used artistic license to adapt the scene to fit his concept of the area. Kersey then shows how he has taken simple photos to make beautiful landscape paintings. He discusses what he changes and why. He doesn't use computer software to alter the photos and doesn't go into extensive photography. He has a wonderful grasp of color and lists his colors and the mixes he used to get them. There are several projects that he shows how he has used artistic license to compose his paintings.