Introduction
Materials
Drawing and sketching
Using photographs
Composition
Colour
Creating perspective
Techniques
Projects:
Clear Sky in Winter
Cloud Shadows
Sky and Water
Stormy Sky
Light and Atmosphere
Evening Light
Geoff Kersey is an experienced watercolourist and is much in demand as a teacher and demonstrator. He lives and works in Derbyshire, where he has a studio, and he exhibits extensively. He has made many watercolour DVDs, contributes to various art publications and has written many bestselling watercolour books. http://www.geoffkersey.co.uk/
Skies are a tricky yet essential part of landscape paintings. This
book begins with advice to help you understand how watercolour
behaves, so you can produce a broad range of effects, before
outlining the materials you will need, and finishing with six
indepth step-by-step projects.
*Artists & Illustrators*
Once again, Search Press have been raiding and renovating their
backlist. I reviewed this on its original publication in 2006, so
there’s little to add here except to say that the reissue has been
redesigned and that some additional material has been added from
Geoff’s Top Tips for Watercolour Artists to beef up the technical
sections. The result is a freshness that belies the book’s age and
it feels, as it is, thoroughly up to date. Originally
reviewed 22nd August 2006: It’s all John Constable’s fault. If he
hadn’t been a Suffolk lad, English painting wouldn’t be so tied up
in big skies. That’s the thing about a flat landscape: there’s not
a lot of foreground and an awful lot of up there and, because we
have an island climate, there’s a lot going on in it as well. So,
an English landscape is always going, more or less, to stand or
fall on its sky and another book on the subject is always handy.
This one comes in Search Press’s Watercolour Tips & Techniques
series which is aimed at painters who have developed a reasonable
facility but are still in the relatively early stages of the
learning process. Lavishly illustrated and with plenty of detailed
step-by-step demonstrations, there’s never any problem with seeing
what’s going on and all of the books in the series are clearly
written and presented and are easy to follow. Geoff Kersey is a
capable painter and he is particularly good at handling and
demonstrating the use of washes and granulation to achieve a
variety of effects that make for interesting and varied skies. If I
have a quibble, it’s that maybe his foregrounds are a little bit
flat and that the overall result maybe doesn’t scream “hang me on
the wall” as loudly as it might, but that’s a personal preference.
You’re not buying the paintings, you’re buying a book that’ll help
you paint effective skies and that’s what this will do. It’s a book
that’ll repay continued study and almost certainly will help you
quite thoroughly on your way. It’s not one of those books that
looks good but fails to deliver or one which you’ll admire like
heck but know you’ll never emulate. It’s a money well spent.
*Artbookreview.net*
Apr-17 For the landscape painter, skies are all-important - setting
the tone and atmosphere of the scene. Geoff Kersey's revised and
updated book , How to Paint Skies brings us plenty of
practical advice on how to tackle the subject of skies in
watercolour and give a sense of cohesion and atmosphere to your
work. Skies covered include, amongst others, a stormy sky, a summer
sky, evening glow, sunset and low cloud. There's information on
materials you'll need, how to sketch skies, use photographs,
compostion colour and perspective. The book closes with six
step-by-step projects for you to try out your new found skills.
*The Leisure Painter*
A flick through this book reveals some wonderful examples of
watercolour not just skies. Skies are often difficult to capture,
to make them look real and if you get it wrong, the whole painting
can be spoiled. Geoff offers solutions in this book and ways to
paint skies. At the front of the book, you'll find techniques that
will help you paint not just skies, but that can also be applied
other features of a painting too. You'll find all the information
on materials too. You'll discover how to depict some popular
'themes' regarding skies - stormy, low cloud, a glow, sunset and
summer skies. Geoff's paintings shown throughout the book provide
plenty of inspiration. The 6 step-by-step projects ensure that you
can have a go and improve your techniques. This updated and revised
edition includes previously published work. Recommended.
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Using photographs, Geoff explains colour, perspective and
composition before moving on to some basic exercises that involve
washes, brushwork, clouds, sunsets and more.
*The SAA*
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