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 how it is done. Reference photographs, colour charts and preparatory sketches are shown alongside all the finished paintings in this book, with full details of the adaptations and creative processes involved. There are plenty of clear tips and advice, and an illustrated glossary of all the painting terms used. Readers who want much more advice on adapting from reference sources than is provided in step by step painting books will have all they need here, and there are dozens of beautiful paintings to inform and inspire them.

• 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.