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With 3 colours, 3 brushes and this practical advice, you can start painting watercolour landscapes

Welcome to the wonderful world of watercolour

If you’ve always wanted to have a go at painting landscapes, this is the book for you. All you need are three tubes of paint, three brushes and a pad of watercolour paper, and you’re ready to go!

Geoff Kersey shows you how to mix all the colours you need from just red, blue and yellow, and guides you every step of the way as you paint skies, lakes, woodlands, mountains and more. Build up your skills as you work through the nine easy projects, and produce beautiful watercolour paintings you’ll be proud to put on display.

*Ideal for anyone new to watercolour painting

*Amazing results achieved in just a few simple steps

*Builds up skills and confidence as you paint

Geoff Kersey shows people who have never picked up a paintbrush how to paint convincing watercolour landscapes using just 3 colours, 3 brushes, a plastic palette and a watercolour pad. Only 3 affordable Students’ range watercolour paints are used: light red, cadmium yellow pale and ultramarine blue; yet from these, Geoff shows how 9 realistic watercolour scenes can be painted. There is no colour theory or long-winded mixing information to put off the first-time painter, but a practical absolute beginner's course that shows the three colours in action. Only 3 affordable brushes are needed: no. 10, no. 4 and no. 2 rounds in a synthetic range, to achieve all of the paintings shown. Starting from the simplest of scenes, Geoff Kersey builds skills through 9 easy exercises, resulting in landscapes to be proud of. Start with a simple sky and progress through a basic scene with a reflected sunset, to landscapes that include simple buildings and even a figure. Clear advice and step-by-step photographs show how to add a simple figure to a scene and how to trace and transfer the basic drawings from the finished paintings, which are shown full size in the book for this purpose. Readers have everything they need to get painting.

Colours used: ultramarine, candium yellow pale and light red.

Brushes used: Round brushes no. 10 (Large), no.4 (Medium), and a no.2 (Small)