Watercolour and Beyond - David Bellamy

Watercolour and Beyond by David Bellamy is a practical guide to pushing landscape painting past pure watercolour through experimentation and technique. This paperback edition is subtitled Exploring the frontiers of landscape painting.

Key details

• Author: David Bellamy
• Paperback
• 160 pages
• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 13 May 2025
• ISBN: 9781800923003

Synopsis

David Bellamy, described as a long-standing authority on landscape in watercolour, sets out more than 60 approaches and exercises designed to help artists explore the boundaries of the medium. Alongside over 100 examples of his work, the book uses tips, visual references and step-by-step technique to encourage new ways of working.

It begins with a fresh look at traditional watercolour, including working with a single colour, a limited palette and harmonious colour combinations. From there, it moves into developing personal style by combining watercolour with materials such as gouache, inks, collage, pastels, stamping, gesso and watercolour ground, as well as experimenting with different surfaces and found materials. Later sections focus on interpreting and altering subjects, including adjusting light and colour, changing emphasis, and revising or rescuing passages in a painting, before concluding with project ideas for applying your skills. Aimed at landscape artists of all abilities, it is particularly suited to confident watercolour painters looking for new challenges.

Rackhams Reference : C5923ME4KJ