About the books
These compact guides to landscape drawing will show you how to capture the elements and detail of Rivers and Trees and create great artwork.
- structured in a step-by-step course format
- each section builds confidence
- understand the importance of detailed analysis
- build the quality of your artistic output
- structured in a course format, each section builds confidence
- includes both sketching and coloured pencil drawing
- covers a broad range of techniques and skills for all levels of ability.
- additional sections feature mixed media, collage and using found items such as twigs, moss or seedpods.
Throughout the seasons - and in all weathers - How to Draw a River and How to Draw a Tree offer a unique insight and understanding of the natural world around us and how to capture its beauty in a sketchbook.
Rather than ‘copy this photo’, Alex reveals methods for creating your very own river or tree project, including elements of nature journaling, outdoor sketchbook work, collage, and technical graphite, ink, or coloured pencil drawing.
With clear, step-by-step instructions, each book reveals how to make a varied and interesting tree or river sketchbook project.
Book contents
How to Draw a River
- Drawing still and moving water
- Drawing water in colour
- Nature journaling your river
- Drawing a river source in graphite
- Cross-hatching water
- Drawing the urban river in coloured pencil
- A brush-pen estuary study
- Sketching birds, boats, and insects
- Fish in mixed media
- River mapping
- River phenology wheels
- Working with toned
- paper
- River pollution collage
How to Draw a Tree
- Drawing simple trees
- Nuts, seeds and fruit
- Nature journaling your tree
- Pinecones in graphite
- The winter tree in fineliner
- Blossom and autumn leaves in coloured pencil
- Phenological tree grids and tree frame drawings
- Tropical and coniferous forest sketches
- Make a layered landscape
- Abstraction with bark patterns
- Detailed urban trees in ink
- Organic collage
- Identifying species
See inside!
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