David Bellamy's Winter Landscapes

An artist shares his techniques for creating paintings that bring out the natural beauty of the world during the coldest days of the year.

In David Bellamy's Winter Landscapes, the artist explains the challenges and joys of capturing winter subjects, from how to achieve rapid pencil sketches in less than perfect conditions to painting in watercolor on the spot. Snow completely changes the landscape, simplifying it for the artist, creating marvelous opportunities for reflected light and subtle use of exciting colors. The book begins with the stunning warm colors of late autumn, then moves into the second section covering winter scenes without snow. The following deep mid-winter section shows you how to tackle snow scenes with various types of snow conditions, before we move on to the final section covering early spring.

Also covered is gearing up for working outdoors in winter, techniques for rendering hoar frost on trees, misty and atmospheric effects, injecting rogue colors to add excitement to your work, how to tackle a variety of tree branches for different species, depicting light branches against dark backgrounds, altering the composition to suit your needs, and so much more. For those who really don’t wish to venture out, even on the mildest of winter days, there is a whole host of examples of winter landscapes to help you tackle this fascinating time of year.

Includes Images of Paintings