Watercolour is especially suited for coastal scenes because its translucent washes help to capture the soft, shifting qualities of the oceans and hazy horizons, and this comprehensive beginner’s guide offers the right tools, instructions and inspiration needed to get started. It features ten different subjects, from ships in a harbour and fishing nets on a beach, to clifftop seabirds and a wetland estuary. The paintings are broken down into four easy-to-follow, illustrated stages, each accompanied by tips and advice for the different elements of the scene, and there are templates for each scene to help set up the initial composition. The experience and skills you will build up by working through the book will give you the confidence to paint your very own coastal scenes.
Author Information
- Lois & Morgaine Davidson
- Lois Davidson is an English watercolour artist with over 40 years of experience. She has been painting professionally since 2020, and was shortlisted for the Jackson's Painting Prize in 2021. She offers painting tutorials and more learning-based watercolour workshops on Patreon, and she runs a popular online art community. She sells her paintings across the world and exhibits her work locally and online.
Morgaine Davidson is an avid creative with a passion for art and wildlife. Since graduating from university with a master’s degree in English & Creative Writing, she has worked in a variety of different mediums, experimenting with combining art and the written word. She has penned articles for Jackson’s Art Blog, and her fiction has been shortlisted for a number of prizes, including the Mslexia Best Women’s Short Fiction Competition 2023. She currently teaches watercolour painting online via YouTube and Patreon, specialising in capturing the liminal beauty of the natural world.
Together, Lois and Morgaine run a successful YouTube channel which boasts over 115,000 subscribers and demonstrates traditional and experimental watercolour techniques.
