Dynamic Seascapes

Judith Yates There’s an old adage that you can never step in the same river twice. It could also be said that you can never actually see a wave.

It is, after all, just a movement, albeit one given form by that least and most solid of substances: water. As a form, it’s constantly changing and it’s that change that makes it what it is. To paint a wave, therefore, requires the artist to freeze an infinitely small moment while also conveying the sense of motion and drama that a wave produces.

Judith meets this seemingly impossible challenge head-on in watercolour and acrylic, explaining techniques both of creation and application. She considers drama, serenity, light and reflections as well as skies, buildings and landforms. This is an exciting and thoroughly practical guide to painting seascapes that covers all the moods of the sea and a huge variety of ways to depict them.

Search Press £15.99, 144 pages (P/B) ISBN 9781782218234