Art Instruction Book - WATERCOLOUR - Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes: Seascapes - by Matthew Palmer (Author)

Build your skills with quick & easy painting projects.

Short on time but bursting with creativity? Learn to paint dynamic watercolour seascapes with these thirty-three quick-and-easy, skill-building projects.

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Best-selling author Matthew Palmer has included all his tried-and-tested tips and techniques, along with step-by-step instructions and full-size tracings for all stunning projects.

This beginner’s course in watercolour contains a series of 33 ocean-themed painting projects, each designed to take 30 minutes or fewer, and structured to build up your skills gradually.

Start simple with still water and rippling tides, then move on to creating crashing waves, coastal buildings, boats, sun-bleached sand, wild waves, lightning on the ocean, yachts, palm trees and rocky shores.

Designed for busy hobby artists who want to snatch moments to paint here or there, each of these compact projects is explained in 10 steps or fewer and is accompanied by a full-size outline on tracing paper.

Covers watercolour basics, building up from core watercolour techniques including preparing paper and paint and blending.

The exercises are all worked at postcard size ideal for a 6 x 4in (A6) watercolour pad.

At the end of the book discover 3 larger scale finished paintings that demonstrate how to integrate the techniques you’ve learned into vibrant and inspiring seascapes; these complete paintings also have an accompanying actual-size tracing.

Table of Contents

• Tracings
  Introduction 6
  Basic painting equipment 8
  Painting basics 10

  Through the day 12
  Calm Morning 14
  Cloudy Sky 16
  Moonlit Reflections 18
  Sunset Seascape 20
  Early Morning on the Beach 22

  Stormy waters 24
  Breaking Waves 26
  Wild Waves 28
  Waves on Rocks 30
  Lightning Strike 32
  Stormy Waves 34
  Adapting the tracings 36

  Coastal buildings 38
  Clifftop Castle 40
  Monochrome 42
  Lighthouse 44
  Harbour Bridge 46
  Venice 48
  Cottage by the Sea 50

  Boats 52
  Fishing Boat 54
  White Yacht 56
  Galleon 58
  Rowing Boat 60
  Sailing Boat 62
  Boat on the Beach 64

  Rocks and cliffs 66
  Rocky Island 68
  The Needles 70
  Rocky Shoreline 72
  White Cliffs 74
  Clifftop View 76

  Sandy beaches 78
  Birds at Sunset 80
  Palm Trees 82
  Flying Kites 84
  Rustic Deckchair and Parasol 86
  Beach Huts 88

  Guiding Light 90
  On Stormy Waters 92
  By the Sea 94

  Index 96

Publisher: Search Press
Edition: BC Paperback with tracings
Publication: 13 January 2026
Size: 216x280 mm
Pages: 128