With step-by-step guidance, Inga introduces the essential supplies, colour theory  and techniques you’ll need to get started, from washes and glazing to creating texture with salt, dry brush or masking fluid. She then leads you through inspiring projects that explore a wide range of natural and travel subjects, including:

• Water: learn to capture tranquil reflections, rippling movement and the soft transparency of waves using watercolour’s natural fluidity.  
• Mountains: explore light, shadow and rocky textures to create depth and drama in striking mountain scenes.  
• Trees and meadows: practice painting flora, from delicate leaves to lively wildflowers and grasses.  
• Seasons: discover how shifting palettes and moods can bring the atmosphere of each season to life on paper.  
• Travel sketches: try portable, playful approaches to quickly documenting your journeys and everyday surroundings.  

Along the way, you’ll also find advice on composition, drawing  and developing your creative practice, so that your painting becomes not just a skill, but a joyful and mindful habit.  

Illustrated throughout with Inga’s signature gentle style, Painting Landscapes is more than a how-to manual: it’s an invitation to reconnect with nature, nurture your creativity and discover the restorative calm of watercolour. Perfect for anyone drawn to the beauty of the outdoors, this is a guide to return to again and again.  

Drawing helps you see. The more you draw, the more you look, and the more your world opens up.

Many of us feel we can’t draw even though as children we drew unselfconsciously. Artist Sam Marshall believes we are all inherently creative and through her book she invites you into a welcoming workshop where you will develop techniques to help you maintain a regular drawing practice. This is not a ‘how to draw’ book but an encouraging project guide that will support you to sketch and be creative in your own way.

The book starts with a series of warm-up exercises and then leads into a set of challenges divided into chapters that increase in complexity from drawing at home and in green spaces to drawing from paintings. It concludes with a series of more advanced exercises including collage as a means of drawing and working on larger imaginative pieces.

Sam suggests the use of a variety of materials including coloured pencils, felt tips, inks and marker pens. For each exercise she presents her own drawings and observations as well as those from a select group of her students to show that everyone’s mark making is unique.

This is an inspirational guide that will change the way you think and feel about drawing. It will help you to discover the joy of drawing in a sketchbook as a way of looking, reflecting and relaxing.

Here, the great, polymathic artist and craftsman shares what he has learned over the course of a lifetime of making and thinking about art. Unlike his contemporaries, Gentleman was never a teacher; his lessons are a sequence of unconventional prompts and reflections that will deepen how you think about art and the world around you.

Sincere, practical and unpretentious, Gentleman’s insights are a breath of fresh air. Here are new ways to focus, notice the world and cultivate your own style; techniques to evolve your work, from playing with time to painting in bad weather; methods for getting the most out of mistakes and negative criticism; and, above all, reminders to return, always, to the simple delights of creativity.

Packed with tips and tricks, this book features practical projects from the starting sketch to building up your scene and that all-important final flourish – learn how to pick up a paint brush and paint nature through the seasons. The themes include fauna and flora, animals and window scenes.

Featuring clear step-by-step instructions and illustrations, Gemma will gently guide budding beginners, or intermediate-level artists to pick up a brush to paint their way through the seasons. Painting Nature offers a springboard to unleashing your creativity, reigniting a love of art as you refine your technique
Projects Include:

SPRING – Spring wreath, Spring flowers, Painting readymade wooden eggs, Spring window scene
SUMMER – Summer flowers, Midsummer moon, Shells and seaweed, Sea views
AUTUMN – Mini mushroom matchbox, Autumn leaves, nuts and seeds, Autumn fruits sketchbook, Autumn window scene
WINTER – Winter wreath, Snowflakes, Fox in the moonlight, Winter window scene