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Joe Francis Dowden free tips - read the full post to view the free tips.

As the days grow longer and spring starts to warm up the days it’s time to think about getting out and about, drawing and painting. Joe Francis Dowden’s book, The Landscape Painter’s Essential Handbook, is packed with 50 projects on how to paint beautiful landscapes in watercolour.

To celebrate spring being just around the corner and giving us more chance to get out and paint, below is the first of a few new free projects.

Joe Francis Dowden shows us some great tips on how to paint a shingle beach. As Joe mentions in his opening line for these tips, “A million pebbles on a beach, jumbled one on top of the other, all different colours, all in perspective”, if you are like me you will be thinking where do I start, but these great tips will guide you in the right direction.

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As we celebrate the launch of the new look RUBooks web site we have some free projects for our artists and photographers. The second FREE art project, which you can view or download and take away with you by opening and reading the full post. We hope you enjoy it but let us know what you think, plus, if you have any ideas on the projects you would like to see, just leave us a comment and let us know.

In this great little project, artist Joe Francis Dowden shows us tips for painting surf breaking over rocks, the colour palette used and some steps to help create a wonderful watercolour image. The project itself is taken from the book, The Landscape Painter’s Essential Handbook, which shows you how to paint 50 beautiful landscapes in watercolour.

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