PAINTING FROM SKETCHES

James Fletcher-Watson, who sadly dled in Juno 2004, was one of the loading traditional landsoape watercolour artists in the UK. In this film he works in his studio and shows us how to paint watercolour landscapes from pencil sketches. Ho selects views of the Lake District and the Windrush river and gives detailed Instruction on how to paint the main elements of a landscape: skies, clouds, mountains, trees, buildings, water and reflections.

James Fletchor-Watson was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and the Royal Society of British Artists. He exhibited widely In Britain, Franco, Australia and the United States, held regular oxhibitions in his studio in the Cotswolds and was the author of several highly popular books,