People who want to learn to paint without relying on their drawing skills have everything they need in this book. Terry Harrison shows how to paint five beautiful Irish scenes including a crofter's cottage, cliffs, mountains and a Dublin doorway, and all the outlines are provided as pull-out tracings.

Expert watercolour tutor and television presenter, Dermot Cavanagh, shows how to paint five beautiful Irish landscapes, and tracings are provided so that readers can get straight down to painting.

Pull-out outlines on tracing paper are provided for six beautiful paintings, along with full step-by-step instructions for how to bring Irish landscapes to life with watercolours.

"Irish Watercolors and Drawings offers a unique chronicle of Irish history. The exquisite watercolors, drawings, and pastels reproduced here capture a broad range of Irish experience, extending beyond picturesque landscapes and pretty colleens to Irish emigrants arriving in America, polar expeditions, Maori encampments, army barracks, horse races, taverns, grand country houses, and the interiors of Irish cabins." "Key Irish artists such as George Barret, Francis Danby, Frederick William Burton, and Jack Yeats, along with many less well known figures, are seen in historical and social contexts. Irish painters abroad - in North America, Australia, New Zealand, India, and elsewhere - are treated in a special section. Artists who visited and were inspired by Ireland are also represented." "The comprehensive text accompanies more than 400 illustrations, among them many unfamiliar works from museums and private collections around the world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Galway artist Roisin Cure presents snapshots of life in the City of the Tribes in bold ink and vibrant watercolor. Her sketches show the beautiful details of Galway's pubs, the musicians and buskers, the exquisite medieval stonework, the marine environment, the vibrant nightlife culture, and the local colorful characters. These striking pictures are accompanied by recollections of conversations the artist had while sketching. This book is a unique souvenir of Galway, of a city that is famous for the arts and yet has so little in the way of visual art. It is a very timely book, released in advance of Galway 2020, when the city celebrates being European Capital of Culture.

This first in-depth chronicle of Irish watercolors and drawings is a remarkable visual record of Ireland's landscapes and its history. Trace the foundation and development of watercolors and drawings in that country, and discover their many aspects, traditions, and techniques. Over 70 color and 175 black-and-white illustrations reproduce miniatures, topographical views, classical landscapes, botanical and decorative studies of plants, caricatures, marine painting, and portraits. Concise biographies of more than 200 artists, from the relatively unknown to the widely acclaimed and sought after, summarize important aspects of the artists' lives or works.

Jack B. Yeats, son of a painter and brother of the poet, is undoubtedly the outstanding Irish painter of this century. His work is collected by all the major galleries of modern art, and is currently attracting very high prices. In 1970 Hilary Pyle published an excellent biography of Yeats, and since then she has been working on the complete catalogue of his works: a lavish oils catalogue came out in 1992. Yeats is unique among Irish artists in that he spent the first twelve years of his career working solely in watercolour, bringing the technique to a perfection comparable with Turner and Cezanne, prior to choosing oil as his medium. This watercolour catalogue includes over 700 examples of his work dating from 1897 to 1910, with further examples from earlier and later periods. For each entry there is technical data (comprising title of painting, measurements, signature if signed, dates and details of its being exhibited, etc.) with an explanatory paragraph where needed. There are numerous thumb-nail reproductions for identification, and sixteen pages of colour illustrations.