Book Review: Line and Wash in the Urban Landscape by Neil Whitehead

Neil Whitehead is an urban landscape artist based in UK known for his energetic paintings, quick and loose watercolour sketches.

This book is suitable for beginners who want to learn more about urban sketching. The book's a 128-page paperback published by Search Press.

There are many techniques and step by step tutorials included that you can follow along to get some hands-on practice. Several reference photos are included so you can challenge yourself to sketch those.

Along the way you'll also learn basic art fundamentals to creating good looking sketches. There are tips on framing the scene, simplifying, understanding proportion, perspective and creating lively watercolour washes.

The sketching exercises are designed to build confidence to show how accessible urban sketching. Neil's loose style means you don't have to stress too much about capturing all the details.

This book is meant as a quick guide so it does not cover all the art fundamentals in great detail, so you'll have to search for other materials to learn more.

If you enjoy urban sketching, be sure to check out all the other urban sketching related books I've featured over the years.

To see more art from Neil Whitehead, visit his Instagram and Facebook pages. He also has a couple of sketching videos on his Youtube channel.

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