A Rocky Mountain Sketchbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Watercolour Painting and Drawing in the Mountain Landscape

by Donna Jo Massie

This bestselling guide to watercolour painting highlights the basic skills and materials required to venture out into the mountains and create a unique watercolour sketch...even if you’ve never painted before!


Donna Jo Massie’s classic and highly sought-after instructional book has been newly formatted and packaged as a durable hardcover for the modern traveller interested in capturing the stunning beauty of mountain landscapes in one of the world’s most visited tourist destinations: the Canadian Rocky Mountains.


This user-friendly guide takes the aspiring artist through all aspects of developing a love and appreciation for travelling and painting in mountain environments. With information on how to begin a sketchbook and what materials to pack, lessons on surrounding trees, flowers, rocks, water and shadows, a glossary and a list of suggested reference books, this new edition of A Rocky Mountain Sketchbook is certain to entice a whole new generation of watercolour enthusiasts to venture into the natural world with paper, brushes and palette.

Genres: Art

112 pages, Hardcover

First published June 14, 2016