Down by the Sea with Brush and Pen: Draw and Paint Beautiful Coastal Scenes

Capture the Magic of the Sea with Claudia Nice Nobody captures the misty splashes and weathered details of seascapes quite like Claudia Nice. In this step-by-step guide, Claudia shares her special approach to creating dynamic watercolor compositions textured with pen & ink, acrylics and gouache.

Claudia starts with the basics, so you can advance at your own pace as you follow along through more than 60 step-by-step demonstrations ranging from short mini demos to full-scale paintings. Take a look inside to see how simple and inspiring Claudia?s instruction can be.

Each chapter focuses on a different element of coastal scenery, including crashing waves against rocky bluffs, wide sandy beaches and gently rolling surf, colorful boats and harbors, luminous ocean sunsets, and warm tropical scenes with kids and dogs at play.

You’ll find complete instructions for mixing the colors of active and still water, as well as creating the textures of sand and rock. Claudia also features her own reference photos and field studies to show you how to build solid compositions from a variety of sources. Dozens of quick tips teach you the details that add drama and realism to your seascapes, and 30 complete paintings will inspire you to create your own beautiful coastal scenes. With Claudia Nice, learning to paint lively seascapes is like spending a day at the beach!

About the Author: Claudia Nice is the author of ten successful North Light books including Creating Textures in Pen and Ink with Watercolor, How to Keep a Sketchbook Journal, and Watercolor Made Simple with Claud

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Pin Art / Map Pins

Pin Art is the name of an executive toy pin screen, which is a boxed surface made of a crowded collection of pins that are free to slide back and forth independently in a screen to generate a three-dimensional relief. Pin screens were earlier used as animation in films and were made of metal pins. Nowadays, pin art toys are usually made of plastic pins.

Map pins, also known as map tacks and map flags, are used to identify places on a map. Map pins usually helps in marking down your travels, observing business locations, plot customer locations and many others. Round-head map pins and numbered map pins are available in different colors and sizes. They are very easy to be found on stationery shops but usually you can get these map pins only in 100 or 200 series.

Map pins can be easily used with any type of wall map. You can even get bulletin board maps which are manufactured specifically for push pins. These maps also come with Martin Mount option that means that they can be easily hanged because of the foam core backing to accept map pins.

When considering the colors of the pins, always think about the background color of the map. The pin color should contrast nicely with the map. Also, be sure to plan in advance the number of map pins that might be required in one area of the map.

You may also use the pins to track the number of clients or customers you have in certain cities. The main problem comes when all the pins are in the cities and nothing are in the countryside. This is where map scale comes into the picture. Look for a map which has a big scale or has insets for the large cities where your map pins may tend to come together. In this way you can easily put the pins in the inset and observe an enhanced distribution pattern.

Map pins with the smaller head size can also be the solution for this problem.  That is why many people prefer buying the 200 series pins even though they are more costly. In fact, map pins aren’t just for maps. Many art galleries buy numbered pins to recognize artists work. Planners also use map pins on schematics for categorizing the key tasks in a project.

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