Atmospheric Buildings in Watercolour

Capture your world in wonderful watercolor with guidance from master artist Nicholas Poullis.

’Nicholas’s paintings exude a wonderfully fresh and vibrant feel, with some innovative and daring compositions [...] He is an artist at the peak of his creative powers.’ David Curtis ROI RSMA

Join an inspiring workshop with Nicholas Poullis and learn to capture buildings in watercolor. Perfect for beginning to intermediate artists who wish to sharpen their stills in watercolor, this book gives some sample projects and all the steps and tips to create your own masterpiece. In this book, master artist Nicholas Poullis shares his approach, techniques and experience to help the budding artist produce paintings that are at once accurate and inspiring.

Aimed at beginner artists and intermediate-level artists looking to improve their watercolor techniques, this book will also appeal to more advanced artists or professional artists who are fans of Nicholas Poullis and are interested to learn how he works.

Wide-ranging and comprehensive, each chapter focuses on a particular element of watercolour practice. The first covers fundamentals - the materials you need and attitude to adopt - while later chapters look at selecting a subject, composition, perspective and drawing tips, the order of painting and more.

Ideas for how the reader can build a repertoire and improve their skills are scattered throughout, alongside five step-by-step projects for the reader. Dozens of Nicholas’ inspirational artworks are also included, providing a deep well of inspiration, and showcasing what you can build towards with this book.

Endorsements from leading artists:
＂Watercolour painting is like playing a single beautiful instrument. Nicholas has tuned his instrument to express the beauty of nature to a rare degree. ’Leave out but never add’ was the cry of John Sell Cotman, one of Britain’s finest watercolourists, and this is exemplified in Nicholas’s work.＂ Professor Ken Howard OBE Royal Academician

Nicholas Poullis, also known as Le Peintre de Pézenas (The Painter of Pézenas), paints watercolours directly from life with a distinct and personal style. Originally from England, in 2000, he moved near Pézenas, in Southern France, where he has become established.

Born 1974, Nicholas Poullis has been a professional artist since leaving the University of East Anglia gaining a BA(Hons) illustration. He is a previous Baker Tilly Award winner at the Royal Watercolour Society, where he has often shown his work. He has exhibited in a number of the London Societies including the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Sunday Times Watercolour competition and the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.

Always painting on site has meant that he has travelled extensively throughout Europe while exploring subject matter. He produced work on the route and cyclists of the Tour de France and also on the theme of places of cultural significance across the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and southern France.

Nicholas has work included in the collections of St Johns College, Cambridge University, Baker Tilly Chartered accountants, senior officers of the Royal Air Force, The Royal Automobile Club, the Office de Tourisme of Pezenas and many private collections. He has been a contributing author to the leading practical art magazine, The Artist, for over fifteen years, and has contributed to a number of publications.

Nicholas has held major exhibitions that have attracted thousands of visitors at the l’Hôtel des Barons de Lacoste, the Mirondela dels Arts and had solo exhibition at the RAC in Pall Mall.