Say 'The Mediterranean' and you're immediately transported to a world of glamour, exotic locations and popular holiday destinations.
Geoff Kersey takes you on a tour that includes the island of Santorini, a classic beach scene, a quiet street in Nauplia in Greece, the harbour at Amalfi and an isolated farm in the Tuscan hills. As is usual with this series, each scene comes with a pre-drawn tracing and comprehensive step-by-step instructions so that you can have the vacation of a lifetime without even leaving your armchair.
In the DVDs Geoff paints two of the pictures from the book in full, from start to finish. The first covers the Tuscan hill farm, for which the book has a full step-by-step demonstration and the second shows the frontispiece of a terrace view over Taormina in Sicily, for which there is a tracing but no demonstration.
Geoff's warm and confident approach gets your attention from the start and he is patient and thorough in his explanations. He tells you both what he is doing and why he is doing it at all stages, demonstrating techniques such as the use of masking fluid, wet-in-wet, graduated washes and the all-important colour mixing.
Whatever weather the summer brings, you can rely on Geoff to provide sunshine all the way!
