This best-selling book by popular TV artist Alwyn Crawshaw is now reissued by popular demand in a new paperback edition at a very competitive price. In The Half-Hour Painter Alwyn teaches the techniques and skills that are required to paint a successful landscape in 30 minutes. He shows how to observe and paint from nature when time is limited by working through a number of landscape paintings in various mediums - watercolour, oils and pencil. Alwyn believes that imposing a time limit on your painting helps you to learn to paint a picture as a whole - in a broad statement - and prevents too much fussing on detail. He maintains that half-hour painting exercises provide a valuable discipline for artists of all levels and not just for beginners.