My Venice book is out. Published by SEARCH PRESS.

Edited by Katie Sparkes. Photographers - Roddy Paine, Gavin Sawyer and Debbie Patterson. Detailed step projects of Venetian scenes.
I have presented two TV projects from the book. Now out on DVD from Teaching Art and later in the year on TV - The Painting and Drawing Channel.

NEXT BOOK STARTING.
Commencing Tuesday 29th 2011. New work, new methods. First Joe Dowden Seach Press book was "Water in Watercolour", published 2001 and still in print. The new one will be a detailed study of techniques for painting water.

NEW ARTICLE COMING OUT IN ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE
Artists and Illustrators Magazine often features great watercolour painters, such as Rob Dudley, whose brilliant brightly lit paintings feature South Devon tidal waters. Forthcoming article is a step by step project painted in Derwent Inktense watercolour inks.

NEW ARTICLE COMING OUT IN PAINT MAGAZINE
The nightmare of perspective - a trouble shooting piece to sort a few problems brought in by a reader, and enlarging on sublte angles and changes in level.