Painter's Quick Reference - Flowers & Blooms

Painter's Quick Reference - Flowers & Blooms
Author: North Light Books
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-09-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781581807615

Offers advice on how to paint more than fifty popular garden flowers, wildflowers, and exotic flowers, discussing watercolor, acrylics, and oils, as well as a variety of styles and techniques within each medium.

Painter's Quick Reference

Painter's Quick Reference
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2005
Genre: Flowers in art
ISBN: 9781581807608

Offers advice on how to paint more than fifty popular garden flowers, wildflowers, and exotic flowers, discussing watercolor, acrylics, and oils, as well as a variety of styles and techniques within each medium.

Everyday Watercolor Flowers

Everyday Watercolor Flowers
Author: Jenna Rainey
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0399582223

Author of Everyday Watercolor and Instagram darling Jenna Rainey presents a beautiful step-by-step guide to painting botanicals from lilies to daffodils in a wide variety of styles. Artist Jenna Rainey shares easy-to-follow ways to paint a wide range of botanicals, all in her fresh, modern style that appeals to the next generation of watercolor artists and creatives, from beginners to hobbyists. With gorgeously illustrated instructions for both loose and realistic watercolor depictions of more than 25 flowers, leaves, and plants, organized by form and shape, Everyday Watercolor Flowers is every nature-lover's answer to capturing that beauty on paper.

Birds, Bees & Blossoms

Birds, Bees & Blossoms
Author: Harriet de Winton
Publisher: Ilex Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1781578494

In her second book, botanical artist Harriet de Winton shows you how to paint modern watercolour artworks to treasure and share. Picking up where New Botanical Painting left off, this books aims to expand readers' repertoires into fauna as well as flora, with easy-to-follow instructions for a variety of difficulty levels. Through more than 30 step-by-step projects, you'll discover how to paint beautiful butterflies, bumblebees, birds and botanicals from around the world. In the final chapter, you'll find a guide to composing stunning patterns and scenes with your own botanical watercolour creations. Use your new skills to make art for your wall, unique cards, invitations, or simply paint for pleasure. Projects include: Bengal Tiger Chilean Flamingo Prickly Pear Zebra Bumblebee Garden Tiger Moth Peacock White-tailed Deer Polar Bear Arctic Poppy And many more!

Painting Florals with Gouache

Painting Florals with Gouache
Author: Vidhi Khandelwal
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1645671291

Learn the Art of Gouache with Easy-to-Paint, Stunning Floral Designs Let your creativity bloom with this inspiring step-by-step guide to painting lush roses, delicate daisies, blossoming cacti and more. Gouache makes it easy to create rich, bright colors for an impressive impact in just a few strokes. This forgiving medium is great for beginners, as well as watercolor artists looking for a bold, new way to create stunning artwork that pops. Vidhi Khandelwal, founder of The Ink Bucket art and stationery brand, guides you each step of the way through simple techniques to recreate her signature florals. Use your new skills to begin a daily art habit, create stunning compositions to brighten up your home and add a personal touch to homemade cards and gifts. With a trove of traceable flower sketches right in the book, you can focus on your painting journey without worrying about how to draw every line. Along with the essential strokes, you’ll learn simple shading methods for realistic petals, and lovely layering techniques to add fullness and texture in each blossom. Bring your project to life with fun details like veined leaves and colorful backgrounds, and even venture into floral hand lettering. Whether you’re looking to boost your painting skills or enjoy a relaxing new hobby, this book provides a refreshing creative escape.

Everyday Watercolor

Everyday Watercolor
Author: Jenna Rainey
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0399579737

A contemporary paint-every-day watercolor guide that explores foundational strokes and patterns and then builds new skills upon the foundations over the course of 30 days to create finished pieces. This beautifully illustrated and inspiring guided watercolor-a-day book is perfect for beginning watercolor artists, artists who want to improve their watercolor skills, and visual creatives. From strokes to shapes, this book covers the basics and helps painters gain confidence in themselves along with inspiration to develop their own style over the course of 30 days. Featuring colorful contemporary art from Mon Voir design agency founder and Instagram trendsetter Jenna Rainey, this book's fresh perspective paints watercolor in a whole new light.

Painting Vibrant Flowers in Watercolor

Painting Vibrant Flowers in Watercolor
Author: Soon Y. Warren
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014-03-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440336237

Paint flowers with feeling! You can paint watercolors that capture the beauty and personality of roses, peonies, zinnias and many more brilliant blooms--and achieve color more vivid than you ever dreamed possible with watercolor. In this expanded edition of Soon Y. Warren's best-selling book, she will help you: • Capture the unique shapes, textures, details--and temperaments--of magnolias, hibiscus, sunflowers, bougainvillea, gladiolus, dahlias, water lilies and more. • Use watercolor to duplicate and enhance the floral colors you see in nature, from subtle to saturated. • Create dramatic compositions that excite your viewers. • Complement your floral subjects with luscious surrounding textures (antique copper, smooth glass, rich fabric) and flattering backgrounds. • Learn fun and easy techniques for underpainting, mingling and texturing with 23 step-by-step demonstrations. Don't be a shrinking violet--express yourself with bold watercolor florals that have as much personality as you do!

The Flower Painter's Essential Handbook

The Flower Painter's Essential Handbook
Author: Jill Bays
Publisher: David and Charles
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2006-03-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0715335359

Help your artistic talent bloom by capturing the beauty of flowers with your brushstrokes from realistic close-ups to impressionistic landscapes. From Agapanthus to Water Lily, this unique artist’s reference provides easy-to-follow, plant-specific information on how to paint fifty of today’s most popular flowers. • Learn to draw each basic flower shape and then paint a single detailed bloom • Gain full, practical guidance for painting each flower through clear illustrations, step-by-step instruction, and the essential color palette • Refer to Jill’s beautiful finished paintings for further inspiration • Use the indispensable introduction to discover basic flower painting materials, techniques and color considerations The must-have practical reference that no flower painter can be without!

Expressive Flower Painting

Expressive Flower Painting
Author: Lynn Whipple
Publisher:
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2017-08-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1631593048

In Expressive Flower Painting, artist Lynn Whipple presents a range of creative painting exercises that help beginners develop vibrant nature paintings.

Paint Watercolor Flowers

Paint Watercolor Flowers
Author: Birgit O'Connor
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2018-06-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440349967

You can paint beautiful blooms, step by step! Sunflowers, orchids, daffodils, lilies...your brush can bring these and more to life with Paint Watercolor Flowers. Master watercolorist Birgit O'Connor guides you every step of the way, from selecting essential watercolor supplies, to practicing basic painting techniques, to capturing the unique details of a variety of flowers, to showing them off in striking, color-rich compositions. Learn how to paint nine different flowers, with each demonstration covering important concepts you need for successful results. Friendly, easy-to-follow instructions make flower painting fun and doable for any artist, whether you are new to the medium or simply want to try a subject you haven't painted before. • Detailed instruction on color, value, creating shadows, composition and more • 3 negative painting demonstrations • 9 start-to-finish flower painting demonstrations exploring topics such as creating backgrounds, layering color, values in white flowers, values in colored flowers and much more Learn to play with gorgeous color and water effects, expressing yourself with the unparalleled beauty of nature's bouquet.