Watercolour Flower Painting Workshop

Watercolour Flower Painting Workshop
Author: Hazel Soan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2001-08-06
Genre: Botanical illustration
ISBN: 9780007121687

The aim of this book is to inspire amateur artists to create beautiful flower paintings in watercolour by developing their own style right from the start. With this in mind, the book contains plenty of instruction on essential watercolour techniques and methods, and includes the following key features: projects - practical projects, with a system of self-assessment to monitor progress; demonstrations - developing a painting step-by-step; exercises - additional exercises to put theory into practice; ideas - flowers with still life, in garden settings, close-up compositions, flowers in the landscape, flower portraits and studies; and inspiration - a wide selection of flower paintings to show different styles and techniques. The book features paintings by the author and a number of other well-known contemporary artists, including John Lidzey, Shirley Trevena and Ann Blockley. It adopts a workshop approach, with practical projects, exercises and step-by-step demos.

Flower Painting Through the Seasons

Flower Painting Through the Seasons
Author: Ann Blockley
Publisher: Collins
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Flowers in art
ISBN: 9780007156184

This title provides a year-long course in watercolour flower painting. It contains both step-by-step demonstrations and more challenging projects. The book is divided into monthly chapters, revealing that the quieter seasons of autumn and winter offer just as many flower painting possibilities as the busy spring and summer months. Each chapter offers one full step-by-step demonstration plus several projects - some simple, some more ambitious - relevant to the time of year.

Colorways: Watercolor Flowers

Colorways: Watercolor Flowers
Author: Bley Hack
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2018-12-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1633226131

Colorways: Watercolor Flowers teaches artists of all skill levels how to paint harmonious, vibrant, and colorful renditions of flora. Calling all aspiring artists! Grab your paints because it's time to explore key watercolor techniques, including washes, gradations, painting wet-into-wet, glazing, and understanding the color wheel to create harmony in your art. With Colorways: Watercolor Flowers, you will create vibrant and colorful floral paintings while mastering how to use color for maximum effect. You'll also learn where to find artistic inspiration, how to become a “visual collector,” and how to add fauna to your floral paintings. While step-by-step instructions are included for some flower varieties, most projects offer inspiration and tips that allow for personalization using mixed-media techniques, as opposed to a specific template to follow. You can learn to stamp, use tissue paper, create monograms, and collage using the gorgeous artwork and instructions in this book. Colorways is a new series from Walter Foster that teaches artists of all skill levels how to create innovative, inspired artwork full of color and imagination. Focusing on creating expressive pieces over realistic scenes, Colorways shows artists how to break the "rules" of color and let their imaginations and artwork soar to new heights. For more fun books in the Colorways series, also check out Acrylic Animals and Watercolor Animals.

Watercolor with Me in the Ocean

Watercolor with Me in the Ocean
Author: Dana Fox
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1624148581

5O No-Sketch Projects That Bring the Ocean to Life Dana Fox, author of Watercolor with Me: In the Forest and founder of Wonder Forest, provides fifty new marine-themed projects in this beginner-friendly watercolor guide. Known for her whimsical art style and straightforward instruction, Dana leads you through three major watercolor techniques: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and ink-and-wash. Best of all, there’s no sketching required, so you can focus on each painting method. Bring adorable sea creatures like octopuses and otters to life on high-quality art paper. Start simple with shading in a monochromatic orca, experiment with adding depth to color with a bright bobbing seahorse and practice stylizing your subject in a charming lighthouse scene. With inspired art and step-by-step instruction, it’s easy to pick up a paintbrush, break out your palette, and create something beautiful.

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.

Flower Painting in Watercolor

Flower Painting in Watercolor
Author: Charles Reid
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1979
Genre: Botanical illustration
ISBN:

This is a book on teaching you how to paint flowers with watercolor. It talks about materials, equipment, composition. direct painting, drybrush, using opaque, wash-over-wash, different types of flowers, lighting etc.--

Painting Close-Focus Flowers in Watercolour

Painting Close-Focus Flowers in Watercolour
Author: Ann Pember
Publisher:
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2001
Genre: Botanical illustration
ISBN: 9780713486735

This book shows you how to paint close-focus flowers in watercolour by providing easy-to-learn techniques for mingling colours and manipulating light, advice on designing your composition, choosing materials and more.

Floral Watercolour

Floral Watercolour
Author: Christin Stapff Mädchenkunst
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9786059192729

This book will teach you how to paint floral motifs with a loose look and an effortless hand. The well-known blogger and YouTuber Christin Stapff Mädchenkunst shows you, step by step, how to paint blossoms, flowers, leaves and wreaths--and also how to combine your art with hand lettering. Video tutorials on the various chapters will help you with the first flowing steps. You'll find lots of inspiration for your individual watercolor artworks in the book.

Flower Painting

Flower Painting
Author: Paul Riley
Publisher: David Porteous Editions*
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1990
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781870586108

Clear, step-by-step instructions give guidance on every aspect of flower painting from choice of materials to special techniques which will enable yo to portray the essence of your subject matter and all it glorious colour--Cover.

A-Z of Flower Portraits

A-Z of Flower Portraits
Author: Billy Showell
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1844484521

Billy Showell is a well-respected contemporary artist whose watercolour flower portraits have earned her the respect of watercolour artists all over the world. Worked to the same degree of accuracy as traditional botanical paintings, Billy's compositions are given a more contemporary twist, combining her unique eye for design with her love of flowers. In this book, 40 flower portraits are presented, arranged in alphabetical order, each one accompanied by small studies, details, step-by-step instructions and the colour mixes used to accomplish the finished work. At the start of the book there are useful sections on the materials and equipment needed and the main techniques used, including wet-into-wet, colour blending, lifting out, layering glazes, dry brushing and colour mixing, and at the end of the book Billy gives her own unique slant on composition and discusses the importance of creating a sketchbook. Whether you love to paint, or simply love flowers, this book will delight and inspire you.