Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes: Flowers in Watercolour
Search Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78221-519-6 (ISBN)
Paint stunning watercolour flowers in just 30 minutes with over 30 quick and easy exercises for 6 x 4 pads – plus 3 full-size projects.
Includes tracings for every project, making this the perfect watercolour book for beginners!
This guide will teach you how to paint watercolour flowers of different shapes, colours, and families using a variety of key techniques. In 5 chapters, you’ll find:
35 exercises ideal for 6 x 4 watercolour pads that take just 30 minutes to complete
How to work with watercolour
How to use watercolour techniques for special effects
How to master colour and tone
How to paint flower form and detail
How to paint watercolour flowers in context (vases, woodlands, etc.)
3 full-size painting projects combining all learned techniques and elements
Tracings for each watercolour flower painting – no drawing necessary!
Featuring poppies, magnolias, hydrangeas, lilies, tulips, roses, and many more, this is the ultimate workbook for beginner watercolour painters who are short on time!
Ann is a professional watercolour artist and tutor. She started her working life as a French teacher having gained a degree in European Studies at UEA and a PGCE from Southampton University. She had always had a passion for drawing and painting and in 1990, with her children in Secondary school, she took up a study of watercolour painting and was soon selling her work and designs for greetings cards and mug wraps. She became a member of the Society of Floral Painters with whom she exhibited annually. Ann has demonstrated for art societies around the country, has held workshops in her garden studio at home and run painting holidays. She regularly designs greetings cards for Medici cards. Ann has written several articles for Leisure Painter and in 2014 produced a watercolour techniques video. She now continues to share her skills with watercolour demonstrations on her website blog, on social media and YouTube. Ann’s love of painting has always gone hand in hand with a love of flowers and gardening, each activity complementing the other. Ann has three grown up children and lives in Nottinghamshire with her husband. For more information please visit www.annmortimerart.com
Introduction 6
Basic painting equipment 8
Working with watercolour 10
Washes 12
Working wet in wet 14
Layering 16
Blending out 18
Using the white of the paper 20
Techniques 22
Masking 24
Cutting out 26
Negative painting 28
White flowers with shadows 30
Spattering & scribbling 32
Salt & wax resists 34
Colour & tone 36
Mixing greens 38
Mixing dark colours 40
Mixing shadow colours 42
Mixing yellows 44
Mixing autumn colours 46
Contrast & tone 48
Backlighting 50
Form & detail 52
Drawing & composing 54
Flower shapes: star 56
Flower shapes: bell 58
Flower shapes: cup 60
Flower shapes: cone 62
Complex flower shapes 64
Buds 66
Painting leaves 68
Leaf shapes 70
Seed heads 72
Seed heads: ‘Honesty’ 74
Flower markings: orchid 76
Flower markings: hellebore 78
Flowers in context 80
Flowers in a vase 82
Mixed border 84
Woodland with daffodils 86
Flowers in pots 88
Dog roses in a landscape 90
Pansies in a vase 92
Clematis on a trellis 94
Index 96
Templates 97
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.08.2017 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes |
| Zusatzinfo | 500 Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | Tunbridge Wells |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 280 mm |
| Gewicht | 504 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Malen / Zeichnen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78221-519-0 / 1782215190 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78221-519-6 / 9781782215196 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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