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Watercolour Flowers for the Absolute Beginner
"True to its title, this is a complete course in painting watercolor flowers for anyone who is inspired or curious about giving it a try, but who may be intimidated by a lack of experience or skill" - BOOKLIST
Packed easy-to-follow techniques, quick exercises and 20 outlines – so there’s no need to draw anything. From the bestselling Absolute Beginner Art series.
Expert artist and teacher Fiona Peart helps you to take your first steps with watercolor, showing you step-by-step how to produce modern, lively and colorful artworks using this exciting medium. Build the essential skills you need to paint a range of gorgeous flowers, then move on to find out how to add depth, soft backgrounds, light and texture to your artwork.
• Easy-to-follow techniques
• 21 outlines included – no drawing skills required!
• 6 varied projects in simple steps
• Includes a wealth of finished paintings to provide ideas and inspiration
New in the best-selling Absolute Beginner series, this book is suitable for absolutely everybody who wants to take their painting skills further and become an accomplished flower artist.
Packed easy-to-follow techniques, quick exercises and 20 outlines – so there’s no need to draw anything. From the bestselling Absolute Beginner Art series.
Expert artist and teacher Fiona Peart helps you to take your first steps with watercolor, showing you step-by-step how to produce modern, lively and colorful artworks using this exciting medium. Build the essential skills you need to paint a range of gorgeous flowers, then move on to find out how to add depth, soft backgrounds, light and texture to your artwork.
• Easy-to-follow techniques
• 21 outlines included – no drawing skills required!
• 6 varied projects in simple steps
• Includes a wealth of finished paintings to provide ideas and inspiration
New in the best-selling Absolute Beginner series, this book is suitable for absolutely everybody who wants to take their painting skills further and become an accomplished flower artist.
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144 pages, Paperback
Published May 30, 2023
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September 6, 2025
Fiona used a variety of different tools for her paintings that I had not yet tried including: "pointer brushes", Q-tips (for berries and seedheads), a palette knife, sharpened sticks and Yupo synthetic paper, which allows the watercolors to flow differently than cotton or wood-pulp paper.
She provided a multitude of outlines for tracing various flowers on to your paper to try her projects. An outline as well as in depth directions are given for painting: daffodils in a pitcher, sweet mock orange, magnolias, camellias, and blue hydrangea.
Overall, I enjoyed her slightly loose interpretations of the flowers and her techniques for painting. I wish she had provided an outline and directions for her lovely yellow water lily painting.
She provided a multitude of outlines for tracing various flowers on to your paper to try her projects. An outline as well as in depth directions are given for painting: daffodils in a pitcher, sweet mock orange, magnolias, camellias, and blue hydrangea.
Overall, I enjoyed her slightly loose interpretations of the flowers and her techniques for painting. I wish she had provided an outline and directions for her lovely yellow water lily painting.
July 13, 2023
Super-useful!! This book assumes you know nothing, and starts with how to best hold the brush, how to dilute your paints for the wash you want, etc, etc. It's the only one I've found so far that starts at the very beginning, for those of us without previous art education.
June 28, 2023
It has beautiful pictures and easy to understand instructions. I found it too technical for me.
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