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- Don't have time to stop and smell the roses? That's ok; paint
them instead!
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- Author/artist Sharon Hinckley offer instruction that makes
it fun and easy to create beautiful watercolor daisies, hydrangeas,
roses, lilies, poppies, & more! All your favorite blooms
are found within the covers of this colorful paper garden.
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- What's more, you'll find everything you need to get busy
painting right away--from basic exercises in choosing colors
and planning a composition to techniques for painting leaves,
backgrounds, arrangements, and outdoor scenes. It's all explained
in simple language with hands-on exercises. The demos are simple,
but still provide challenge for more experienced artists who
may not have tried this type of painting.
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- WATERCOLOR
BASICS: Painting Flowers by world renowned artist Sharon
Hinkley is 128 pages of bright, beautiful examples of watercolor
at its best. It is divided into five sections:
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- 1. Basic Materials (Color, Brushes, Setting Up, Easy
Tips for Better Painting)
2. Leaves and Backgrounds (Mixing Greens, Leaf Soup, Basic
Leaf Shapes, Backgrounds, Leaf-Painting Excercises)
3. Individual Flowers (instruction on fourteen popular
flowers, divided into these categories: Radiating Flowers, Puffy
Flowers, Tropical Flowers, Popular Garden Flowers)
4. Painting Flower Arrangements (several still life examples)
5. Painting Outdoors (Five beautiful segments on garden
flowers)
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- Publisher: North Light Books
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