Don't have time to stop and smell the roses? That's ok; paint them instead!
 
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.
 
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.
 
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:
 
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)
 
Publisher: North Light Books

 

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