North Light's Big Book of Painting Watercolor Flowers


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North Light's Big Book of Painting Watercolor Flowers presents not only the best work from your favorite artists but their expert instruction as well. Everyone from curious beginners to established painters can learn something from these veteran artists: Jo Taylor, Adele Earnshaw, Susan D. Bourdet, Ann Pember, Jan Fabian Wallake, Charles Reid, Susanna Spann, Patrick Seslar. First, follow core instruction on basic techniques, color, shapes and composition. Then start painting flowers in a rich range of settings and styles. The variety in this book is sure to keep you inspired. With more than 25 step-by-step demonstrations and a tremendous breadth of instruction, this is the essential guide to painting flowers in watercolor. - Back cover.







Glorious Garden Flowers in Watercolor


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Paint brilliant floral watercolors with internationally acclaimed artist Susan Harrison-Tustain as she shares her unique approach to capturing the essence of natural settings. A must for those wishing to create art that resonates with beauty.




Painting Crystal and Flowers in Watercolor


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Mini-demos and instruction teach how to faithfully capture the beauty, detailed texture and glowing light and color of crystal and flowers.




Painting Watercolor Flowers That Glow


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A Celebration of Light Light has the power to make an ordinary flower extraordinary. Inside, Jan Kunz shares simple, step-by-step techniques for capturing that celebrated "glow" in watercolor. A classic approach to a timeless subject, this encore publication of Kunz's best-selling book covers a fabulous range of inspirations, from lilacs artfully arranged in a sterling vase to daisies skipping along a picket fence. Beautifully illustrated pages feature: 20 special floral painting techniques 6 paint-along demonstrations, complete with preliminary drawings a comparison chart of 21 pigments and their special uses for the flower painter coverage of everything from selecting materials and arranging flowers, to mixing glazes for radiant effects Kunz explains how composition, color theory and other important elements of painting apply to painting flowers, distilling years of experience into key techniques artists can take straight to their work for sparkling results. It's the perfect pick for artists who want to spend more time at the easel and less time reading about it.




Fill Your Watercolors with Nature’s Light


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Anyone can learn these simple and fun methods for producing outstanding watercolor landscapes and flowers. One of the reasons that Royland's first book (Fill Your Watercolors with Light & Color - over 65,000 copies sold) has been so popular is that his techniques make watercolor Fun and Successful for a great number of otherwise frustrated artists. Roland has a gift for simplifying the process of painting into a few readily understood steps. In this book, he expands the teaching of his pouring technique and goes into a bit of the underlying structure of a painting. He presents his unique way of teaching composition that (we are told) delights his workshop classes. He then presents his three-step process of painting a landscape - masking to preserve the lights, pouring on the atmosphere and spattering the textures. Next, he shows two great techniques for painting flowers, a subject that does not appear in his first book. Also included is a chapter of fun experimental techniques that readers are sure to enjoy and another chapter that answers some frequently asked questions.




Fill Your Watercolors with Nature's Light


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Create Vibrant Watercolor Paintings that Glow with Light! Ever wonder why landscape painting seems to be so complicated? So overburdened with techniques and "tricks" that you can't see the forest for the trees? Well, it doesn't have to be! Artist Roland Roycraft shows you how just a few amazingly easy techniques - masking, color pouring, wiping out color and spattering - can create dramatic, atmospheric landscapes and soft, impressionistic flowers full of light. Roycraft will guide you through a simplified system of composition, color application and self-evaluation that will have you producing better, brighter nature scenes than ever before. Anyone can learn these fun and easy methods! He'll also help you troubleshoot possible problems before they happen, take advantage of the accidents that do and ensure that each time you put your brush to paper, you'll produce a piece of art welcome on anyone's wall.




Basic Watercolor Answer Book


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Presented in an easy-to-reference question-and-answer format, the information in this guide offers clear solutions to basic watercolor dilemmas through illustrations, photographs and step-by-step demonstrations. New artists will also learn how to successfully deal with accidents and mistakes.




Watercolor in Motion


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It's the interplay between water and paint that makes this medium so exciting. It's no wonder, then, that wet-into-wet is one of the most popular methods for painting in watercolor. This unique book/DVD workshop shows you how to "go with the flow," moving watercolor across the page to create gorgeous paintings. Covers everything from selecting the best papers, paints and brushes, to achieving intense color passages, the illusion of depth and lively shadows. 10 exercises and 15 step-by-step demonstrations illustrate important lessons on shapes, complementary colors, masking fluid, glazing and more. Techniques are illustrated with Birgit O'Connor's bold and beautiful flowers, but are applicable to any subject. DVD shows key techniques in action - blending colors, creating hard and soft edges, and painting water drops - as well as troubleshooting common problems with washes. Watercolor has a reputation for being unpredictable. But the secret to success, as you'll learn here, is using the right amount of water, which lets you have more control ... and fun!




Flower Painting


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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.