Drawing & Painting Flowers: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Beautiful Floral Artworks

Learn how to capture the beauty of nature in pencil, pen and watercolour with this inspiring guide from award-winning botanical artist Jill Winch. The first half of the book shows you how to capture the shape, form and texture of a wide range of flowers and their leaves in pencil and in pen and wash. The second part shows how to work in watercolour, the medium of choice for most botanical artists, to create exquisite colour artworks.

Drawing and Painting Flowers is packed with examples and exercises across the full floral range, from simple structures, such as tulips, to more complex configurations, such as sunflowers, and compositions involving groups of flowers.

It also gives advice on practical considerations such as how best to position flowers when drawing or painting, how to prevent them wilting and how to use a microscope to understand their structure.

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Drawing & Painting Flowers: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Beautiful Floral Artworks

Learn how to capture the beauty of nature in pencil, pen and watercolour with this inspiring guide from award-winning botanical artist Jill Winch. The first half of the book shows you how to capture the shape, form and texture of a wide range of flowers and their leaves in pencil and in pen and wash. The second part shows how to work in watercolour, the medium of choice for most botanical artists, to create exquisite colour artworks.

Drawing and Painting Flowers is packed with examples and exercises across the full floral range, from simple structures, such as tulips, to more complex configurations, such as sunflowers, and compositions involving groups of flowers.

It also gives advice on practical considerations such as how best to position flowers when drawing or painting, how to prevent them wilting and how to use a microscope to understand their structure.

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Drawing & Painting Flowers: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Beautiful Floral Artworks

Drawing & Painting Flowers: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Beautiful Floral Artworks

by Jill Winch
Drawing & Painting Flowers: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Beautiful Floral Artworks

Drawing & Painting Flowers: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Beautiful Floral Artworks

by Jill Winch

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Learn how to capture the beauty of nature in pencil, pen and watercolour with this inspiring guide from award-winning botanical artist Jill Winch. The first half of the book shows you how to capture the shape, form and texture of a wide range of flowers and their leaves in pencil and in pen and wash. The second part shows how to work in watercolour, the medium of choice for most botanical artists, to create exquisite colour artworks.

Drawing and Painting Flowers is packed with examples and exercises across the full floral range, from simple structures, such as tulips, to more complex configurations, such as sunflowers, and compositions involving groups of flowers.

It also gives advice on practical considerations such as how best to position flowers when drawing or painting, how to prevent them wilting and how to use a microscope to understand their structure.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781398810068
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Publication date: 10/20/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 32 MB
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About the Author

Jill Winch is a member of the Society of Botanical Artists and exhibits at their annual exhibition in London. She teaches botanical art at her garden studio in Hertfordshire as well as other locations in Ireland and Italy. Her approach is to encourage all levels of ability, from complete beginners through to exhibiting artists. In 2012 Jill won the Daler Rowney Choice Award for her painting of the Medinilla magnifica.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Materials and Equipment 8

Chapter 1 First Stages 24

Chapter 2 Flowers Step-by-Step 46

Chapter 3 Drawing Leaves 84

Chapter 4 Composing Your Drawing 104

Chapter 5 Introducing Watercolor 124

Chapter 6 Painting Leaves 138

Chapter 7 Plant Studies 154

Chapter 8 Different Painting Techniques 186

Chapter 9 Composition 212

Index 224

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