Botanical Painting with Gouache: A Step-By-Step Guide

A practical guide to using gouache in botanical painting, by a leading botanical painter. Gouache is an opaque water-based medium, often called body colour, that produces crisp and vibrant paintings, and is becoming increasingly popular in botanical painting. Leading botanical painter, Simon Williams, specializes in painting in gouache and this is his first book. Botanical Painting in Gouache is full of practical advice on all aspects of using the exciting medium of gouache and contains many step-by-step demonstration paintings. In addition to the sumptuous flower paintings there are also sections on painting butterflies, birds and exotic and unusual plants from the rainforest. Title Contents Foreword Introduction Materials and Tools Paint Tools Papers and board Techniques Brush angles Handling colour Highlights Step-by-Step Projects Tulipa ‘Groenland’ Iris ‘Andalou’ Rosa ‘Birthday Girl’ Mixed-fruit study: Pink Lady apples, Rocha pear and figs Paphiopedilum orchid Dahlia ‘Bishop of Llandaff’ Buddleja davidii with peacock butterflies Painting in Situ: Plants from the Southern Hemisphere Bromeliads Plant hunting in Borneo In search of the ant house plant Suppliers and useful addresses Further reading Index Acknowledgements Copyright