The Modern Flower Painter: A Guide to Creating Vibrant Botanical Portraits in Watercolour

Anna Mason's exceptional floral artwork has won awards from the Royal Horticultural Society, International Artist magazine and seen her elected to the prestigious Society of Botanical Artists. In this book, she shares her innovative watercolour technique so that you can paint flowers in her clean, crisp style. The book covers every aspect of painting modern botanical-style portraits of flowers, from tips on gathering your reference to Anna's six stage watercolour process. There are instructions on setting up your studio and how to produce the detailed drawings. Each of the six step-by-step projects is accompanied by an outline drawing, tonal notes and useful colour swatches so that you can compare the tone and hue of your mixes to Anna's own. This all builds into a fantastic guide that will inspire and challenge the experienced watercolour artist, while drawing in and reassuring the complete beginner. \*\* "Anna Mason's exceptional floral artwork has won awards from the Royal Horticultural Society, International Artist magazine and seen her elected to the prestigious Society of Botanical Artists. In this book, she shares her innovative watercolour technique so that you can paint flowers in her clean, crisp style. The book covers every aspect of painting modern botanical-style portraits of flowers, from tips on gathering your reference to Anna's six stage watercolour process. There are instructions on setting up your studio and how to produce the detailed drawings. Each of the six step-by-step projects is accompanied by an outline drawing, tonal notes and useful colour swatches so that you can compare the tone and hue of your mixes to Anna's own. This all builds into a fantastic guide that will inspire and challenge the experienced watercolour artist, while drawing in and reassuring the complete beginner."--Amazon.com Contents......Page 5 Reina......Page 1 About the Author......Page 7 Materials......Page 8 Introduction......Page 6 Reference material......Page 12 Drawing......Page 14 Painting Colour......Page 16 Learning to see......Page 17 Working with watercolour......Page 19 Painting Tone......Page 20 Painting hue......Page 22 Mixing hue......Page 24 Brush techniques......Page 27 Applying the paint......Page 28 Painting flowers......Page 31 The six stages of painting......Page 32 Flower portraits......Page 38 Clematis......Page 39 Viola......Page 42 Cosmos......Page 46 Tulips......Page 50 Oriental Poppy......Page 54 Dahlia......Page 60 Outline drawings......Page 65 Index......Page 67 Anna's clear teaching will give you confidence in painting beautiful watercolour flowers in a modern twist on the botanical style. From complete beginners to more experienced watercolourists, this book offers in-depth instruction on drawing and painting, plus dozens of inspirational floral artworks.