The Art of Watercolor Flowers for Beginners: Easy Step-by-Step Techniques with 50 Projects

Learn how to paint beautiful botanicals in watercolour, with over 50 step-by-step projects! Popular Instagrammer and artist Jeannie Dickson teaches you how to capture the flowering beauty of the world around us in captivating watercolour. Special features: • Perfect for beginners! Whether you are new to watercolour or new to botanicals, everything you need to get started is here, including easy-to-follow instructions for 14 watercolour techniques, as well as templates for many of the flower tutorials. • The ultimate reference: You’ll find step-by-step visual tutorials for how to paint 40 different botanicals, from greenery like ferns and pine branches to flowering lovelies like peonies, poppies, hollyhocks, hydrangeas, and sunflowers. • Put it all together! In addition to the specific floral tutorials, there are 11 step-by-step projects that teach you how to create pleasing compositions from what you’ve learned, whether it’s a still life painting, a floral frame, or your own original thank you card. • Expert instruction! Jeannie Dickson is the author of Hello, Watercolor! and her popular Instagram page (@JeannieDicksonDesigns) showcases her watercolour designs, featuring florals and hand lettering. Author Jeannie Dickson starts out by laying down a firm foundation with chapters on watercolour supplies, water control, brushwork basics, and watercolor techniques, including wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and different ways to create visual texture. There is a chapter on color theory and color mixing, then four chapters of botanical tutorials, organized by their function in a composition, much like a florist would use them in a bouquet: greenery, focal flowers, accent flowers, and textural elements. Every tutorial includes the colour palette and the specific brushes used, as well as detailed step-by-step photos and instructions that make it easy for you to follow along. Many of the tutorials also include templates, so no drawing is required! In the final chapter, Jeannie Dickson brings it all together, teaching you how weave the different florals together to compose your own botanical painting, with 11 projects featuring bouquets, wreaths, garden scenes, and more.