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DIY Watercolor Flowers

DIY Watercolor Flowers

The Beginner's Guide to Flower Painting for Journal Pages, Handmade Stationery and More

$47.00

The Beginner’s Guide to Flower Painting for Journal Pages, Handmade Stationery and More

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ISBN: 9781446307359
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Publisher/Imprint: David & Charles
Published: 15 Oct 26
Format: Paperback / softback
Dimensions: 217 x 254 mm
Pages: 160

Description

Learn to paint beautiful watercolor flowers in simple steps with this free and easy approach to watercolor painting for beginners. Marie Boudon's beautifully presented creative course will give you a good grounding in this new-to-you medium and teach you all you need to know to get started with painting flowers in watercolor.

A beautifully illustrated guide to painting watercolour flowers for the absolute beginner, those looking for ways to decorate journal pages and create their own unique handmade gifts. Learn to paint beautiful watercolour flowers in simple steps with this free and easy approach to watercolour painting for beginners. Marie Boudon’s beautifully presented creative course will give you a good grounding in this new-to-you medium and teach you all you need to know to get started with painting flowers in watercolour. Find out about paper, brushes and paints, colour mixing, wet and dry techniques, blending and gradients, contrast and even how to digitise your work. Then learn to paint roses, peonies, carnations, dahlias, anemones, poppies, leaves, details and textures and how to bring all of these together into beautiful compositions which make lovely art pieces, journal pages, handmade stationery and greetings cards, inspirational quote frames, personalised gifts and more. AUTHOR: Marie Boudon is a completely self-taught artist and creative living in Paris, France. With an engineering background, she has built a program of online workshops under her own brand tribulationsdemarie. SELLING POINTS: . The craze for journaling has inspired a renewed interest in watercolour as a means to decorate journal pages – this book speaks to that audience and to the new wave of beginner painters inspired by the mindfulness movement. . This accessible technique makes watercolour painting achievable to everyone, and is presented in a beautiful package that will appeal to creatives of all kinds outside of the established art community.

Reviews

"[T]his content provides a DIY method for aspiring watercolor artists to get started, practice, and refine their skills. ... Given the popularity of hand-decorated bullet journals, print-on-demand websites where individuals can sell objects featuring their own original artwork, and the current cultural affinity for watercolor art, this book is likely to be popular in many communities." --Booklist

Author

Marie Boudon is a completely self-taught artist and creative living in Paris, France. With an engineering background, she has built a program of online workshops under her own brand tribulationsdemarie.

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