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Botanical Art and Beyond
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  • Publisher: Search Press
  • Edition: BB Hardback
  • Publication: 16 February 2027
  • ISBN 13/EAN: 9781800923386
  • Stock: Not Yet Published
  • Size: 228x250 mm
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: £25.00
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Botanical Art and Beyond

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in Watercolour by Billy Showell

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Book Description

Astonishingly accurate, yet playfully contemporary: discover award-winning watercolour artist Billy Showell’s ‘botanicals with a twist’.

From repeating motifs to experimenting with alternative backgrounds, discover how to create your own exciting watercolour masterpieces, step by step.

In this inspiring, indispensable guide for both budding and experienced botanical artists, best-selling author Billy Showell reveals the materials, painting methods and compositional techniques she uses to create her stunningly unique flower portraits.

Discover:

  • Billy’s expert guidance on getting started: choose the right tools and materials, work from life and observe and draw your subjects accurately.
  • How to experiment with composition from playing with backgrounds and positioning to perspective and lighting.
  • 4 stunning step-by-step projects exploring Billy's favourite ways to play with composition, and featuring blowsy roses, striking sweet peas, a vibrant poppy with seedheads plus a gorgeous rhododendron.
  • Galleries of Billy’s award-winning paintings to inspire your own ideas.

  • New uses for your botanical paintings, including stationery, cards and more.

With numerous studies, close-up photographs and examples of Billy's exquisite paintings, this book is not only packed with invaluable advice and practical information but is also a sumptuous collection of Billy’s groundbreaking work.

Table of Contents

Introduction6

Part I: Gathering Your Materials8
Equipment10, Paint14

Part II: Playing with Composition16
Composition essentials18, Choosing your subjects24, Composing and the joy of the sketchbook26, Drawing for composition28, Rescaling an image34, Trace-back drawing88, Playing with and playing your design40, Geometry in Compoisition44, Colour in Composition50, Lighting54, Shawdows and Positioning56, Composition tips and advice58,

Part III: Painting Techniques62
Brushstrokes80, Watercolour techniques81

Part IV: Paints & Mixing Colours78
Choosing your colours80, Understanding Tone81, Mixing Colours82, My Order of Work84

Part V: The Projects86
Botanical Art with a Twist86, Botanical Still Life122, Botanical Designs150, Ethereal Backgrounds188

Part VI: Keeping Your Creativity in Motion210
Creating themes212, Making gifts and fun things with your paintings213, Tips for staying motivated214

Index215

About the Author

About Billy Showell

Billy Showell is an internationally renowned botanical painter, illustrator and tutor and is based in Kent in the UK. Her works are distinguishable by her striking compositions, and she has won several botanical awards as well as selling over 48,500 copies of her books to date.

Billy’s work is held in the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Hunt Institute (USA) and in the Shirley Sherwood Collection as well as in private collections worldwide.

Visit her website: www.billyshowell.com and her Instagram: @billy_showell

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