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Publisher: Search Press
Edition: BC Paperback
Publication: 05 February 2008
ISBN 13/EAN: 9781844482849
Stock: 50+
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Size: 216x292 mm
Illustrations: 120
Pages: 72
RRP Price: £8.99

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Ready to Paint: Watercolour Flowers

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by Wendy Tait

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Book Description

Pull-out outlines on tracing paper are provided for five beautiful paintings, along with full step-by-step instructions for how to bring the flowers to life with watercolours. A clear guide on how to transfer the outlines on to watercolour paper is included, along with a helpful section on what materials to use. Wendy Tait's book makes painting flowers simple and accessible, and offers guidance on how to develop your new painting skills.

Keen to paint. but your drawing skills let you down? This book provides pull-out tracings for five beautiful floral paintings, along with full step-by-step instructions for how to bring them to life with watercolour paint.
A clear guide on how to transfer the tracings to your watercolour paper is included, along with a helpful section on what materials to use.
Wendy Tait's new book makes painting flowers simple and accessible, and offers guidance on how you can develop your new painting skills.

All of the paintings in the book are provided as tracings in the centre pages for you to pull out and use to learn how to paint beautiful pictures with Wendy Tait.
Go straight into painting: no need to draw!
Five easy to follow demonstrations
Step-by-step photographs and clear instructions
Nine reusable tracings to pull out

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About the Author

About Wendy Tait

Wendy Tait was born in Derby and attended the Joseph Wright School of Art. As her four children grew up she began exhibiting both locally in the Midlands and further afield, always supported by her husband Harry. For many years, Wendy gave demonstrations and taught classes to art clubs and societies. Although she no longer teaches, she remains as busy as ever, enjoying writing and illustrating books and painting in several different media. Wendy has won various awards for her work, and has painted a set of stamps for the Government of Jersey depicting the four seasons.

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A Good Age

June 08

People often want to take up painting when they retire and have more time. Others start sooner, once their kids are grown and in school. The drawing part of painting can be hard for beginners enough of an obstacle so they give up or never get past painting by numbers.

My friends who paint have always had a natural ability. They drew as children. I dont have that at all. Now two new books promise to make watercolor painting easier for beginners by following what I call an old-but-new approach.

The Ready to Paint series from Search Press in England is designed so that novice painters can pick up a brush and create appealing paintings with easy-to-follow tracings. The tracings can be reused. The idea is that you gain confidence as your hand-eye coordination is trained, by following the tracings, while you have some pleasing results to motivate you to keep trying.

Watercolour Flowers by Wendy Tait has nine reusable tracings to pull out. Watercolour Landscapes by Terry Harrison has six reusable tracings to pull out. Both are to be published in June.

The artists explain how to compose a painting with simple instructions and tips. Both Tait and Harrison are authors as well as artists.