Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes: Flowers in Watercolour

Paint stunning watercolour flowers in just 30 minutes with over 30 quick and easy exercises for 6 x 4 pads plus 3 full-size projects.

Includes tracings for every project, making this the perfect watercolour book for beginners!

This guide will teach you how to paint watercolour flowers of different shapes, colours, and families using a variety of key techniques. In 5 chapters, you’ll find: 

• 35 exercises ideal for 6 x 4 watercolour pads that take just 30 minutes to complete
• How to work with watercolour
• How to use watercolour techniques for special effects
• How to master colour and tone
• How to paint flower form and detail
• How to paint watercolour flowers in context (vases, woodlands, etc.)
• 3 full-size painting projects combining all learned techniques and elements
• Tracings for each watercolour flower painting no drawing necessary!

 
Featuring poppies, magnolias, hydrangeas, lilies, tulips, roses, and many more, this is the ultimate workbook for beginner watercolour painters who are short on time!

Book Contents

Introduction 6
Basic painting equipment 8
Working with watercolour 10
Washes 12
Working wet in wet 14
Layering 16
Blending out 18
Using the white of the paper 20
Techniques 22
Masking 24
Cutting out 26
Negative painting 28
White flowers with shadows 30
Spattering & scribbling 32
Salt & wax resists 34
Colour & tone 36
Mixing greens 38
Mixing dark colours 40
Mixing shadow colours 42
Mixing yellows 44
Mixing autumn colours 46
Contrast & tone 48
Backlighting 50
Form & detail 52
Drawing & composing 54
Flower shapes: star 56
Flower shapes: bell 58
Flower shapes: cup 60
Flower shapes: cone 62
Complex flower shapes 64
Buds 66
Painting leaves 68
Leaf shapes 70
Seed heads 72
Seed heads: ‘Honesty’ 74
Flower markings: orchid 76
Flower markings: hellebore 78
Flowers in context 80
Flowers in a vase 82
Mixed border 84
Woodland with daffodils 86
Flowers in pots 88
Dog roses in a landscape 90
Pansies in a vase 92
Clematis on a trellis 94
Index 96
Templates 97