Lessons For Painting Flowers

The follow-up book to Ai Nakamura's 'Five Simple Steps to Sketching Flowers with Watercolors', this book provides more detailed lessons to improve any aritist's flower watercolor skills. The eight lessons are carefully contructed to build the necessary watercolor skills one step at a time, by first starting with simple tasks such as flowers with few petals, and gradually leading up to more complex works with multiple flowers and colors.

Learn the craft of decorative painting with 19 featured flowers presented in meticulous detail, including full-size, ready-to-use shaded patterns.

Table of Contents Introduction About Watercolors Short History Types of Water Colors Different Techniques of Watercolor painting Flowers in Water Colors Comparison with Other Mediums Oil Paints Acrylic Paints Others Materials used for water color painting Material for drawing Tracing Paper Water colors Paper Pallet Brushes Masking fluid Containers Tissue Paper Board Masking Tape Hair Dryer Materials needed in this book for painting Primary and Secondary Colors Color Wheel and its significance Practice Activities Three tones Exercise#1 Shading Exercise#2 Exercise#3 Exercise#4 Exercise#5 Exercise#6 How to Draw Free hand drawing Tracing Flower Painting Lessons How to paint Lavenders How to paint a rose in water colors How to paint Tulips How to paint an Iris How to paint a Sunflower Conclusion Artist Bio Publisher Introduction It is not difficult! I guess this line will open the doors of hope for you. And I'm not just bragging. It sure is one of the most difficult mediums to paint with and that was exactly the challenge I accepted when I started my Arts education. I thought, how difficult can it really be? I have realized over the time that everything in this world is difficult only until you learn it. If you try, you do get a grasp of it sooner or later. One very important thing is that you find someone who can teach you, and can teach you well. Here I hope I will be able to transfer as much knowledge as I can in a possibly detailed manner. If you were in a class, I would be open to questions. But that is not the case in our situation, so I want to make sure that by the time you finish this book, you won't have any questions left. I am keeping the struggles in my mind, that I made just to learn this technique and how I wished I could get one person or a single book that could be my fairy god mother and teach me everything I needed to know in a wave of a wand. That didn't happen, of course. But I did learn and now that I know, I want to transfer my knowledge to you. Why is water color one of the difficult materials? Everybody has their own reasons; the only reason that I am going to tell you is that they are a bit hard to control. Don't worry! Don't be taken aback. I'm here to teach you. This book contains activities by which you will learn to control your color, brush strokes, and many other things. I assure you that you have made the best choice. You will not only learn to paint flowers and many other things that your heart desires because you will learn to use your brush and get familiar with different materials and techniques. I would like to wish you best of luck and hope that your, and my hard work will pay in the form of you being as good as me or even better.

Enjoy the meditative art of watercolor with simple supplies, forty colorful illustrated lessons, and easy step-by-step instructions! For a soothing boost of creativity and whimsy, try your hand at watercolor. With a few simple steps, anyone can discover their artistic side and achieve moments of peace and tranquility. Forty straightforward lessons promise fun and colorful results -- no pressure and no skill required. This simple painting medium produces colorful, modern paintings to adorn invitations, gifts, and walls. The forty lessons cover useful topics like: Painting on vacation Painting your pets Layering colors Mixing colors Painting flowers and plants The supplies are simple: a basic palette of watercolors, a selection of brushes, and nice thick paper will do the job. Your bright, whimsical art is guaranteed to bring color to any gray day. It's never too late to pick up a new hobby -- start painting your own beautiful cards and artwork today!

A second addition, also known as Ning Yeh's "Gold Edition" updates his original guide of step-by-step instructions for Chinese Brush Painting.

Step-by-step lessons to paint fifty flowers.

Introduction to Paint It Simply Casual Flowers

Colorways: Watercolor Flowers teaches artists of all skill levels how to paint harmonious, vibrant, and colorful renditions of flora. Calling all aspiring artists! Grab your paints because it's time to explore key watercolor techniques, including washes, gradations, painting wet-into-wet, glazing, and understanding the color wheel to create harmony in your art. With Colorways: Watercolor Flowers, you will create vibrant and colorful floral paintings while mastering how to use color for maximum effect. You'll also learn where to find artistic inspiration, how to become a “visual collector,” and how to add fauna to your floral paintings. While step-by-step instructions are included for some flower varieties, most projects offer inspiration and tips that allow for personalization using mixed-media techniques, as opposed to a specific template to follow. You can learn to stamp, use tissue paper, create monograms, and collage using the gorgeous artwork and instructions in this book. Colorways is a new series from Walter Foster that teaches artists of all skill levels how to create innovative, inspired artwork full of color and imagination. Focusing on creating expressive pieces over realistic scenes, Colorways shows artists how to break the "rules" of color and let their imaginations and artwork soar to new heights. For more fun books in the Colorways series, also check out Acrylic Animals and Watercolor Animals.