Paint flowers with feeling! You can paint watercolours that capture the beauty and personality of roses, peonies, zinnias and many more brilliant blooms--and achieve colour more vivid than you ever dreamed possible with watercolour. In this expanded edition of Soon Y. Warren's best-selling book, she will help you: Capture the unique shapes, textures, details--and temperaments--of magnolias, hibiscus, sunflowers, bougainvillea, gladiolus, dahlias, water lilies and more. Use watercolour to duplicate and enhance the floral colours you see in nature, from subtle to saturated. Create dramatic compositions that excite your viewers. Complement your floral subjects with luscious surrounding textures (antique copper, smooth glass, rich fabric) and flattering backgrounds. Learn fun and easy techniques for underpainting, mingling and texturing with 23 step-by-step demonstrations. Don't be a shrinking violet--express yourself with bold watercolour florals that have as much personality as you do! | The vibrancy and soul in Soon Y. Warren's paintings has more and more artists are flocking to her workshops. Now updated and revised with two all-new step-by-step painting demonstrations, this new in paperback version of the popular Vibrant Flowers in Watercolour gives budding artists worldwide the opportunity to study with the master. Readers will learn to create flower paintings filled with lustre and with such realism they pop off the page.
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? 25 full step-by-step demonstrations (2 all new full length demonstrations)
? Lessons on capturing shapes textures, details and temperaments
? Links to online bonus features | Don't be a shrinking violet--express yourself with bold watercolour florals that have as much personality as you do!