Paint & Frame: Botanical Painting: Review & GIVEAWAY

Display your creativity! Paint & Frame: Botanical Painting: Nearly 20 Inspired Projects to Paint and Frame Instantly by Sara Boccaccini Meadows. Textile designer and illustrator Boccaccini Meadows shows you how to create charming mini watercolors in her coveted style. This kit includes a book, watercolor paper and frames. The full-color instruction book has 17 step-by-step watercolor projects. I have listed them all in the Contents below. I have also included a demo video of the Miniature Cacti project from page 32. In it we get a glimpse of Boccaccini Meadows working on an illustration from beginning to end, including painting the frame. Note the watercolor paper and frame in the video. They are the same ones included in the kit. You get five sheets of creamy 4 x 6" watercolor paper and three white 6 x 7" frames. At the very end of this post I have included the Coneflowers project from pages 24 - 27. It's an example of how well all of the projects are arranged. You can see that Boccaccini Meadows includes a specific list of the materials she uses. You may do the same or choose your own. Boccaccini Meadows makes painting very approachable. With her book I feel like I too can create lovely one-of-a-kind pieces and display them. This 96 page paperback was released July 3, 2018 from Race Point Publishing. Get your copy below!

CONTENTS

Introduction

Tools

Techniques

Playing with Color

Botanical Gardens
Prickly Pear Cactus
Ditzy Wildflowers
Coneflowers
Summer Floral Pattern
Miniature Cacti
Butterflies

The Beach
Rocks
Shells
Fish
Stripes

Woodland
Mushrooms
Birds
Ferns, Moss & Lichen

My Neighborhood
Cottage
Trees
Thistles
Stoop Plants

And Finally

Decorating the Frames

About the Author

Check out this excellent demo video by Boccaccini Meadows and see how lovely these handcrafted paintings can be!

Pages 38 - 39 of the Butterflies project.

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Coneflowers 

Materials

Princeton size 2 round watercolor brush 

Watercolor pan 

Holbein Acryla Pale Pink gouache 

Holbein Acryla Beige gouache 

Princeton size 0 round watercolor brush 

Fine Line Black Sharpie 

Sakura Pigma Micron Pen (Size 02) 

Winsor & Newton Perylene Green watercolor paint

PAINTING INSPIRATION

These flowers always amaze me! They draw me in when I start to see them bloom in the summertime. I love the wide range of colors they come in and the repetitive patterns they make, especially when I see a clump of them from above.

1. Use the size 2 round brush and a watereddown sepia reddish-brown color from the watercolor pan to begin painting the 'noses' of the coneflowers. I paint these as triangles with rounded edges and dot them sparsely around the page.

2. Now it’s time to paint the pretty petals onto some of the flowers. Use the Pale Pink gouache and the size 2 round brush to create thin umbrella-like petals. I like to vary the color of my flowers, so I only use the pink for a few of them.

3. Finish the remaining flowers using the Beige gouache. Set the painting aside to dry for approximately 10 minutes.

4. Using the size 0 round brush, load it with red paint from your pan. Paint little dots on the sepia 'nose' that you painted in step 1. Set the painting aside to dry completely, approximately 10 to 15 minutes. Using the black fine line Sharpie, draw a dotted line between the 'nose' of the flower and the petals.

5. Next, use the Micron pen to add line details to the petals; a single line down the center of each petal adds nice dimension.

6. Finally, use the Perylene Green paint to add the stem and leaves and join the flowers together into a bouquet. Set the painting aside to dry completely, approximately 10 to 15 minutes. Enjoy your painting!