Watercolour Flower Portraits Review & GIVEAWAY

Develop your watercolour flower painting skills! Due to popular demand Watercolour Flower Portraits by Billy Showell has been reprinted. This new edition has refreshed content.  Billy is a well known artist and tutor based in the UK. She has 4 best-selling botanical watercolor books to her name, this one included. Billy helps you get the right tools, learn the necessary skills and acquire practice. The first half of her book has useful sections on - what you need, drawing, colour mixing, techniques, light & shade, white flowers, painting flowers, leaves and stems in detail, and composition. These fundamentals are covered in detail with easy-to-read text and large color photographs. The second half of her book features 4 stunning, step-by-step watercolour projects. The flowers selected for study are the orchid, lily, rose and delphinium. These tutorials are all accompanied by small studies, details, step-by-step instructions and the colour mixes used to accomplish the finished work. She takes us inside her creative process and shows us how to paint realistic botanicals every step of the way. You'll find inspiration, instruction, and tips and on every page! The complete table of contents is listed below. Publisher Search Press released the 128 page paperback on March 2, 2021. An electronic version is available. Get your copy below!

Contents

Introduction

What you need

Drawing

Color

Techniques

Light & shade

White flowers

Painting flowers in detail

Painting leaves in detail

Painting stems in detail

Composition

Projects

Slipper Orchid

Green Goddess Lily

Roses

Delphinium

Index

Examples of Billy's original artwork is found throughout, like these striking Bird of Paradise flowers. 

Painting flowers in detail, pages 42 - 47.

The Slipper Orchid project, pages 68 - 85.

Here's a useful tip from page 8. 

Billy stores her paint tubes in a plastic food container and uses its lid for a palette.

Painting leaves in detail, pages 48 - 55.

Watercolour Flower Portraits ISBN-13 : 978-1782219613 is available worldwide at Search Press. Search Press is an independent, multi award-winning, family owned art and craft book publisher. Check out their unique catalog at Search Press. Search Press has generously offered to giveaway a copy! One winner will be selected at random. Open until June 17, 2021. Canada & USA only. Good luck!

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Previously published with the above cover.