Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers Review & GIVEAWAY

Sketch and then paint watercolor flowers! This is Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers: Discover Techniques for Creating Realistic Florals and Plants in Pencil and Watercolor by Kyehyun Park. She is a Korean illustrator and author based in LA. You may know her as urbankate_in_ca on Instagram. Her book is about learning to paint flowers in watercolor from sketch to painting. Learn about the materials you need to begin drawing and painting including pencil, watercolor paint, paper and brushes. She reveals her simple three-step method of drawing flowers. Using a single daffodil bloom as an example she takes you though the steps one by one. This three step method is used throughout her book to draw numerous flowers from different angles and perspectives. It will help you to sketch flowers realistically and quickly. Learn a variety of watercolor basics such as - brush, painting and color techniques. These are the techniques that will help you get the effects you want in your paintings. This section includes quite a few practical exercises. Use what you've learned in eleven watercolor projects. These projects begin with simple flowers and gradually move on to more complex flower clusters, fruits and potted plants. This section provides generous practice at creating your own sketches in pencil and then painting them in watercolor. All the exercises and projects referred to above are clearly laid out. The material is presented in small steps with the opportunity of following along. Each step is well-explained and accompanied by a photograph of the process. This book will appeal to anyone who wants to develop a solid foundation of drawing and painting flowers. Your skills will improve by learning about the materials, techniques and practice, practice, practice. See excerpts and the complete table of contents below. Quarry Books released this 128 page paperback on June 14 2022. Get your copy below!

C O N T E N T S

Introduction

MATERIALS

Watercolor

Palettes

Brushes

Watercolor Paper

Other Materials

HOW TO SKETCH FLOWERS IN THREE SIMPLE STEPS

Sketching Basics

The Three-Step Sketch

BASIC WATERCOLOR TECHNIQUES

Watercolor Density Levels

Brush Techniques

Watercolor Painting Techniques

Color

SIMPLE FLOWERS

Cosmos

Lily

Balloon Flower

Hibiscus

FLOWER CLUSTERS

Canola Flower

Lily of the Valley

Hydrangea

Foxglove

FRUITS AND POTTED PLANTS

Orange Blossom

Olive Branch

Potted Pilea

Resources

Acknowledgements

About the author

Index

  

Back cover.

Introduction

Enjoy the process rather that the result.

Start with easy steps.

Learn how to sketch.

Cosmos flower drawn in three steps.

Rose drawn in three steps.

Canola flower.

Hydrangea.

Olive branch.

The Quarto Group has generously offered to giveaway a copy! One winner will be selected at random. Open until August 25, 2022. Canadian and USA addresses only. Good luck!

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