The Modern Flower Painter: Creating vibrant botanical portraits in watercolour - Hardcover

Mason, Anna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844488632 ISBN 13: 9781844488636

Publisher: Search Press, 2014

Synopsis

Anna Mason's exceptional floral artwork has won awards from the Royal Horticultural Society, International Artist magazine and seen her elected to the prestigious Society of Botanical Artists. In this book, she shares her innovative watercolour technique so that you can paint flowers in her clean, crisp style.

The book covers every aspect of painting modern botanical-style portraits of flowers, from tips on gathering your reference to Anna's six stage watercolour process. There are instructions on setting up your studio and how to produce the detailed drawings. Each of the six step-by-step projects is accompanied by an outline drawing, tonal notes and useful colour swatches so that you can compare the tone and hue of your mixes to Anna's own. This all builds into a fantastic guide that will inspire and challenge the experienced watercolour artist, while drawing in and reassuring the complete beginner.

About this title

About the Author

Anna Mason grew up surrounded by the lush English countryside and has always been inspired by the intricate detail and colourful beauty in the natural world.

Completely self-taught, Anna has developed a true-to-life painting style that she wants to share in order to get as many people as possible enjoying the therapeutic benefits of watercolour painting and achieving the results they want. An elected member of the Society of Botanical Artists, Anna has won several awards for her work, including the Royal Horticultural Society’s Gold Medal. Her paintings are held in prominent public collections and she has taught and exhibited widely in the UK and US, including at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show.

Her popular blog has inspired prospective painters from all over the world to pick up their brushes: she has now taught more than 15,000 people from over 100 countries. Take a free video class and join Anna’s online painting school and community at: www.NatureStudio.com or find her at:

• @AnnaMasonArt on Instagram
• @NatureStudioTV on YouTube
• Anna Mason Art on Facebook

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• Author is an exciting, well-respected watercolour artist and tutor
• Detailed techniques sections and six clear step-by-step projects
• Highly illustrated

Edition details

• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844488632
• ISBN 13: 9781844488636
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128