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    Watercolour flower portraits

    Watercolour flower portraits

    Showell, Billy, author, illustrator

    This volume presents several watercolour flower portraits. It contains information on drawing and painting techniques, colour mixing and composition. It offers numerous ideas for those who want to develop their flower painting skills, whether or not they have any previous experience

    Book. English.
    Published Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Search Press, 2014
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      Statement of responsibility: Billy Showell
      ISBN: 1782210822, 9781782210825
      Note: Originally published: 2006.
      Note: Includes index.
      Physical Description: 128 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 30 cm
      Subject: Watercolor painting Technique.; Botanical illustration.; Flowers in art.; Art and Design.

      Contents

      1. Introduction
      2. What you need
      3. Drawing
      4. Colour
      5. Techniques
      6. Light and shade
      7. White flowers
      8. Painting flowers in detail
      9. Painting leaves in detail
      10. Painting stems in detail
      11. Composition
      12. PROJECTS
      13. Slipper Orchid
      14. Green Goddess Lily
      15. Roses
      16. Delphinium
      17. Index

      Author note

      Billy Showellgraduated from St Martins School of Art with a B.A. in fashion design, but was irresistably drawn to painting and illustration. In 1993 she set course for a career as an artist and now paints, illustrates and teaches botanical painting at her studio and art clubs in the UK, USA and Australia. She lives in Tunbridge Wells, UK with her husband and two sons. Billy has been awarded five Certificates of Botanical Merit from the Society of Botanical Artists and her first book on watercolour flower portraits has been hugely successful in the UK and abroad. Billy's paintings are collected by her followers the world over and many are available as limited edition prints.