Simply Paint Flowers: 25 Inspiring Designs in Easy Steps

Description

Be amazed at how easily you can paint beautiful flowers in simple steps. Artist Becky Amelia shares her easy-to-follow approach to painting, with a range of beautiful flowers in her distinctive and contemporary style. Using only a few brushes and a small collection of watercolour and gouache paints, this book will inspire you with 25 stunning step-by-step projects to paint, including single flowers, leaves, wreaths and bouquets. Learn to paint sunflowers, tulips, poppies, lilies, wildflower arrangements, dried flowers and many more pretty stem arrangements. Feel inspired by Becky's intricate and delicate style and create beautiful floral paintings that you too could turn into gorgeous notecards, stationery, gifts or to keep as lovely, framed paintings.

Becky Amelia is an illustrator inspired by all things botanical. She has enjoyed painting and drawing for as long as she can remember, but art took a backseat while she studied Mathematics at university and then worked in a job she loved after graduating. In 2018, her passion for painting was rekindled and Becky started to paint every single day, teaching herself new techniques and refining her style over time. She set up her Instagram account @beckyamelia_art to share her painting journey with an amazing community of fellow illustrators and artists across the world. Inspired by nature in all its forms, her favourite subjects to paint are flowers, leaves, fruits and vegetables. While pregnant with her son, Becky set up her website www.bybeckyamelia.co.uk and her Etsy shop ByBeckyAmelia, and started designing botanical prints and illustrated stationery, which she now sells worldwide. Becky lives in Cornwall, UK and spends her days happily juggling motherhood, painting and running her art business. This is her first book.

This is not just a beautiful looking book, but it is also inspirational for those aspiring to create paintings of flowers. Becky Amelia's writing is clear and conversational and the steps are easy to follow. A must for artists of all ages and a joy for the coffee table! -- Eleanor Ransom * Amazon Customer Review * I love this book! Ideal for creating simple flowers that can be used for repeat patterns, logos etc. Whilst this book is aimed at those creating flowers using conventional paint, it would equally be useful for designing digitally using an iPad or similar. A great, practical step-by-step guide to creating simple but effective floral designs. -- Valerie Harrison * Amazon Customer Review * Artist, Becky Amelia, shows us how to paint a range of flowers - from single stems to wreaths and bouquets - in a contemporary style. Using just a few brushes and a small collection of watercolour and gouache paints, there are 25 step-by-step projects to work through and plenty of helpful advice aimed at the complete beginner. * Leisure Painter * Even the most avid stitchers need to take a break from time to time, so why not keep things interesting with the help of this new release? As its title suggests Simply Paint Flowers is an accessible guide to watercolour, with artist Becky Amelia focusing on the process of painting flowers. From tulips and poppies to dried blooms and wildflower arrangements, there are 25 step-by-step projects for you to explore. You can then turn your finished artwork into gorgeous notecards, stationery and gifts. * Sew Magazine, March 2023 *