DIY Watercolor Flowers: The beginner's guide to flower painting for journal pages, handmade stationery and more

Description

A beautifully illustrated guide to painting watercolour flowers for the absolute beginner, those looking for ways to decorate journal pages and create their own unique handmade gifts. Learn to paint beautiful watercolour flowers in simple steps with this free and easy approach to watercolour painting for beginners. Marie Boudon's beautifully presented creative course will give you a good grounding in this new-to-you medium and teach you all you need to know to get started with painting flowers in watercolour. Find out about paper, brushes and paints, colour mixing, wet and dry techniques, blending and gradients, contrast and even how to digitise your work. Then learn to paint roses, peonies, carnations, dahlias, anemones, poppies, leaves, details and textures and how to bring all of these together into beautiful compositions which make lovely art pieces, journal pages, handmade stationery and greetings cards, inspirational quote frames, personalised gifts and more. AUTHOR: Marie Boudon is a completely self-taught artist and creative living in Paris, France. With an engineering background, she has built a program of online workshops under her own brand tribulationsdemarie. SELLING POINTS: . The craze for journaling has inspired a renewed interest in watercolour as a means to decorate journal pages - this book speaks to that audience and to the new wave of beginner painters inspired by the mindfulness movement. . This accessible technique makes watercolour painting achievable to everyone, and is presented in a beautiful package that will appeal to creatives of all kinds outside of the established art community.

Marie Boudon is a completely self-taught artist and creative living in Paris, France. With an engineering background, she has built a program of online workshops under her own brand tribulationsdemarie.

"[T]his content provides a DIY method for aspiring watercolor artists to get started, practice, and refine their skills. ... Given the popularity of hand-decorated bullet journals, print-on-demand websites where individuals can sell objects featuring their own original artwork, and the current cultural affinity for watercolor art, this book is likely to be popular in many communities." --Booklist