Contemporary Color Theory: Watercolor Flowers

Contemporary Color Theory: Watercolor Flowers

Author: Manushree Mishra

Publisher: Walter Foster

Published: 2022-07-05

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0760375038

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Contemporary Color Theory: Watercolor Flowers teaches beginning and aspiring artists the basics of color theory and color mixing, and includes step-by-step watercolor painting projects featuring beautiful florals.


Modern Watercolor

Modern Watercolor

Author: Kristin Van Leuven

Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing

Published: 2017-09-19

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1633225623

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From beautifully dynamic leaves, flowers, and trees to simple geometric shapes and patterns, Modern Watercolor provides a colorful and fun approach to working with watercolor. It’s time to get your feet wet with watercolors! This dynamic and inspirational guide will set you down a path of exploration as you learn to play with watercolors. Learn to use basic techniques and principles to create beautiful, expressive works of art. With Modern Watercolor, discover how to paint in watercolor by harnessing the medium's unique transparent qualities to create stunning works of art, stationery, gifts, and more. From selecting your first watercolor paints to learning to blend colors into a unique palette, we are here to guide you as you begin your journey. By the end, your paintings will be cohesive and rich. The easy-to-follow lessons explore using watercolor on different surfaces, how to create basic shapes using fun techniques, and how to create myriad gorgeous effects that can be achieved with different brushes and strokes. You can even learn how to add layers of dimension and texture, as well as how to work with resist techniques to create pretty patterns and gorgeous backgrounds. Whether you're an experienced artist seeking a playful escape or a beginner who has never held a paintbrush, there's something for everyone in Modern Watercolor.


Painting Flowers with Impact in Watercolor

Painting Flowers with Impact in Watercolor

Author: Julie Collins

Publisher: David & Charles

Published: 2005-04-01

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780715317891

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A practical guide to flower painting offers insight into the techniques utilized by the author, discussing such topics as materials, color mixing, and the creative process, in a volume that features step-by-step demonstrations and a gallery of one hundred finished works. Original.


Everyday Watercolor

Everyday Watercolor

Author: Jenna Rainey

Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0399579737

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A contemporary paint-every-day watercolor guide that explores foundational strokes and patterns and then builds new skills upon the foundations over the course of 30 days to create finished pieces. This beautifully illustrated and inspiring guided watercolor-a-day book is perfect for beginning watercolor artists, artists who want to improve their watercolor skills, and visual creatives. From strokes to shapes, this book covers the basics and helps painters gain confidence in themselves along with inspiration to develop their own style over the course of 30 days. Featuring colorful contemporary art from Mon Voir design agency founder and Instagram trendsetter Jenna Rainey, this book's fresh perspective paints watercolor in a whole new light.


Glorious Garden Flowers in Watercolor

Glorious Garden Flowers in Watercolor

Author: Susan Harrison-Tustain

Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media

Published: 2021-05-07

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781635619508

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Paint brilliant floral watercolors with internationally acclaimed artist Susan Harrison-Tustain as she shares her unique approach to capturing the essence of natural settings. A must for those wishing to create art that resonates with beauty.


Flower Colour Theory

Flower Colour Theory

Author: Darroch Putnam

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-08

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9781838662356

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Leading floral designers Putnam & Putnam are back - now with the ultimate flower-arrangement reference book The follow-up to Darroch and Michael Putnam's acclaimed bestselling debut, Flower Colour Theoryis the only guide that uses colour theory as inspiration for flower arrangements. The book features 175 arrangements that show myriad ways to combine flowers of different hues, all built around colour schemes including analogous, complementary, monochromatic, triadic, transitional, and accent colours. Flower Colour Theoryis both inspirational and a guide to creating lush, romantic, and effortlessly elegant creations of your own.


Painting Florals with Gouache

Painting Florals with Gouache

Author: Vidhi Khandelwal

Publisher: Page Street Publishing

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781645671282

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Vidhi Khandelwal takes readers step-by-step through the process she uses to create her beautiful signature floral illustrations. Brighter and more vibrant than watercolors, gouache is easy to work with, especially for beginners, and provides a quick, dramatic result. Vidhi teaches readers to make the most of these richly pigmented paints, showing them how to create highlights, shadows and all the details in between. Vidhi helps readers step away from the screen and incorporate nature and creativity into busy everyday life. She covers popular blooms such as peonies, daisies, lavender and foxgloves, as well as trendy succulents and colorful tropical botanicals. Each project features a sketch on high-quality art paper, making it easy for readers to dive right in and practice their painting skills. Vidhi also includes a primer on the hugely popular art of floral lettering, so readers can use their skills to incorporate flower imagery into letters and words for cards, décor and more.


Flower Colour Guide

Flower Colour Guide

Author: Darroch Putnam

Publisher: Phaidon

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 9780714878300

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More than anything else, colour is how people instinctively think about flowers — whether planning for a wedding, commemorating an occasion, or looking for an easy way to bring life into a space. With 400 gorgeously photographed cut flowers organized to span the full spectrum of shades, Flower Colour Guide is the essential tool for flower selection and arrangement, and a primer to understanding and appreciating flowers and colour. 'This is the book we wish we had to help us before we started,' say authors Darroch and Michael Putnam, the duo behind New York's leading floral design studio, Putnam & Putnam.


Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green

Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green

Author: Michael Wilcox

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780958789196

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For more than 200 years the world has accepted that red, yellow and blue - the artists primaries - give new colours when mised. And for more than 200 years artists have been struggling to mix colours on this basis. In this exciting new book, Michael Wilcox offers a total reassessment of the principles underlying colour mixing. It is the first major break-away from the traditional and limited concepts that have caused painters and others who work with colour so many problems. Back Cover.