Ready to Paint in 30 Minutes: Flowers in Watercolour Paperback by Ann Mortimer

Product Details

• Publisher: Search Press (2017-07-24)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 96 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781782215196
• Item Weight: 508.88 grams
• Dimensions: 11.06 x 8.56 x 0.36 cm

Paint stunning watercolor flowers in just 30 minutes with over 30 quick and easy exercises for 6 x 4 pads—plus 3 full-size projects.

Includes tracings for every project, making this the perfect watercolor book for beginners!

This guide will teach you how to paint watercolor flowers of different shapes, colors, and families using a variety of key techniques. In 5 chapters, you’ll find:
 
• 35 exercises ideal for 6 x 4 watercolor pads that take just 30 minutes to complete
• How to work with watercolor
• How to use watercolor techniques for special effects
• How to master color and tone
• How to paint flower form and detail
• How to paint watercolor flowers in context (vases, woodlands, etc.)
• 3 full-size painting projects combining all learned techniques and elements
• Tracings for each watercolor flower painting—no drawing necessary!
 
Featuring poppies, magnolias, hydrangeas, lilies, tulips, roses, and many more, this is the ultimate workbook for beginner watercolor painters who are short on time!

About the Author

Ann Mortimer is a professional artist and watercolour tutor. She received no formal art training after A level Art at school, and instead studied for a degree in European Studies at UEA. After completing a PGCE at Southampton university, she became a French teacher. Later, she retrained to do infant teaching and so her students have ranged from age 5 to 85. In 1990 she was able to rekindle a lifelong love of painting and drawing. She became fascinated by the medium of watercolour and was soon exhibiting and selling her work. She has had work commissioned for greetings cards and mug wraps. Ann is a member of the Society of Floral Painters with whom she exhibits regularly. In 2008 she was awarded the Popular Choice Salver at the SFP annual exhibition at Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire. Ann now runs watercolour workshops in her Garden Studio at home and is a popular teacher for art societies around the country. She has written several articles for Leisure Painter magazine. Ann lives in Nottinghamshire with her husband. She has three grown up children and loves gardening and all things French.