Flowers in Watercolour comprises 10 tutorials for painting beautiful flowers and arrangements for the absolute beginner.Offering essential advice, techniques and inspiration presented through step-by-step instruction and a variety of templates, this comprehensive guide teaches aspiring artists how to paint flowers with confidence.
The book includes 10 subjects to paint, including wildflowers, garden favorites and exotic blooms. It also contains ‘focus on’ spreads that provide greater detail and more advanced techniques to try. It is designed to act not only as a guide to flower painting, but an introduction to the medium of watercolor.
Tutorials include daisies, peonies, lilies, ferns, ivy, wildflowers, and poppies.
Introduction 8
Equipment and Materials 10
Colour and Tone 16
Composition 18
Sketching and Drawing 20
Basic Watercolour Techniques 22
Moon-Daisy Meadow 26
Sweet Sunshine Lily 32
Windswept Japanese Anemones 38
Focus On Floral Arrangements 44
Winter Hellebores with Ferns and Ivy 46
Peonies in a Glass Jar 52
Focus On Wild Flowers 58
Wistful Wild Flowers 60
Sunset Poppies 66
Hummingbird Fuchsias 72
Focus On Painting White Flowers 78
Signs of Spring 80
Bramble Ramble 86
Glossary 92
Suppliers 93
About the Authors 94
Acknowledgements 94
Index 95
Lois Davidson is an English watercolour artist with over 40 years of experience. She has been painting professionally since 2020 and was shortlisted for the Jackson's Painting Prize in 2021. She offers painting tutorials and more learning-based watercolour workshops on Patreon, and she runs a popular online art community. She sells her paintings across the world and exhibits her work locally and online.
Morgaine Davidson is an avid creative with a passion for art and wildlife. Since graduating from university with a masters degree in English & Creative Writing, she has worked in a variety of different mediums, experimenting with combining art and the written word. She has penned articles for Jacksons Art Blog, and her fiction has been shortlisted for a number of prizes, including the Mslexia Best Womens Short Fiction Competition 2023. She currently teaches water-colour painting online via YouTube and Patreon, specialising in capturing the liminal beauty of the natural world.
Together, Lois and Morgaine run a successful YouTube channel which boasts over 115,000 subscribers and demonstrates traditional and experimental watercolour techniques.
