Watercolour Fruit & Vegetable Portraits - Brossura

Showell, Billy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1782210830 ISBN 13: 9781782210832

Casa editrice: Search Pr Ltd, 2014

Riassunto

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Learn how to paint realistic fruit, vegetables and blossom with this beautifully illustrated watercolour course.
Billy Showell's amazing paintings and vibrant palette are showcased here as she clearly explains how to create a huge selection of shapes and textures using detailed step-by-step instructions. Starting with basic techniques and use of colour, she shows how to capture the individuality of spiralling artichokes, the smooth contours of aubergines, the sumptuous reds of glossy peppers, the cool yellows of bananas, the subtle hues of blossom and more. Using traditional methods, overlaying washes, dry brush techniques, glazing, masking - she develops pictures that are exciting and different, sometimes with an unconventional and amusing twist that takes the images on to new, contemporary levels. Explanations on drawing, composition, lighting, painting white subjects are included, along with many different ideas and dozens of useful and helpful tips.

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L'autore:

Billy Showell graduated from St Martins School of Art with a B.A. in fashion design, but was irresistably drawn to painting and illustration. In 1993 she set course for a career as an artist and now paints, illustrates and teaches botanical painting at her studio and art clubs in the UK, USA and Australia. She lives in Tunbridge Wells, UK with her husband and two sons. Billy has been awarded five Certificates of Botanical Merit from the Society of Botanical Artists and her first book on watercolour flower portraits has been hugely successful in the UK and abroad. Billy's paintings are collected by her followers the world over and many are available as limited edition prints.

Product Description:

This beautiful book by Billy Showell is exquisitely executed and includes wonderful watercolour portraits of fruit and vegetables, some with an unconventional, often amusing, twist to traditional botanical studies.

The book is packed full of useful information, expert advice and guidance on materials, and Billy takes you through you through what you need to get started, composition and colour mixing. She also covers an array of painting techniques, such as wet-into-wet, lifting out, how to use masking fluid and how to strengthen colour and much much more.

Billy also looks at light and shade before demonstrating how to tackle the challenging subject of painting white onto white plus flowers and blossom. She then takes you through four stunning step-by-step projects, which include Kohlrabi, a Pumpkin, a Lemon and a Heart of Berries.

This wonderful book of beautiful paintings will guide and inspire you.enabling you to take your paintings to a whole new and exciting contemporary level.

Search Press . Hardback . 128 pages . Colour throughout

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• Editore: Search Pr Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1782210830
• ISBN 13: 9781782210832
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128