Wendy Tait shares her passion for watercolours and shows how to capture the beauty and delicacy of a stunning selection of flowers.Inspired by the pleasure of the paint, brush and paper, she uses a series of demonstrations to illustrate her techniques - from initial transparent misty background washes to adding final tiny details. As she overlays the colours the flowers emerge - fuchsia, cyclamen, roses, and more. The qualities of the medium allows her to create light, transparent colours of daffodils and primroses, or the deep, vibrant tones of anemones and tulips. Whatever your skill level, you will be able to develop your own style with this invaluable easy-to-follow guide.

Flowers in Watercolour (Step-by-Step Leisure Arts)

Arts & Photography

Tait, Wendy

History & Criticism

Search Press

A richly illustrated step-by-step guide packed with techniques, tips and inspirational paintings. Misty landscapes, vibrant flowers, mountain lakes and sunlit lanes -- these and many more subjects are presented in this practical, easy-to-follow book, in which a selection of well-known artists interpret what they see. They discuss and illustrate everything in a lively, informative way, with expert guidance on all aspects of watercolour painting from laying washes and dry brash techniques to creating beautiful pictures full of light and atmosphere.
This book teaches you all you need to know to 'get started', with practical, detailed step-by-step demonstrations, inspirational paintings and plenty of advice on how to keep your work full of freshness and vitality.
Working with Watercolour takes the best of the Step-by-Step Leisure Arts watercolour books and presents, a Comprehensive, colourful course for beginners and for more experienced artists.

Working With Watercolour

NEWTON, William

Smith, Ray Campbell

Thatcher, Bryan A.

Bolton, Richard

Halliday, Frank

Barrass, Jackie

Painting

Search Pr Ltd

This book showcases bestselling author Wendy Tait's fresh, loose and inspirational flowers in watercolour. Enjoy using your paints to their fullest in producing fresh, loose paintings with Wendy's relaxing and reassuring approach. Learn about colour, tone and composition, and benefit from Wendy's lifetime of painting experience with troubleshooting tips, hints to improve your painting, and information on combining watercolours with other media for bright, stunning results. * Dozens of popular flowers including roses, lilies, anemones, poppies, cherry blossom, delphiniums and fuchsias * Fresh approaches to painting: loose impressionistic flowers, wildflower landscapes, garden arrangements and gorgeous close-ups * Fast, effective and approachable techniques

Wendy Tait's How to Paint Flowers in Watercolour

A comprehensive beginner's guide to the massively popular art of painting flowers in watercolor, including many techniques, styles and subjects. Be inspired to paint beautiful flowers in watercolor by the four respected artists featured in this comprehensive guide. Each artist has their own, individual style, and provides detailed instruction on the tools, materials and techniques they use, easy-to-follow step-by-step projects and numerous examples of their work to inspire you. Learn about painting wild flowers, including composition, sketching and painting backgrounds, and improve your flower portraits with Wendy Tait. There's a fascinating section on light in flower painting by Jackie Barrass, and an exploration of creative techniques with Richard Bolton. Finally, Ann Mortimer guides you through flowers in the landscape with four stunning projects. With 12 gorgeous projects in total to choose from, this highly practical book will provide all the instruction and inspiration you need to create amazing watercolour flower paintings in a range of styles. This book uses material previously published in the highly successful Step-by-Step Leisure Arts series and the Watercolour Tips and Techniques series.

Watercolour Flowers Step-by-Step (Step-by-Step Leisure Arts)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Mortimer, Ann

How To Create Comics & Manga

60 beautiful, inspirational painting projects provide inspiration for the watercolor artist.\nThe Watercolour Sourcebook is a compilation of four selected titles from the What to Paint series, chosen specially to illustrate numerous scenes that can be conveyed in watercolour. 
The works of four master watercolourists – Geoff Kersey, Terry Harrison, Peter Woolley and Wendy Tait – are brought together in a collection of 60 beautiful, detailed projects on the subjects of trees, woodlands and forests; landscapes; hills and mountains and flowers respectively. Each project results in a full painting that is accompanied at the end of the book by a full-size outline that can be copied and applied to the artist's own watercolour paper using tracedown. 
The Watercolour Sourcebook aims to provide a wealth of inspiration to the painter who struggles to decide upon their subject matter, and arms the artist with everything they need to know about what they're about to paint, from colour palette to useful techniques.

Watercolour Sourcebook, The: 60 inspiring pictures to transfer and paint with full-size outlines (Welcome Back Alice, 2)

Harrison, Terry

Kersey, Geoff

Woolley, Peter

Drawing

Keen to paint. but your drawing skills let you down? This book provides pull-out tracings for five beautiful floral paintings, along with full step-by-step instructions for how to bring them to life with watercolour paint. A clear guide on how to transfer the tracings to your watercolour paper is included, along with a helpful section on what materials to use. Wendy Tait's new book makes painting flowers simple and accessible, and offers guidance on how you can develop your new painting skills.

Ready to Paint Watercolour Flowers

Renowned flower painter Wendy Tait has created 24 beautiful paintings of flowers including tulips, daffodils and anemones, a posy of spring flowers, oriental poppies, roses and more.

Flowers in Watercolour (What to Paint)

Four renowned flower artists show how to paint beautiful paintings in watercolour and acrylics, and there are free pull-out outlines so that you can bypass the drawing stage. Wendy Tait uses transparent watercolour washes and luminous, glowing colours; Fiona Peart allows vibrant washes to run into each other in a spontaneous yet controlled way; Michael Lakin paints beautiful, detailed botanical studies; and Wendy Jelbert uses acrylics to paint lovely, varied flower studies. Learn to paint tulips, irises, poppies, sunflowers, roses and much more. Based on the following books published by Search Press: Ready to Paint: Watercolour Flowers by Wendy Tait Ready to Paint: Flowers in Acrylics by Wendy Jelbert Ready to Paint: Botanical Flowers by Michael Lakin Ready to Paint: Vibrant Flowers in Watercolour by Fiona Peart

Trace & Paint Flowers

Peart, Fiona

Jelbert, Wendy

Lakin, Michael

A comprehensive guide to the massively popular art of painting flowers in watercolour, including many techniques, styles and subjects.

Watercolour Flower Painting Step-By-Step

Wendy Tait shows how to capture the beauty and delicacy of a stunning selection of wild and garden flowers. Using step-by-step photographs and a variety of inspirational pictures, she clearly illustrates all the techniques – from laying misty background washes to overlaying colours and adding final details.

Flowers in Watercolour (Art Handbooks)

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