Overview

The follow up to the bestselling DIY Watercolor Flowers, featuring step-by-step tutorials for on-trend botanical leaves and tropical flowers in ever-popular watercolours. Learn to paint tropical watercolour flowers and foliage in simple steps with this free and easy approach to watercolour painting for beginners. Marie Boudon's beautifully presented creative course will get you started in this expressive and fun medium. Find out about the essential materials you need, learn about colour mixing for an on-trend jungle palette, get expert tips on transparency, overlays and negative space, discover ideas for compositions and then work step-by-step through over 20 tutorials for jungle plants and flowers. From palm trees, monstera leaves and other jungle foliage to tropical flowers such as hibiscus, bird of paradise and anthurium, you'll find easy exercises and inspiring ideas for jungle-themed art, which is a huge trend in interiors and surface pattern design. Along the way, be inspired by Marie's gorgeous ideas for presenting the finished work as art pieces, journal pages, handmade stationery and greetings cards, inspirational quote frames, personalised gifts and more. AUTHOR: Marie Boudon is a completely self-taught artist and creative living in Paris, France. With an engineering background, she has built a program of online workshops under her own brand tribulationsdemarie. SELLING POINTS: . Taps into the strong trend for jungle foliage and tropical flowers in interior and surface pattern design. . The follow-up to the bestselling DIY Watercolor Flowers. . Includes full step-by-step tutorials for over 20 tropical flowers and leaves as well as ideas for presenting your work as wall art, handmade stationery, postcards, greetings cards, sketchbook and journal pages.

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Author:   Marie Boudon (Author)
Publisher:   David & Charles
Imprint:   David & Charles
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Width: 21.70cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 25.60cm
Weight:   0.676kg
ISBN:  

9781446308134

ISBN 10:   1446308138
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   24 April 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   French

Table of Contents

Foreword CHAPTER 1: Basic techniques Essential materials Extra-fine colors Creating a color chart Water usage Mixing colors Jungle palettes Mastering transparency Working in the wet Experimenting with overlays Negative painting Keeping brushwork fluid Ideas for compositions Ideas for framing My method CHAPTER 2: Jungle plants Banana tree Swiss cheese plant Palm tree Other jungle plants A varying pattern Transparent jungle Other ideas CHAPTER 3: Tropical flowers Hibiscus Bird of paradise Heliconia Torch ginger Ginger flower Pincushion protea Anthurium Tropical border Bouquet CHAPTER 4: Urban jungle plants Variegated plants Pilea Caladium Calathea orbifolia Other ideas Index

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Marie Boudon is a completely self-taught artist and creative living in Paris, France. With an engineering background, she has built a program of online workshops under her own brand tribulationsdemarie.

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