Overview
The Kew Book of Drawing Flowers is a step-by-step guide to drawing flowers by botanical illustrator Bianca Giarola. As a self-taught artist, this book collects everything Bianca wished she knew when she first started drawing flowers, encouraging readers to practice directly on their preferred medium (sketchbook, paper, and so on). From the most basic to the more intricate blooms, each project increases in difficulty and teaches a new fundamental technique, making it perfect for beginners wanting to gain a complete understanding of how to draw flowers. Readers will be able to use what they've learned right away in their own art projects, be it home prints, journals and stationery.
Full Product Details
Author: Bianca Giarola
Publisher: Search Press Ltd
Imprint: Search Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781800922273
ISBN 10: 1800922272
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 29 February 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This is a great book, I have wanted to learn to draw flowers for a long, long time. This is the book that works for me. I have shared a picture of my first attempt. Highly recommend this book to anyone. Also the cover is insanely beautiful! -- Emma Taylor * Customer Review *
This is a great book, I have wanted to learn to draw flowers for a long, long time. This is the book that works for me. I have shared a picture of my first attempt. Highly recommend this book to anyone. Also the cover is insanely beautiful! -- Emma Taylor * Customer Review * Based in Verona, Italy, botanical illustrator Bianca Giarola is passionate about drawing and inspired by nature. Using a mixture of realism and imagination, The Kew Book of Drawing Flowers includes everything Bianca wishes she had known when she first started drawing flowers. Starting with basic flowers, each project increases in difficulty as you progress through the book, adding new techniques as you go. The results are intended to use as you wish, either as artworks in themselves or for your own art projects, journals and stationery. -- The Leisure Painter * Issue 648 *
Author Information
Bianca Giarola is a botanical illustrator based in Verona, Italy. Passionate about drawing since her childhood, she found her calling while working as a marketing manager in a communication agency in Milan. Her work is inspired by nature in all its blooms, translated on paper in a mixture of realism and pure imagination. She has taught hundreds of people in live workshops through her Instagram account @bicreativelab, where she has built an engaged community of artists and flower lovers.
