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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 favourites 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 watercolour. Tutorials include daisies, peonies, lilies, ferns, ivy, wildflowers, and poppies. AUTHOR: Lois Davidson is a watercolour artist from the South-East of England, with over 40 years of experience. She has been painting professionally since 2020, and was shortlisted for the Jackson's Painting Prize in 2021. Her creative interests are focused primarily around her local coastal landscapes, from which she draws constant inspiration. She now runs a successful YouTube art channel alongside her daughter, demonstrating traditional and experimental watercolour techniques, with a focus on loose landscape painting. Her art is her way of connecting with overlooked areas within the landscape through the medium of ink and watercolour. Alongside her painting tutorials, Lois also runs a popular art community online, offering guidance and more in-depth learning opportunities. She has exhibited her work locally, and her paintings have sold around the globe.

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Written by the creators of the hit YouTube channel Lois & Morgaine Davidson Art, this book teaches artists to capture the delicate beauty of blooms. From wildflowers to exotic garden favourites, this guide offers step-by-step instruction, essential techniques and inspiration, helping beginners and enthusiasts alike paint flowers with confidence and bring luminous watercolour compositions vividly to life. * Artists & Illustrators magazine *

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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 master's 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 Jackson's Art Blog, and her fiction has been shortlisted for a number of prizes, including the Mslexia Best Women's 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.

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