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Learn to paint tropical watercolor flowers and foliage in simple steps with this free and easy approach to watercolor 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 color 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, personalized gifts and more.
Price: $22.99
Pages: 160
Publisher: David & Charles
Imprint: David & Charles
Series: DIY Watercolor
Publication Date:
28 April 2020
Trim Size: 10.00 X 8.50 in
ISBN: 9781446308134
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Art techniques & principles, Painting & art manuals
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.
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