DIY Watercolor Flowers : The beginner's guide to flower painting for journal pages, handmade stationery and more

About the book

Learn to paint beautiful watercolor flowers in simple steps with this free and easy approach to watercolor painting for beginners. Marie Boudon's beautifully presented creative course will give you a good grounding in this new-to-you medium and teach you all you need to know to get started with painting flowers in watercolor. Find out about paper, brushes and paints, color mixing, wet and dry techniques, blending and gradients, contrast and even how to digitize your work. Then learn to paint roses, peonies, carnations, dahlias, anemones, poppies, leaves, details and textures and how to bring all of these together into beautiful compositions which make lovely art pieces, journal pages, handmade stationery and greetings cards, inspirational quote frames, personalized gifts and more.

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"[T]his content provides a DIY method for aspiring watercolor artists to get started, practice, and refine their skills. ... Given the popularity of hand-decorated bullet journals, print-on-demand websites where individuals can sell objects featuring their own original artwork, and the current cultural affinity for watercolor art, this book is likely to be popular in many communities." --Booklist

Marie Boudon Biography

An engineer by training, Marie Boudon decided in 2017 to launch her activity around watercolor, a medium that fascinates her. She now offers video lessons on her site Les Tribulations de Marie. Reconciling work and passion, learning on your own and professionalizing your art has not always been easy. When she discovered that her questions were shared by many artists, she had the idea to write this book. ... Read full biography