Billy Showell's NEW book is truly stunning!
Billy's inspiring watercolour flower portraits have earned her the respect of watercolour artists all over the world and now she is sharing them with you in this comprehensive A to Z guide.
In this book Billy shows you how to complete beautiful flower portraits with the same degree of accuracy as traditional botanical paintings but with a unique contemporary feel.
In the book Billy guides you through 40 flower portraits, each one is accompanied by small studies, details, colour mixes and step-by-step instructions.
Search Press. Hardback. 128 pages. Colour throughout
Author: Billy Showell
ISBN: 9781844484522
This beautiful book by Billy Showell is exquisitely executed and includes wonderful watercolour portraits of fruit and vegetablessome with an unconventional, often amusing, twist to traditional botanical studies.
The book is packed full of useful information, expert advice and guidance on materials, and Billy takes you through you through what you need to get started, composition and colour mixing. She also covers an array of painting techniques, such as wet-into-wet, lifting out, how to use masking fluid and how to strengthen colour and much much more.
Billy also looks at light and shade before demonstrating how to tackle the challenging subject of painting white onto white plus flowers and blossom. She then takes you through four stunning step-by-step projects, which include Kohlrabi, a Pumpkin, a Lemon and a Heart of Berries.
This wonderful book of beautiful paintings will guide and inspire you...enabling you to take your paintings to a whole new and exciting contemporary level.
Search Press. Hardback. 128 pages. Colour throughout
Author: Billy Showell
ISBN: 9781844482726