This complete beginner’s guide to painting flowers in watercolour is ideal if you want to learn to paint but are short on time. Each of the 35 quick and easy paintings takes no more than 30 minutes to complete, and will teach you how to paint flowers of different shapes, colours and families – lilies, orchids and hellebores amongst others – or learn a key technique such as masking out, working wet in wet and mixing colours. The paintings are all worked at postcard size – ideal for a 6 x 4in (A6) watercolour pad, and tracings are included for each study. Each painting is a work of art in its own right, and can be stored in your portfolio for reference later, or framed and displayed to impress your friends. The book is broken down into five chapters that focus on working with watercolour, watercolour techniques, colour and tone, form and detail, and finally flowers in context. The final section of the book contains three complete paintings that demonstrate how to combine all the techniques and elements you’ve gleaned from the preceding chapters. These paintings, too, are accompanied by actual-size tracings. Key Selling Points Ideal if you want to learn to paint flowers but are short on time 35 quick and easy exercises The paintings are accompanied by actual-size tracings.

About The Author

Ann is a professional watercolour artist and tutor. She started her working life as a French teacher having gained a degree in European Studies at UEA and a PGCE from Southampton University. She had always had a passion for drawing and painting and in 1990, with her children in Secondary school, she took up a study of watercolour painting and was soon selling her work and designs for greetings cards and mug wraps. She became a member of the Society of Floral Painters with whom she exhibited annually. Ann has demonstrated for art societies around the country, has held workshops in her garden studio at home and run painting holidays. She regularly designs greetings cards for Medici cards. Ann has written several articles for Leisure Painter and in 2014 produced a watercolour techniques video. She now continues to share her skills with watercolour demonstrations on her website blog, on social media and YouTube. Ann’s love of painting has always gone hand in hand with a love of flowers and gardening, each activity complementing the other. Ann has three grown up children and lives in Nottinghamshire with her husband. For more information please visit www.annmortimerart.com

• Publisher: Search Press
• Edition: BC Paperback With 35 tracings
• Publication: 24 June 2017
• ISBN 13/EAN: 9781782215196
• Size: 216×280 mm
• Illustrations: 500
• Pages: 96
• RRP: £12.99