Ready to Paint: Watercolour Flowers
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Ready to Paint: Watercolour Flowers by Wendy Tait
Provides pull-out tracings for five floral paintings, along with instructions for how to bring them to life with watercolour paint. This book offers guidance on how to transfer the tracings to watercolour paper, along with a section on what materials to use.June 08
People often want to take up painting when they retire and have more timeOthers start sooner, once their kids are grown and in school. The drawing part of painting can be hard for beginners – enough of an obstacle so they give up or never get past painting by numbers.
My friends who paint have always had a natural ability. They drew as children. I don’t have that at all. Now two new books promise to make watercolor painting easier for beginners by following what I call an old-but-new approach.
The “Ready to Paint” series from Search Press in England is designed so that novice painters can pick up a brush and create appealing paintings with easy-to-follow tracings. The tracings can be reused. The idea is that you gain confidence as your hand-eye coordination is trained, by following the tracings, while you have some pleasing results to motivate you to keep trying.
“Watercolour Flowers” by Wendy Tait has nine reusable tracings to pull out. “Watercolour Landscapes” by Terry Harrison has six reusable tracings to pull out. Both are to be published in June.
The artists explain how to compose a painting with simple instructions and tips. Both Tait and Harrison are authors as well as artists.
* A Good Age *Wendy Tait studied at the Joseph Wright School of Art. She now teaches watercolour painting to adults, runs residential courses and often gives demonstrations to Art Societies. She produces designs for publication as greetings cards, and in 1998 was commissioned by the Jersey government to produce a series of autumn flower paintings for postage stamps. She has also written articles and produced illustrations for specialist art magazines.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781844482849 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844482847 |
| Title | Ready to Paint: Watercolour Flowers |
| Author | Wendy Tait |
| Series | Ready To Paint |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Search Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-02-05 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Prizes | Winner of Independent Publishing Awards: Nielsen Innovation of the Year 2010 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |